Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics (@psclassics.bsky.social), co-host @thenoircollective.bsky.social and write about vintage film & TV. https://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
Tommy Krasker
Loading...
Friday in the Park with Philip and Gregory – which, by the way, is a terrible name for a musical. We visited the sculpture garden. It was lovely, but it was also 102°, so we didn’t last long. 😅
Omigosh, @willmckinley.bsky.social, what a tour-de-force of hosting – and what a fabulous film you chose. As I mentioned, I haven’t seen this film since Obama‘s first term. As with Panic in the Streets and The Glass Wall, man, it hits a lot differently today. #TheNoirCollective #StormWarning
The split second shot of a Black couple shaking their heads w/ resignation after the verdict is announced is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
#TheNoirCollective #StormWarning
Tommy Krasker
Tommy Krasker
2/2
Here, George Bancroft stars as Fredric March’s unlikely competition for Mary Astor!
How this bizarre plot line comes about & ends is the stuff of early talkie melodrama, but it does beg the question:
“Why didn’t March & Astor ever work together again?”
What a beautiful pair!
#tcmparty
NEXT WED at #TheNoirCollective:
A cop, a mobster – and the woman who stands between them. Joseph Lewis directs, and John Alton dazzles.
@ctmillion.bsky.social and I are cohosting THE BIG COMBO (1955) at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT – plus an encore showing with #FrightClub at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. Join us! 😊
Tommy Krasker
Will McKinley
NowWatching on YouTube
Ladies Love Brutes 1930.
For a brief moment, actors like Charles Bickford or George Bancroft got cast as romantic leads in early Pre-Code talkies before eventually establishing themselves as 2nd lead heavies or character actors.
1/2
#Tcmparty
