FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

"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 .