FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Christmas Eve HOT RODS FOR HELL celebration. Dana Andrews on the phone with daughter Laurie Mock while wife Jeanne Crain look on: but for traveling salesman dad, a car crash ruins the holiday but primes the road movie plotline: A nuclear family vs teen "animals" in a speeding convertible across the sunlight desert hwy. 

Dana Andrews in The Twilight Zone: No Time Like The Past from the hour-long Season Four: A time-traveler tries fixing past tragedies, from Hitler to the A-bomb: Towards the end, Rod Serling teases the following week's The Parallel, with Dana's little brother, Steve Forrest: so technically, both siblings appear on the same Zone...

Primal font for Jacques Tourneur's CURSE OF THE DEMON; a British horror thriller from 1957 and one of Dana Andrews's best latter films.  Add caption

Heavily drinking, and married, Dana Andrews fell for co-star Linda Cristal, best known later for MR. MAJESTYK: In a strange turn of somewhat creepy evens, he wanted his wife to meet her as he starred in the politically-correct Western, COMANCHE: Simply put, Dana needed to sober, and smarten, up at this point of his career, and life.

Another shot from DUEL IN THE JUNGLE , which was STATE FAIR beauty Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews' adventure safari flick. 

Title credit of Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain's second film after STATE FAIR: An England-to-Africa set adventure titled DUEL IN THE JUNGLE . With a British-spelled "Colour" but not on the word "Technicolor." You can't change the name of a product.

Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain begin their four movie, three decade collaboration in STATE FAIR: She's a naive young farm girl and he's a slightly older, slightly worldly newspaper man, and they make terrific sparks together. Opposites do attract here.

Dana in a jet plane, on the way to England in Jacques Tourneur's classic British horror/thriller CURSE OF THE DEMON. Kept awake by cute Peggy Cummins, they'll soon realize each are connected to the film's spooky title. One of Dana's best latter films, and Dana and Jacques finished together with THE FEARMAKERS the following year.

Other than, the next decade, appearing in back-to-back TWILIGHT ZONE episodes, Dana Andrews and younger brother Steve Forrest only appeared in together once, in one movie, and it was Dana's World War II Noir SEALED CARGO where Andrews is a reluctant-to-get-involved ship captain and his square-jawed, blond-haired brother, a Nazi soldier under the command of a sneaky Claude Rains...

"Ah, go on, no one's got a wife that looks like that!" Happy Birthday Virginia Mayo, who not only played Dana Andrews beautiful but not very deep wife, Marie, in the film he's most remembered for, but she ironically uttered the line, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES .

Dana Andrews on the road with kids and wife (Jeanne Crain) across a desert hwy towards a hotel he's set to run after a car accident put him out of commission for sales travel, but local young hot rodders (with Gene Kirkwood) provide an eclectic bulwark along the way. Cult Film Freak HOT HODS TO HELL reviews here and here .

Dana Andrews in THE CROWDED SKY as Dick, the pilot of an jet airline and here he is taxiing for takeoff... There's so much information and connections about Andrews and the sub-genre of airplane disaster films, and that will all be revealed, someday. Cult Film Freak Review . 

Seeing Dana Andrews in a cameo in Otto Preminger's John Wayne WWII Pearl Harbor melodrama IN HARM'S WAY would be like a James Stewart walk-on in Alfred Hitchcock's TOPAZ. Dana Plays a maligned admiral under infamous command of General Short (Francone Tone).

Dana Andrews plays the title character in Otto Preminger's followup Film Noir to LAURA; though it seems this pictured dame is our FALLEN ANGEL: Enter Linda Darnell as a lusted-upon waitress with the posture of a tattered wild animal reluctantly thrown back into gilded domesticity, it's a pose epitomizing the desperation and desolation of Film Noir. Here's the Cult Film Freak review.

There's a bookend of beating in Jacques Tourneur's desk-set Film Noir THE FEARMAKERS as Dana Andrews begins as a prisoner-of-war from Korea, and then back in Washington D.C. where he owned a business dealing with public-relations opinion-research, now headed crookedly by villain Dick Foran and his huge henchman, Kelly Thordsen, who beat Dana's Alan Eaton some more. But he doesn't lose; not ultimately. Full review at Cult Film Freak .

Dana Andrews from CRACK IN THE WORLD, as his character, Dr. Stephen Sorenson, provides a one-sided demonstration of nuking the earth's core to acquire ways of conserving electricity, using the molten lava rising up as a replacement. A disaster film reviewed on Cult Film Freak . 

Our first post ever, here's Dana Andrews as a Korean POW Vet given to fits of fainting spells, and here regaining his composure to sustain fighting bad guy Dick Foran, who took over his company whilst being brainwashed by communists. Reviewed as a Jacques Tourneur with Dana double feature along with CURSE OF THE DEMON on the main site, Cult Film Freak .