FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Interestingly, Dana Andrews's bitter and reluctant, pay-for-hire sea captain character brings up the ship Exodus, which would be a novel... adapted to a movie by his multi-director Otto Preminger a decade after George Sherman's SWORD IN THE DESERT with Jeff Chandler, Stephen McNally, and the lovely Marta Toren, who would later play Dana's love interest in ASSIGNMENT: PARIS.

"I must say, for a charming, intelligent girl, you certainly surrounded yourself with a remarkable collection of dopes." Dana Andrews to Gene Tierney in Otto Preminger's LAURA.

Dana Andrews reluctantly answered the call when asked "does anybody know how to fly a plane?" by stewardess Peggy King in the original/straight version of AIRPLANE titled ZERO HOUR.

As the title finally shapes up into the third act of DUEL IN THE JUNGLE, Dana Andrews, as breezy yet intrepid insurance investigator Scott Walters, shows his hand with a gun, and target. 

Almost a decade before Marlon Brando yelled "Stella!", Dana Andrews as con artist Eric Stanton says it quieter, but equally as intense, hearing of Linda Darnell as Stella's death while newly married to rich girl Alice Faye, who quit movies entirely because Darnell, even dead, stole the scenes away from the first-billed singer/starlet in her first, and last, dramatic role, Otto Preminger's FALLEN ANGEL.

Here's an image, from Dana Andrews and director Otto Preminger's LAURA followup, FALLEN ANGEL, that epitomizes Film Noir: where Dana's Eric Stanton sulks near the cheap motel's neon sign, and though his new wife Alice Faye lies in the bed nearby, he's all alone.

Dana Andrews angrily stands up to the swamp-surrounded small town bullies in Jean Renoir's first American-directed feature, SWAMP WATER, with Eugene Pallette as a crooked sheriff backing Dana's CANYON PASSAGE enemy Ward Bond.

Fifteen-years may not sound like a long time now, but from 1950 to 1965 many things changed, including the overall culture, and the Film Noir medium, in which Dana Andrews acted under Otto Preminger from LAURA to WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, were in the past; ironically, so were patriotic war films like IN HARM'S WAY as Dana played Admiral Broderick, a detested leader Wayne replaces during and after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

Strangely enough, this gorgeous, high-cheek-boned starlet was a model... on the radio! And Doris Fesette provides a non-speaking, uncredited cameo as a "Club Patron" Dana Andrews buys a drink for, just to get her to stop flirting, in MADISON AVENUE.

Great colors in this shot from DUEL IN THE JUNGLE, a romantic adventure starring Dana Andrews as an insurance investigator from New York in London, with Jeanne Crain, and with his clothes and expressions, and those wall shadows, this shot has a touch of Noir. 

Added some sepia to Dana Andrews looking at himself as a con artist named Eric Stanton, who enters a seacoast Northern California small town on a bus, with a dollar in his pocket, and might just leave with a rich wife in Otto Preminger's LAURA followup, with even more creative camera shots and a neater Noirish title, FALLEN ANGEL.