tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post7270541221424951007..comments2024-03-21T04:11:40.462-07:00Comments on Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: Boomerang!Chris Caglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-61329909462954180592007-04-26T12:34:00.000-07:002007-04-26T12:34:00.000-07:00The core of the cycle is the Henry Hathaway trilog...The core of the cycle is the Henry Hathaway trilogy (so to speak): <I>House on 92nd Street</I>, <I>13 Rue Madeleine</I>, and <I>Call Northside 777</I>. In addition to these and <I>Boomerang!</I>, Fox made <I>Kiss of Death</I> and <I>Panic in the Streets</I> in pseudodocumentary style, and in general incorporated documentary footage and realist style in unexpected places. <BR/><BR/>Hellinger/Universal put out the most famous of the cycle, <I>The Naked City</I>. Louis de Rochemont went on to produce independently the social problem pseudodocs <I>Lost Boundaries</I> and <I>Whistle at Eaton Falls</I>. I may be overlooking a title or two, but essentially the cycle was limited in its run.<BR/><BR/>The neorealism question is a bit vexed, since I'm not sure historians have answered the influence question in a satisfactory manner. If you read the trades there was definitely awareness of neorealism in the waters of the postwar years. That said, <I>House on 92nd Street</I> was made in 1945 and conceived before <I>Open City</I>. It's likely that Zanuck - in addition to wanting to exploit Fox's Movietone newsreel division - fell back on the same producerly instincts that guided his "headliner" cycle at Warner Brothers in the early 1930s.Chris Caglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-31337144192518969522007-04-26T10:26:00.000-07:002007-04-26T10:26:00.000-07:00I wasn't familiar with this film or six-film cycle...I wasn't familiar with this film or six-film cycle you're talking about. What are the other five?<BR/><BR/>Also, do you have a sense of whether the people behind these films were consciously inspired by the success of Open City?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com