“I Know a Way…”: Sudden Fear Ian Olney March 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hollywood never knew what to do with Gloria Grahame. When Grahame’s movie career stalled in the early 1960s, she had only been in the business for fifteen years. In that short time, she had appeared in a string...
Out of the Shadows: Cloak and Dagger (Fritz Lang, 1946) Ian Olney May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (1946) is a far more interesting film than its middling reputation suggests. A spy story about an American physicist recruited by the US government in 1944 to prevent the Third Rei...
“Wasn’t Born to Follow” / “The Weight” in Easy Rider (1969) Ian Olney October 2020 Pop Music in Film Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), a herald of Hollywood’s ‘70s renaissance and lament for the death of the ‘60s counterculture, is a movie famously full of moments powered by popular music of the era. No doubt ...