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  DVD Reviews | Gunman In The Streets
A strange confluence of talents and an odd moment in history are as responsible as anything else for the English-language Gunman in the Streets, (1950), a hardboiled, occasionally thrilling, and visually entrancing Franco-American crime thriller that for some unknown reason, was never distributed theatrically in the United States.
Gunman in the Streets has a plot, though like most plots, it serves mostly to distract us from a movie’s more honest virtues.
The problem with Gunman in the Streets is that, unless and until Schüfftan finds other settings worthy of Signoret, there’s not much of anything going on.
www.henrysheehan.com /dvd/ghi/gunman.html   (1698 words)

  
 Gunman in the Streets
Like other Gallic noirs (Le Jour Se Leve (1939), Panique, 1946), Gunman in the Streets is imbued with a romantic fatalism that conjures up the image of 'Apache' dancers (once a staple of French cabaret floor shows), roughneck lovers who sling each other around the dance floor in an abusive frenzy.
Allday's DVD presentation of Gunman in the Streets, which was never released theatrically in the United States, is taken from the 35mm fine grain master negative but includes few extras.
"Gunman in the Streets," a controversial noir made as a French-American co-production in 1950, was never released theatrically not has it ever been on video.
www.alldayentertainment.com /online-store/scstore/allday/gunman/reviews.html   (1722 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: Gunman in the Streets
Gunman in the Streets is a minor crime film.
All Day Entertainment has done a fine job on yet another rare film with this DVD of Gunman in the Streets, obtaining good original elements (an heir of the producer is listed as the copyright holder on the box) and producing a top-quality disc.
One of the excisions, the scene where Dane extracts a bullet from his arm (boy, he sure recovers quickly!) is almost a shot-for-shot replay of a similiar setup with Richard Basehart in He Walked by Night.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s394gun.html   (1324 words)

  
 Boy, five, is killed in street shooting
A FIVE-year-old boy was shot dead and his stepfather seriously injured as they walked along a street 90 yards from their home last night.
One neighbour said that he had seen the gunman cruising the streets nearby in the D-registered car minutes before the killing.
Police were examining the abandoned vehicle for clues to the driver as the hunt for the assassin continued.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/08/07/nboy07.html   (474 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com:Animated film on Web instructs how to blow up motorcades
The three-minute cartoon depicts tanks clanking down a street and a cartoon American soldier speaking with a "Rambo"-like accent before he is shot.
One gunman draws a tank's fire, forcing it to swivel its turret and then a second gunman, in a different position, blasts the tank with a rocket-propelled grenade.
The Arabic subtitles say it is a city "where the despot will pass." As a motorcade goes down a street, a speeding car darts out of a side street and rams into the middle of the convoy, blowing up several vehicles.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/22/70329_.html   (491 words)

  
 Oceanside unveils monument to fallen law enforcement officers | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Wilson died July 4, 1885, when he and his brother, also a city marshal, responded to the sound of gunshots.
Wilson saw the gunman, tried to stop him and was shot once.
Mugan was killed Sept. 24, 1916, by a drunken gunman wandering the streets.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040506/news_1m6cops.html   (307 words)

  
 nwFilmCenter | nowshowing
Tolly Devlin (Cliff Robertson) has his childhood cut short when his father is killed by a gang of neighborhood street toughs.
The wilting villianess spreads smallpox throughout the city while the authorities simultaneously seek the source of the epidemic and the smuggler of the diamonds, not knowing that they are in fact the same woman.
With an obscure premise that seems eerily contemporary, McEvoy's cold war artifact employs one of the stranger femme fatale characters of the genre.
www.nwfilm.org /archives/schedule_2005/mar_apr_may/nowshowing/noir_city   (1093 words)

  
 Ft. Worth Robbery Victim Chases, Shoots Suspect
The gunman finally caught the suspect in the 800 block of Taylor Street and stood over him with his gun drawn until off-duty North Richland Hills police officer Tim Gilpin, who lives in a nearby apartment, disarmed him.
The chase went north to West Seventh Street, west to Taylor Street as more shots were fired and then south on Taylor, where the suspect collapsed.
Macias does not have a permit to carry the gun but was leaving the county for a business trip early yesterday.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a376689c122e6.htm   (506 words)

  
 MEI: Iraq: craving stability
In general, the "resistance" has less success in attempting to wage guerrilla warfare in the countryside than by simply walking up to a soldier on the streets of Baghdad with a handgun, shooting him and running off.
On 6 July, for example, three US soldiers were killed in Baghdad - a civic affairs officer shot in the head at Baghdad University, a second soldier killed by fire while chasing a gunman through the streets, and a third killed when an "improvised explosive device" was hurled at his vehicle.
Between 1 May, when Bush declared an end to "major fighting", and 7 July, a total of 29 American and six British soldiers were killed by hostile fire.
meionline.com /newsanalysis/113.shtml   (1144 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: WEEK IN REVIEW
A gunman killed two people and wounded four others in a 45-minute rampage that began in a small Delaware town just over the line from the Maryland's Eastern Shore and extended into Maryland.
The gunman littered the streets of the Eastern Shore with bullets as he fired at passing vehicles, homes and dogs, police said.
Allison Lamont Norman, 22, of Seaford, Del., has been charged with first-degree murder and the use of a handgun in the commission of a felony.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40575-2005Apr9?language=printer   (542 words)

