King Vidor’s first sound film and pioneering first all African American cast musical “HALLELUJAH” (1929) earned him an Academy Award nomination and starred Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney in her film debut 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

“SOLOMON AND SHEBA” (1959) dir. King Vidor Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Pavan, David Farrar, Harry Andrews, John Crawford, Laurence Naismith, George Sanders, Finlay Currie, Jean Anderson, William Devlin, Jack Gwillim, José Nitro 🎬 United Artists

“THE FOUNTAINHEAD” (1949) dir. King Vidor Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas, Kent Smith 🎬 Warner Bros.

“COMRADE X” (1940) dir. King Vidor Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Happy 94th Birthday to 🇺🇸American composer, conductor and pianist #JohnWilliams KBE born #OnThisDay in Queens, New York City

#JamesDean #BOTD seen here sharing a moment in between takes with co-star Natalie Wood. The two tragic stars of "REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE " (1955). Dean died in a car crash in 1955, one month before the film was released; aged just 24. Wood drowned in 1981, she was 43

James Dean, Natalie Wood “REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE” (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray 🎬 Warner Bros.

Julie Harris, James Dean “EAST OF EDEN” (1955) dir. Elia Kazan 🎬 Warner Bros. Pictures

James Dean stars alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson in George Steven’s 🇺🇸American epic Western drama film “GIANT” (1956) 🎬 Warner Bros.

James Dean and Natalie Wood star in Nicholas Ray's 🇺🇸American coming-of-age romantic drama film “REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE” (1955) with Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Marietta Canty and William Hopper 🎬 Warner Bros.

#JamesDean (8 February 1931 – 30 September 1955)

Jack Lemmon stars with Catherine Deneuve in one of her rare 🇺🇸 American pictures - the romantic comedy “THE APRIL FOOLS” (1969) dir. Stuart Rosenberg, with a splendid Hamlisch score, accompanied by the Bacharach/David title track sung by Dionne Warwick with the nostalgic New York locations

Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon taking a break on the set of “THE APARTMENT” (1960) 🎬 United Artists

Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon photographed on location at Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawaii, for the filming of John Ford’s multi Academy Award nominated 🇺🇸American comedy-drama “MISTER ROBERTS” (1955) 🎬 Warner Bros.

Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis “SOME LIKE IT HOT” (1959) dir. Billy Wilder 🎬 United Artists

Jack Lemmon stars with Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's multi Academy Award nominated 🇺🇲 American comedy film "SOME LIKE IT HOT" (1959) 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Remembering the late 🇺🇸American actor #JackLemmon (8 February 1925 – 27 June 2001) born #OnThisDay in Newton, Massachusetts

“THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE” (1946) dir.Tay Garnett Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 🎞 #FilmNoir

Hollywood legend #LanaTurner photographed with co-stars Sean Connery and Terence Longdon on location in Cornwall in England during a break in filming on the set of the 🇬🇧 British drama “ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE” (1958) dir. Lewis Allen 🎬 Paramount Pictures

Remembering today the late 🇺🇸American actress #LanaTurner (8 February 1921 – 29 June 1995) born #OnThisDay in Wallace, Idaho

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British actor #RogerLloydPack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) born #OnThisDay in London, England

Franklin J. Schaffner's 🇺🇲 American science fiction film "PLANET OF THE APES" based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans and Linda Harrison premiered #OnThisDay in 1968 at the Capitol Theatre in New York City 🎬 20th Century-Fox

Martin Scorsese's 🇺🇸 American psychological thriller film "TAXI DRIVER" (1976) starring Robert De Niro in his Oscar nominated role as chronic insomniac Travis Bickle premiered #OnThisDay in 1976 at the Coronet Theatre in New York City 🎬 Columbia Pictures 🎞 #NeoNoir

When your cover is blown... Humphrey Bogart and Elisha Cook Jr in #FilmNoir The Maltese Falcon (1941)

In Saul Bass' title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the film’s title and credits are fractured by the linear bars that graphically intersect them, prompting the viewer to interpret the splitting of the letterforms as metaphoric of psychosis itself.

