If you see only ONE American movie this year...

— make it Don Siegel's The Big Steal (1949)*.




The Big Steal by Don Siegel, 1949:









*PTA's There Will Be Blood and FFC's Youth Without Youth will go wide closer to January 1.

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Big post ready to drop very, very soon; watch this space. Have been holding back until the editing+'s finished. In the meantime, someone's drawn a moustache over the photo of Walter Murch's moustache — it was probably me...

"And this slap is a gift, / Because your cheeks have lost their luster..."

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