Private Hell 36 Leith Stevens Coral CRL 56122 1954 10" Noir Sleaze Crime Jazz

Description: Leith Stevens & His Orchestra – Private Hell 36 Label:Coral – CRL 56122Format:Vinyl, 10", LPCountry:USReleased:1954Genre:Jazz, Stage & ScreenStyle:SoundtrackA1Private Hell 36A2Havana InterludeA3Easy MoodB1Daddy, Long LegsB2JoshuaB3LilliB4Dance Of The LilliputianB5Private BluesWritten-By – Leith StevensSoundtrack from 1954 film starring Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran and Howard Duff. Private Hell 36 is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Don Siegel starring Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger and Dorothy Malone.[1] The picture was one of the last feature-length efforts by Filmakers, an independent company created by producer Collier Young and his star and then-wife Ida Lupino. PlotL.A. police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham are partners. Upon meeting a nightclub singer, Lilli Marlowe, who may hold the key to solving a major New York robbery. Lilli assists the pair in the search for a suspect she encountered; a romance develops between her and Cal. When the suspect is finally spotted, a chase ensues which results in the death of the fugitive. Inside the car, there is a box filled with money and Cal pockets $80,000 of it. Jack wants nothing to do with this and reminds his partner that the money is marked. Cal has a plan, however, and Jack finds himself wedged into it. He reluctantly accepts a key to a trailer in which Cal has hidden the money, the idea being that Jack can access his share, but Jack - a family man who just wants as normal a life as possible - is increasingly agitated and racked with guilt. Cal receives a call from the dead man's partner threatening to reveal the cop's deceit unless he gets his money back. Jack insists that they turn in the money and take what is coming to them, but Cal says he intends to murder the blackmailer and claim self defence. After a time, Cal agrees to return the money, but he is actually preparing to kill his own partner. When the crook suddenly shows up Cal wounds Jack, then Cal is killed by a shot from the dark. Their boss, Captain Michaels, appears and reveals that he suspected the detectives had taken the money, the blackmailing crook was just a ruse.[2] CastIda Lupino as Lilli MarloweSteve Cochran as Cal BrunerHoward Duff as Jack FarnhamDean Jagger as Capt. MichaelsDorothy Malone as Francey FarnhamKing Donovan as Evney SerovitchDabbs Greer as Sam MarvinWilliam Boyett as StimsonTom Monroe as Patrolman TomRichard Deacon as Mr. MaceJames Anderson as Patrolman in Locker RoomBridget Duff as Bridget FarnhamKenneth Patterson as Detective Lt. LubinChester Conklin as Murdered ManBackgroundThe extensive racetrack scenes in the film were shot at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. The interiors of real bars and shops were used so the actors could walk out into actual streets within the same scene. The film starts with a pre-credit sequence before the first titles appear in an early modernist foreshadowing of the action teaser before it became commonplace on television series of the sixties. Typical of The Film[m]akers productions the last title card misspells “Made in Holl[y]wood, USA.“ The film is notable as one of the early Siegel B movies on which future auteur Sam Peckinpah (credited under his first name of David) learned his craft as a dialogue director.[3] ReceptionFilm critic Bosley Crowther wrote a tepid review, "A critic might note that attention is sharply divided between the main theme and the incidental character that Miss Lupino plays. This is somewhat understandable, since Miss Lupino happens to be one of the partners in Filmakers and a coauthor of the script. But let's not worry about it. No deplorable damage is done. There's not very much here to damage. Just an average melodrama about cops."[4] ThemePrivate Hell 36 showcases a number of Siegel’s thematic concerns, among the crisis that occurs when “original assumptions [or] convictions are turned against a protagonist”[5] Film critic Judith M. Kass writes: Siegel demonstrates that love is not a refuge for man or woman, even for the couple (Howard Duff and Dorothy Malone) whose marriage is threatened by Duff’s anxiety and subsequent drinking. For Siegel, love apparently complicates rather than ameliorates the existential loneliness of his characters, creating for them additional hurdles in their already turbulent emotional lives and forming, rather than eroding, barriers to feeling and closenes

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