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British actor #GarethHunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007), seen here as corrupt property developer Ted Standen in the #Minder episode "THE SON ALSO RISES" (1982) dir. Francis Megahy 🎬 Euston Films 📺 Thames Television

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British stage, radio, film and television actress #HattieJacques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) born #OnThisDay in Sandgate, England

Remembering the late 🇬🇧 British actor #PetePostlethwaite OBE (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011) born #OnThisDay in Warrington, seen here as Jack 'Oily' Wragg in the #Minder episode "BACK IN GOOD OLD ENGLAND" (1982) dir. Francis Megahy 🎬 Euston Films 📺 Thames Television

“CARRY ON CABBY” (1963) dir. Gerald Thomas Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Conner, Liz Fraser, Amanda Barrie, Jim Dale, Peter Gilmour 🎬 Peter Rogers Productions 🎞 Anglo-Amalgamated

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British theatre, radio, film and television actress #DoraBryan OBE (7 February 1923 – 23 July 2014) born #OnThisDay in Southport, England

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British composer, bandleader, conductor and arranger #LaurieJohnson MBE (7 February 1927 – 16 January 2024) born #OnThisDay in London, England

#HattieJacques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980)

Remembering the late 🇬🇧British theatre, radio, film and television actress #DoraBryan OBE (7 February 1923 – 23 July 2014) born #OnThisDay in Southport, England

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British theatre, film and television actor #GarethHunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007), born #OnThisDay in Battersea, London, England

The Getaway (1972) Directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Walter Hill stars Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw and Al Lettieri.

This week in film teaching, I covered British film noir and discussed how Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949) breaks from noir conventions through its dark comedic tone, primarily expressed by its jaunty zither score that contrasts sharply with the harsher realities of Vienna's post-war black market.

Dirty Harry (1971) produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series starring Clint Eastwood.

Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, “THE AVENGERS” (1962 - 1964) 📺 ABC Television

Remembering the late 🇫🇷 French film director, screenwriter, producer and actor #FrançoisTruffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) born #OnThisDay in Paris

The 🇬🇧 British supernatural horror film “DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE” directed by Freddie Francis, starring Christopher Lee, Veronica Carlson, Barry Andrews, Rupert Davies, Michael Ripper & Barbara Ewing was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1969 🎬 Hammer Films 🎥 Warner Bros.-Seven Arts

Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre and Oskar Werner star in the 🇨🇵 French New Wave romantic drama film “JULES ET JIM” (1962) directed by François Truffaut 🎬 Cinédis

“THE 400 BLOWS”: Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) dir. François Truffaut Jean-Pierre Léaud Albert Rémy Claire Maurier 🎬 French New Wave 🇫🇷

François Truffaut and Julie Christie photographed on location in England during a break in filming “FAHRENHEIT 451” (1966)

François Truffaut and Catherine Deneuve reading the script of “La Sirène du Mississippi” (1960)

“Le Dernier Métro” (1980) dir. François Truffaut Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve

Remembering the late 🇫🇷 French film director, screenwriter, producer and actor #FrançoisTruffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984)

Patrick Macnee reprised his role as John Steed with co-stars Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit and Joanna Lumley as Purdey in the secret agent action television series "THE NEW AVENGERS" (1976) produced by Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell 📺 ITV Network

The guest stars in the “DIAGNOSIS MURDER” episode "Discards" (2000) were regulars on various spy shows of the 1960s: Barbara Bain in "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE" (1966); Robert Culp in "I SPY" (1965); Patrick Macnee in "THE AVENGERS" (1961); and Robert Vaughn in "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E." (1964)

Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, seen here in the opening titles of "THE AVENGERS" (1967) in this colour series, a percussion section was added to accompany the new teaser sequence at the start of each episode 📺 Associated British Productions for ABC

Gayle Hunnicutt #BOTD, was married to David Hemmings when they starred in the 🇬🇧British thriller film “FRAGMENT OF FEAR” (1970) directed by Richard C. Sarafian and accompanied by a distinguished supporting cast 🎬 Columbia Pictures