  
 Outpost.com | Allday Entertainment/Image Entertainment-DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A manhunt ensues with the police just a few paces behind, including a nicely staged scene in a department store in which Roback manages to improvise an escape, only to be standing by across the street from his intended destination as his waiting confederates are taken by the police.
The movie flows along with a beguiling ease, trailing out several plot threads and relationships that neatly draw together in a heightening dramatic arc, the suspense tableaus shifting elegantly from one scene to another, overlapping time and plot elements, and pulling the viewer inexorably into the center.
Gunman in the Streets wasn't shown theatrically in the United States until 2001, 50 years after its premiere in France, and 49 years after it reached England.
www.outpost.com /product/3230311   (487 words)

  
 Panic in the streets - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 12, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A single-engine Cessna 150 veered into restricted airspace over Washington at midday yesterday, terrorizing the White House and the Capitol and setting off a brief panic in the streets surrounding the White House and the Capitol.
Aides and reporters were led out of the White House by Secret Service agents who yelled at them to "run, run, run." At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, legislators, aides and tourists ran from the Capitol, jostling each other out of the way.
Television networks went live with video shots of the turmoil on the streets, and even after the all-clear was sounded, they continued to roll the footage through the afternoon.
washingtontimes.com /national/20050512-121023-4193r.htm   (968 words)

  
 Gunman in the Streets
A sort of tough guy twist on Hitchcock's Notorious with a few ripples of feminism (before such a thing even really existed), Gunman was shot in both English and French versions; the former is represented on this DVD and was directed by noir veteran Frank Tuttle (This Gun for Hire).
A perfectly respectable and accomplished crime film, Gunman in the Streets is more stylish and intriguing than the Scarface-style cover art might lead consumers to believe.
Their transfer of Gunman is a class act all the way, retaining all of the luster in the original fl and white photography while admirably capturing the grit of the street scenes.
www.mondo-digital.com /gunman.html   (488 words)

  
 Gunman in the Streets (1951) - A Review by David Nusair
Gunman in the Streets (1951) - A Review by David Nusair
Though Gunman in the Streets isn't a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, it is notable for the fact that it contains a truly unlikable central character.
Gunman in the Streets is a gritty little movie, filled with the kind of stylized dialogue and tough guy posturing one expects from a film noir.
www.reelfilm.com /gunmanin.htm   (393 words)

  
 DCist: Breaking News: Gunmen at 15th and L Rite Aid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
-- It appears the Post, which has offices at 15th and L streets, has little more news, confirming that a number of Rite Aid employees are inside.
With K and L streets closed, crosstown corridors north and south of the scene are clogged with traffic.
On the way into work this morning, I ran into a traffic situation when my bus sat at the corner of 13th and K streets for the better part of ten minutes.
www.dcist.com /archives/2004/12/21/breaking_news_gunmen_at_15th_and_l_rite_aid.php   (504 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Gunman in the Streets (1950)
All Day Entertainment has revived the Frank Tuttle man-on-the-run thriller Gunman In The Streets (known in Canada as Gangster At Bay), and it is a wonderful example of the genre.
As is so typical of the genre, Tuttle's Gunman In The Streets is beautifully loaded with deep shadows, swirling cigarette smoke and snappy banter.
Image Transfer Review: All Day Entertainment have thankfully resurrected Gunman In The Street, and issued it with a 1.33:1 image transfer that has been digitally mastered from 35m fine grain.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=2936   (888 words)

  
 Guelff, James L.
Nobody who ever worked with James Guelff was surprised that he was the first officer to arrive at Pine and Franklin streets, where a gunman was firing rounds into the night.
The gunman was armed with two assault rifles, an Uzi automatic pistol, a Colt.45 and a Glock 9mm pistol.
He earned several commendations, including a medal of valor in 1990 after he apprehended a gunman while off duty.
www.camemorial.org /htm/guelff.htm   (568 words)

  
 Video may ID downtown gunman By BRIAN SEALS SENTINEL STAFF WRITER April 25, 2002
Eight shell casings were found in the parking lot and an equal number of holes were found in the back of the green Nissan minivan that carried the two victims and four passengers who were uninjured.
The gunshots were heard by foot patrol officers, who stopped the van at Front and Laurel streets.
The 25-year-old man was taken to Dominican Hospital, where he was treated and released for a bullet wound to the left leg.
www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2002/April/25/local/stories/02local.htm   (482 words)

