FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

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.