Film noir pulp magazines late 1940's-early 1950's store window Tucson Arizona
by David Lee Guss
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Film noir pulp magazines late 1940's-early 1950's store window Tucson Arizona
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David Lee Guss
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Pulp fiction magazines, with their hard-boiled detective stories, are the literary source for film noir.
"Black Mask" (1920-1951) is the most prestigious. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) and Dashiell Hammett (1898-1961) both published in it.
Other writers who worked for the pulps include Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), Robert Bloch (1917-1994), Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), Horace McCoy (1897-1955), Jim Thompson (1906-1977) and Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968). All had their short stories or novels made into films.
By far Woolrich had the most works adapted for the screen. Leigh Brackett co-wrote the screenplays for several Howard Hawks films, including "Big Sleep" (1946), "Rio Bravo" (1959) "Hatari" (1962) "El Dorado" (1966) and "Rio Lobo" (1970).
The most hard bitten writer of them all, Jim Thompson, worked with Stanley Kubrick on "The Killing" (1956) and "Paths of Glory" (1957). He even acted in "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975), an adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel.
The pulp magazines in this photo date from the heyday of noir (late 1940's and early 1950's) but these issues feature writers with none of the talent of those listed above.
Cornell Woolrich also wrote under the pen name of William Irish. As Irish he published the novel "Phantom Lady."
"Lady" is a very stylish noir with marvelous low key lighting by the Englishman Woody Bredell (1894-1976).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH5ZPIsI6-M
My favorite sequence in the film is the jazz band scene, with Elisha Cook, Jr on the drums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vEgZM5x0ik&feature=related
Cook appeared in 12 noirs, most famously as "the gunsel," in John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) based on the Dashiell Hammett novel.
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