  
 Pattaya Mail News
The General visited Pattaya with his staff of officers and called together police department commanders from throughout the area for a three hour meeting, during which he issued orders to, amongst other things, clean out the mafia element, both foreign and Thai.
During a recent Banglamung District Security conference, District Chief Prasert Thanasethakorn emphasized that the ongoing drug problem is turning the district, as well as the country, inside out.
He referred to local residents who recently reported that the situation is so out of hand, drug dealers in the area of Soi 6 between Pattaya 2 Road and Beach Road are arrogantly selling drugs from tables set up on the street, with buyers queuing up to buy the junk.
www.pattayamail.com /312/news.htm   (1823 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Battle turns cold in a snowy assault
In Mazar-e-Sharif, in the north, a government-appointed security force has told militia factions to withdraw their fighters within two days, according to General Majid Rouzi, appointed by the interim government to help establish the 600-member force.
Unauthorized gunman on the streets Friday will be "confronted and their weapons will be taken away," Rouzi said.
Militia factions appeared to heed the warning and called their fighters back to barracks outside the city.
www.sptimes.com /2002/02/07/Worldandnation/Battle_turns_cold_in_.shtml   (518 words)

  
 Gary Cooper Biography at Classic Movie Stars
Although Cooper frequently essayed roles that called for him to be shy or reticent, his offscreen conduct vitiated that image; his affairs with Bow, Lupe Velez, and others were both numerous and well known.
Cooper played a hard-boiled gunman in City Streets (1931), a gangster story written by Dashiell Hammett; his performance suggests that he'd have been right at home playing one of Hammett's pulp-fiction detectives.
It's unfortunate that he didn't choose to appear in more comedies, because he certainly had the knack.
www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/cooper.html   (823 words)

  
 Gunman in the Streets
Hi, I am pleased to see that you have found two of the "lost" films I have been after for many years.
I live in England and saw "Gunman in the Streets" when it was first released.
On a related note, nice job on the GUNMAN IN THE STREETS dvd.
www.alldayentertainment.com /online-store/scstore/allday/gunman/mail.html   (365 words)

  
 DCist: Breaking News: Gunman Reported at 15th and L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
DCist wandered into a police barricade this morning at 15th and K streets NW.
According to the security guard for our building at the perimeter, there is a robbery in progress at Rite Aid at the corner of 15th and L streets and a gunman on the scene.
We've heard that there may be a hostage situation, but details are sketchy.
www.dcist.com /archives/2004/12/21/breaking_news_gunman_reported_at_15th_and_l.php   (213 words)

  
 GREAT CRIMES AND TRIALS: Son Of Sam - showing on The History Channel
The shooting of two young girls in the North Bronx on the night of 29 July 1976, seemed motiveless and baffling.
But soon the police realised that a crazed gunman was stalking the streets with a 44 calibre revolver.
The city was terrorized by 12 more killings until the following up of a parking violation led to the arrest of the plump, cherubic 'Son of Sam'.
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/tv_guide/full_details/Crime/programme_918.php   (142 words)

  
 DVD Talk Review: Gunman in the Streets
The real attraction here is a very young Simone Signoret, whose beauty and talent carry the film, even when it comes up wanting in other departments.
Signoret was already fairly well-established by the time this opportunity rolled around, so perhaps her agent figured that co-starring with an American name would be a good career move for her.
After Gunman in the Streets didn't work out, she continued with her roll of French hits before trying the English language again.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=3208   (1303 words)

  
 Bullets & Bravery: Top News Stories at Officer.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A hero cop didn't hesitate to chase after a gunman on the streets of Harlem — even though he saw that the wildman had a pistol in each hand.
in the Lincoln Houses project, but lost him as the gunman ran to his aunt's 14th-floor apartment.
Harris, who was released from prison Jan. 11 after serving three years on a gun charge, plunged from a window in a desperate bid to avoid going back behind bars.
www.officer.com /article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=24638   (483 words)

  
 gunmaninthestreets
Frank wrote a best-selling biography on Eddy Roback, and has fallen madly in love with Denise.
Noticing the tail, she uses her street smarts to ditch them and meets Eddy in their old rendezvous spot.
Denise rides in a taxi with Eddy to meet his old acquaintances, but no one is willing to help; so Denise hides him in the apartment of a sleazy magazine photographer, the snitch Max Salva, who put Eddy behind bars.
www.sover.net /~ozus/gunmaninthestreets.htm   (557 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Gunman in the Streets (Full Screen): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Amazon.ca: Gunman in the Streets (Full Screen): DVD
Shot in Paris at the end of the 1940s by Frank Tuttle, who had found his Hollywood career interrupted by the Red Scare, it possesses a lot of the same smooth, almost hypnotically subtle elements that characterized Tuttle's best film, This Gun for Hire.
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www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005TNFW   (348 words)

  
 Read Ireland Book News - Issue 97 - New Irish Fiction
As for Declan Coyningham … there wasn't a holier boy in all of the village - you couldn't move in town without finding a bit of him in your patch or under a hedge.
In scenes of disarming inventiveness - from a farmer's romance and his skin condition to one man's culinary relationship with Bruce Lee - this novel will make you howl with laughter from the first unnerving page to the last.
Shot by a gunman on the streets of Belfast.
www.readireland.ie /booknews/booknews4/issue97.html   (1304 words)

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