Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year RKO 1945: JOHNNY ANGEL & CORNERED

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 5:23 a.m.

For this RKO 1945 episode, two beautifully filmed noirs (by Harry J. Wild), Edwin L. Marin's\xa0Johnny Angel, another noir with a femme fatale (Claire Trevor) who loves too much (and gets a very unexpected - and gory - redemption),\xa0and Edward Dmytryk's\xa0Cornered, in which\xa0Dick Powell learns why you shouldn't hunt down Nazis and kill them with your bare hands, but doesn't seem very interested. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss the 1982 documentary I\xa0Heard It Through the Grapevine, in which James Baldwin talks to the people who were there about the failures of the civil rights movement and what they say about America.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 35s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 JOHNNY ANGEL [dir. Edwin L. Marin]

0h 29m 15s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 CORNERED [dir. Edward Dmytrk]

0h 46m 40s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto \u2013 TIFF Cin\xe9math\xe8que \u2013 I Heard it Through the Grapevine (1982) by Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley

0h 53m 22s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Listener mail with Simon!

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

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