FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Birthday Otto Preminger, who was to Dana Andrews what Alfred Hitchcock was to James Stewart or Cary Grant, only better: from LAURA to FALLEN ANGEL to WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS and then a reunion for IN HARM'S WAY.

Twilight Time's SWAMP WATER is one of several Dana Andrews movies given their limited edition Blu Ray treatment, and now prices over seventy bucks: Directed by French import Jean Renoir (escaped from Nazi occupied France) sans a few studio inserts, it's pretty entertaining, taking place in a rural town nearby a dangerous southern swamp, where nothing survives but escaped convict Walter Brennan, taking in Dana... the stubborn but kindhearted son of equally stubborn Walter Huston... who eventually realizes his future FALLEN ANGEL cohort John Carradine holds all the cards.

  The 19th of November always rolls around and is the birthday of both Clifton Webb and Gene Tierney in the Film Noir classic LAURA starring Dana Andrews, trying to get the titular starlet away from her friends, shady and flaky both.

Dana Andrews shakes hands with James Bond veteran villain Donald Pleasence in the Bond clone INNOCENT BYSTANDERS with once Bond contender Stanley Baker, who both the American and British corporate baddies (Andrews and Pleaseance respectively) manipulate from the sidelines.

Villains from THE FEARMAKERS include Dick Foran (looking very Ben Johnson) and his thug Kelly Thorsden.

  Dana Andrews as a bitter blind pianist lights a smoke in John Cromwell's melodrama NIGHT SONG.

Capture of Dana Andrews from the trailer for SPY IN YOUR EYE , one of eight films he starred in during his busiest year, 1965.

Dana Andrews with GUNSMOKE actor Milburn Stone, the same year in fact he'd play Doc on that series here in SMOKE SIGNAL.

Dana Andrews with George Saunders in the Cold War Thriller ASSIGNMENT: PARIS where Dana plays a newspaper reporter like he'd done in BERLIN CORRESPONDENT and would in WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS.

Dana Andrews dines with Donald Pleasence in the espionage action flick INNOCENT BYSTANDERS starring Stanley Baker, with Dana basically a Bond-villain type here.

From Woody Allen's RADIO DAYS: A group of boys, including Seth Green as young Woody Allen, basically, are talking about their favorite starlets. "I like Rita Hayworth." "I like Betty Grable." "I like Dana Andrews." "Are you kidding, Dana Andrews is a man... Haven't you seen Crash Dive?" "A man... with a name like Dana?"

Watching BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III where Christopher Lloyd, back in a simpler time in a rural small town, falls for a seemingly doomed school teacher, brought Dana Andrews's NO TIME LIKE THE PAST to mind: a time-traveler who falls for doomed school teacher Patricia Breslin.

It's bad quality from YouTube but either way, DeForest Kelley let his friend Michael Landon, who was hot on BONANZA before STAR TREK even started, do his dirty work, stunt-doubling a fight with Dana Andrews in TOWN TAMER.