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Screen Action Jazz

Commentary and breaking news regarding the golden age of jazz soundtracks that supplied a swing backdrop for the suspenseful adventures of secret agents, private detectives, cops, spies and heist-minded criminals.

  • By Derrick Bang
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly seven posts per year
  • First post on

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Mar 2022 1
Apr 2022 1
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Most recent posts

Recent discovery: Blue Ice
Michael Caine was born to star in spy thrillers, which became obvious during his career-making portrayal of Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer, in The Ipcress File. (Deighton’s protagonist actually remains unnamed in his 1962 novel and …
On , by Derrick Bang, 1,131 words
Recent discovery: Face the Music
I’m willing to bet that no other film has turned a jazz trumpet player into an amateur sleuth.During the decade before the innovatively gruesome Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958) prompted Britain’s Hammer Films …
On , by Derrick Bang, 984 words
Recent discovery: West 11
Director Michael Winner’s melancholy noir entry quietly smolders amid an atmosphere of casual debauchery enhanced by Otto Heller’s gorgeous monochromatic cinematography. The early 1960s Ladbroke Grove setting is laden with sleazy diners, street food and …
On , by Derrick Bang, 870 words