FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

"You're probably half drunk, and want me to play a song that REMINDS you of some GUY!" says bitter, blind Dana Andrews, with an inflection like no other, in NIGHT SONG with Merle Oberon.

Harold Russell strikes anew after lighting up for Dana Andrews and Fredric March, because he's never been in a plane and it's bad luck... and Happy Veterans Day from THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

In 1958, the same year as THE FEARMAKERS was another Cold War Thriller, albeit of the Disaster kind, and both featured the beautiful Marilee Earle: The first she's the leading lady opposite Dana Andrews, and in THE LOST MISSILE she's the pregnant wife of a secondary lead, extremely underused but still looking fantastic.

Dick Foran, always the movie villain, keeps on eye on secretary Marilee Earle as she sympathizes with Dana Andrews in Jacques Tourneur's desk-set late noir, THE FEARMAKERS.

Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney finished a five film team-up with Otto Preminger's WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, which might seem similar to LAURA, where a tough cop and a beautiful women are entangled in a murder, but couldn't be more different: she's protecting him this time, and yet, she doesn't even know it.

Dick Foran plays the villain in THE FEARMAKERS, making a deal with Dana Andrews, who will pretend to go along, for a while.

An uncredited Jack Warden, one day a popular veteran actor, in his youth alongside future BRAINSTORM rivals Jeffrey Hunter and Dana Andrews in THE FROGMEN.

Happy Halloween 2019 from the Dana Andrews Blog: yet another shot from the classic 1957 British Horror CURSE OF THE DEMON where Andrews, as usual, is on an airplane, and we're thus introduced to his character wearing his character on his face.

Virginia Mayo finds out about Dana Andrews's other woman by being invited by her, resulting in some great wordplay: "Say, who is this Peggy Stevenson?" "She's a girl." "Well I didn't think she was a kangaroo!!!" Here's Dana lunching with Teresa Wright at a pasta dive From THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

"And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, CURSE OF THE DEMON

Birthday of Linda Darnell, reoccurring Dana Andrews ingenue along with Jeanne Crain and Gene Tierney: Darnell, though, had the most edge, especially as the lusty FALLEN ANGEL waitress a decade before sitting by Dana's side as his wife in ZERO HOUR, later parodied by Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty in AIRPLANE.

So many CURSE OF THE DEMON paraphernalia to own, including every VHS and even this awesome laserdisc with the rare covers showing a disc grooving out from the artwork: herein Dana Andrews facing the titular creature that, albeit more bear than demon, is a classic monster in a classic British horror flick.

The last posted, linked here , shows the shot that really happens when Dana Andrews pulls out the (is pulling out the) ruins to match those on Stonehenge, a closeup, while here's the most famous image from the movie, a medium/wide shot that's not in either CURSE OF THE DEMON or NIGHT OF THE DEMON.

From CURSE OF THE DEMON at Stonehenge, where, mentioned in the lyrics of a ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW song, Science-Fiction, Dana Andrews's Holden jots down ruin-writing to learn what he's supposed to be afraid of, and isn't... yet.

Evil for simply being a rich, powerful man whose astronautics industry afforded him not only a mansion but a trophy wife in Anne Francis, who his employee rocket-scientist Jeff Hunter falls deeply in love with, enough to end the life of Dana Andrews's character for good in director William Conrad's Neo-Noir thriller, BRAINSTORM...

Dana Andrews has played nice guys and jerks, and in NIGHT SONG, his bitter blind pianist is intensely in-between: a romantic melodrama that, in this particular photo, looks very smoky and Noir.

Dana Andrews, Fredric March and Harold Russell return home to Boontown and see the scrap of the war they'd just fought below. A graveyard of airplanes that are now junk. Little does Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) know that he's looking at a prosperous future, and right next to his future father-in-law (Fredric March).

Stalking Dana Andrews is Walter Gotell as ship henchman Jim from DUEL IN THE JUNGLE, who'd eventually kind of replace Bernard Lee in the Roger Moore James Bond films during the late 70's until A VIEW TO A KILL in 1986, and he played heavies or serious types in movies like THE BOYS OF BRAZIL and BLACK SUNDAY.

Before the epic Waldo Lydecker flashback in detailing the backstory of Gene Tierney's seemingly dead LAURA, Dana Andrews as Lt. Mark McPherson acts the gentleman to one of his rudest and most entertaining of suspects, played by Oscar winning Clifton Webb.

Dana Andrews is not so scared of the not-yet-scary Vincent Prince in his Mystery Noir before Horror days of LAURA directed by Otto Preminger, and where Dana got famous.

The cycle of man circa LAURA; but Clifton Webb's Waldo Lydecker wouldn't agree. Although, both he and Dana Andrews's Detective Mike McPherson would be in cahoots about playboy bottom-feeder Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price) filling the caboose spot.

Dames are "always pulling a switch on you" says Dana Andrews as Mark McPherson in the Otto Preminger classic LAURA after being tricked by the title character played by Gene Tierney, having a rainy rendezvous with Vincent Price's flaky playboy Shelby Carpenter.

Dana Andrews and Marilee Earle are surprised by the entrance of an office villain in an office-set Washington D.C. late noir by Jacques Tourneur, and this blog's namesake, THE FEARMAKERS.

