I Walk Alone

'You're hurting me.' 'And you love it.'
With dialogue like that, and players like Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Lisabeth Scott, you don't have to guess which genre you've stumbled onto. Director Byron Haskin's ('Too Late for Tears,' 'War of the Worlds') 'I Walk Alone'-- a Hal Wallis production filmed at Paramount-- may not be quite top-tier noir (as the otherwise hardboiled story gets a little soft in the middle), but it's got curves in all the right places. Not yet released on DVD. In the meantime, for those of us who've tossed out our VCRs, it is available to stream via Amazon and Netflix. 3 1/2 stars.

Nougat Noir?
I have spent waaaaay too much of my fifty-plus years taking in movies; from tracking down `must-see' classics, to stumbling upon my own obscure favorites (Montana; 1998). So am not sure how I missed this little gem.

Just released after taking a 14-year prison rap for his gang, a 211