What a great review! It's been a while since I saw this movie, but I remember really liking it. I loved Lizabeth Scott and Mary Astor, and I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but I think it's one of the movies that first made me seriously notice Wendell Corey. But I didn't know that this was his first movie, that's even more impressive! The gender duality of Johnny's character is so interesting--a traditional sidekick, while also having traits of many noir female characters, including getting slapped. "Fellas, it is gay" sums up the movie very accurately!
It's possible I'm not remembering this right, but there's a scene near the beginning, I think, when they are driving into town and talking about beer, and Johnny sort of smacks his lips... I wouldn't have thought of this without your review of "The furies" and that cake licking scene, but it feels subtly and quietly suggestive in the context of such a queer movie? And maybe it also flew past the censorship, and it's great!
(If it's useful, I found it on Archive.org. It has Spanish subtitles, but they hopefully won't get in the way too much!)
how delightful I find it that BAMF Style devoted a column to his look in Desert Fury
Delightful indeed! And I like all the bits you've found about him too. The signet ring observation is a sharp one--my eyesight is too bad and I would have never noticed it! XD But it made me curious--I thought it could be a school ring, and while I didn't find any conclusive evidence, some of his yearbooks popped up almost immediately! Look at him!
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It's possible I'm not remembering this right, but there's a scene near the beginning, I think, when they are driving into town and talking about beer, and Johnny sort of smacks his lips... I wouldn't have thought of this without your review of "The furies" and that cake licking scene, but it feels subtly and quietly suggestive in the context of such a queer movie? And maybe it also flew past the censorship, and it's great!
(If it's useful, I found it on Archive.org. It has Spanish subtitles, but they hopefully won't get in the way too much!)
Delightful indeed! And I like all the bits you've found about him too. The signet ring observation is a sharp one--my eyesight is too bad and I would have never noticed it! XD But it made me curious--I thought it could be a school ring, and while I didn't find any conclusive evidence, some of his yearbooks popped up almost immediately! Look at him!