By the 1960's Dana Andrew was either serving in big budget or reigning in low budget movies, and here he's a general behind William Holden in a pretty bad ripoff of THE DIRTY DOZEN titled THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE. Dana's b-movies were much better.

Marilee Earle welcomes Dana Andrews into his old office in THE FEARMAKERS, and like any good Film Noir dependable good-girl ingenue, has empathy right off the bat.

A scene or two before the big kiss revelation of love between former friends, Susan Hayward looks jealously over towards Dana Andrews's smoky gaze, where Patricia Roc comments on his footloose working life as Andy Devine looks on in CANYON PASSAGE.

The tough mug between Dana Andrews and Gary Merrill in WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS wound up being choreographer Tommy Tune's boyfriend and stage manager, and died of AIDS in 1994, at the age of 80: or is there another David Wolfe they're confusing this guy with? Below is Wolfe in KANSAS RAIDERS with Dana's crooked friend from CANYON PASSAGE, Brian Donlevy.

"What are your gods, Cornelius" Dana Andrews asks the shallow gold-weigher who dreams of professional banking in Jacques Tourneur's gorgeous Western CANYON PASSAGE: And this image is proof that the Spanish Import Blu Ray is worth the buy.

Dana Andrews with Milburn Stone in the Western Adventure, SMOKE SIGNAL, the same year Stone would start a twenty-year career playing Doc Adams on GUNSMOKE.

Having found the last clue, which lets him know who murdered who and how, too, Dana Andrews as Detective Mike McPherson and Gene Tierney's titular LAURA wait for the suspenseful turnout: for them and the audience in the Otto Preminger Film Noir classic.

Dana Andrews with British import Patricia Roc in CANYON PASSAGE, the only American film she'd ever take part in before returning to her homeland melodramas.

In CRASH DIVE, Dana Andrews loses the girl to Tyrone Power: which lasted until 1944 when LAURA made him a leading man but he'd lose the girl again in ELEPHANT WALK exactly ten years later: Here he's with SWAMP WATER and THE NORTH STAR ingenue Anne Baxter, before she gets stolen...

Soon after Dana Andrews cleaned up Anne Baxter in SWAMP WATER, turning her from an Okefenokee urchin to a small town cutie, she was already his steady girlfriend in the technicolor WW2 propaganda picture CRASH DIVE, where Tyrone Powers (his actual rank on the opening credits) uses his powers to steal her away.

As all Westerns starring or featuring Dana Andrews have something to do with a kangaroo court, here he's searching for the real killer of a murdered man Dana's character was not only blamed for, but he has a rope burn on his neck to prove it: and he wants answers and revenge, with only THREE HOURS TO KILL.

Jeanne Crain was gorgeous in her and Dana Andrews's first of four features, STATE FAIR, and remained so twenty-two years later in HOT RODS IN HELL: here's the picture before that one, MADISON AVENUE, where she's a love interest he's only interested in using to "build up" a client, who's female. 

"There is also a physical side to love; and some women are more demanding than others... And some automobiles are blue," slurs Dana Andrews, drunk in real life and in-character as a reporter in Fritz Lang's WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, here with Ida Lupino as the Film Noir's serial killer, John Barrymore Jr., waits in the wings.

The third of four movies starring Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain is the only where Crain plays the sort of "other woman" on the sidelines wherein Dana's MADISON AVENUE mover/shaker is building-up the career of Eleanor Parker. The scenes between Andrews and Crain, though, are the longest and last throughout the entire story.

Hoagy Carmichael goes cutthroat fishing with his genuinely blind musician friend Dana Andrews, his co-star in CANYON PASSAGE and then THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, and a faking-blind Merle Oberon in NIGHT SONG.

Dana Andrews in Fritz Lang's WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS as an anchorman/reporter on the trail of a killer, who saves his intensity till the end: the rest of the picture he's dead drunk and, according to some sources, he was "blasted" during the entire production.

This Fritz Lang newspaper thriller is strange and uneven, which is often the charm, and plot-wise doesn't always fit into the typical Film Noir trappings but sporadically has that inarguable look and vibe, like this shot of the cop, Howard Duff, working with the reporter, Dana Andrews, to find a serial killer who strikes at the same time the newspaper is working to find him: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS.

Dana Andrews as a blind piano player in the post-war melodrama NIGHT SONG opposite smitten rich girl Merle Oberon, who feigns her own blindness to get close to who's one of Dana's most stubborn and angry characters, and he's play a few, but here with a reason...

Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward reunite for MY FOOLISH HEART, based on a very angry J.D. Salinger short story and directed by Val Lewton underling Mark Robson, who edited CAT PEOPLE for director Jacques Tourneur, who, after his own Lewton tenure, made CANYON PASSAGE starring this later feature's doomed couple, Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward.

Before Vincent Price was spooky, he played Shelby Carpenter, a wimpy playboy who lives in wealth but has no money, and sustains a lie through most of the Film Noir classic LAURA while Dana Andrews, as Detective Mike McPherson, keeps narrowed eyes on him.

Dana Andrews and Eleanor Parker work on MADISON AVENUE where Dana builds up fledgling advertising company owner Parker to milk magnate Eddie Albert while juggling a sporadic romance with his third-time collaborating ingenue Jeanne Crain.