12-24-2016, 06:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-24-2017, 04:44 PM by Vultural. Edited 1 time in total.)
Boomerang - 1947 - 6/10
![[Image: Boomerang%201947.jpg]](https://sites.google.com/site/022448/Boomerang%201947.jpg)
Part of 20th Century Fox Noir releases.
Popular minister is murdered on a busy sidewalk by man in coat and hat.
Police proceed to arrest every man who fills said description - poor or unemployed men, naturally.
They zero in on one and wear him down, refusing to let him sleep, until he signs a “confession.”
Case closed! Citizens can rest easy at nights as democracy triumphs again.
Well ... no ... cause this ain’t no Noir. It’s an early, preachy Elia Kazan film.
Corrupt small town America, themes that landed Kazan in a hotseat before HUAC.
There are better and more fun Noirs out there, as well as finer Kazan films, though I tend to shun this particular director.
![[Image: Boomerang%201947.jpg]](https://sites.google.com/site/022448/Boomerang%201947.jpg)
Part of 20th Century Fox Noir releases.
Popular minister is murdered on a busy sidewalk by man in coat and hat.
Police proceed to arrest every man who fills said description - poor or unemployed men, naturally.
They zero in on one and wear him down, refusing to let him sleep, until he signs a “confession.”
Case closed! Citizens can rest easy at nights as democracy triumphs again.
Well ... no ... cause this ain’t no Noir. It’s an early, preachy Elia Kazan film.
Corrupt small town America, themes that landed Kazan in a hotseat before HUAC.
There are better and more fun Noirs out there, as well as finer Kazan films, though I tend to shun this particular director.