Posts Tagged ‘Odds Against Tomorrow’
Odds Against Tomorrow 3
For a Hollywood genre film Odds Against Tomorrow was experimental and arty. The opening shot was filmed in infra red film which bleached the skin of the racist character played by Robert Ryan above. Since the story hinges on the racial conflict between white man Ryan and black man Harry Belafonte, whitening Ryan’s skin in […]
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Odds Against Tomorrow 2
Odds Against Tomorrow was mostly shot on location in New York city and upstate New York. The locations were carefully chosen, each scene plays out in very distinctive place. It gives the film a sense of reality, as if the events could be happening right next to you. In these shots the skyscrapers are composed […]
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Odds Against Tomorrow 1
Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 film noir, a combination heist-movie and message-film (is that three genres?). It was directed by the great Robert Wise and starred Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan, whose shadows you can see in these photos. The climax is a chase through an oil refinery at night. Harry Belafonte is chasing […]
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Odds Against
Harry Callahan, Chicago 1961 When I was ‘young in photography’ this Callahan photograph made a deep impression on me. A monumental figure like a statue is plucked out of an everyday moment on a footpath. The ominous clock ticking away, its hand pointing at the woman, a de Chirico in Chicago. What are the odds […]
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