Art from the Outskirts

Here’s one from the early days revisited for this week’s edtion of Friday Night Funky Flicks achived from October 18, 2008.

Here’s yet another classic film from the public domain. This film noir piece stars Frank Sinatra as a man out to assassinate the President. It’s not the best I’ve even seen but “Old Blue Eyes” certainly can’t be denied his knack for the dirty gangster role!

Unknown, strange companies crawling out of the woodwork have been, up till now, foisting ill-wind versions of Frank Sinatra in his early surprise hit, SUDDENLY!, a film packed with excitement but the sole purveyors of this excellently high-quality master created from the original 35mm master and, with the quality so high, all one has to do is pay attention and by the second reel–you’re hooked. It’s short, taught, and guaranteed to impress the riff-raff. Even the old Groaner would love this one. And this is the ORIGINAL version which means great visual field and, most importantly—NO “LETTERBOXED” VERSIONS!! This film was shot in a flat, square format, and there it shall stay. Buy the Hal Roach Studios version and avoid the phoney letterbox but receive the best possible show for your trouble. And, that’s a promise!! Remember, it was Hal Roach Studios that Colorized Suddenly which could only be done from really fine underlying black and white materials and that’s what’s being offered here, so enjoy. And, unlike the first try at the color version, “Old Brown Eyes is NOT back”–we made them change them to blue!! Highly recommended - OpenFlix.com Anonymous Reviewer

Enjoy Suddenly. Directed by Lewis Allen and starring Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and James Gleason

Watch in full screen.

Have a great weekend from the Outskirts!

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