FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Director Jerry Hopper's Western adventure SMOKE SIGNAL, finally streaming in hi-definition, starring Dana Andrews as an Indian-friendly trapper helping an American troop escape angry Indians by way of white-water-rafting... Ironically, the same year, Dana's former directorial collaborator Otto Preminger had another white-water-western in theaters, the more suitably titled RIVER OF NO RETURN... Shown here are William Talman and Rex Reason. 

Dana Andrews' uncredited brother Steve Forrest plays a Nazi soldier, without lines, about to get a knife in SEALED CARGO... so the brothers never actually share screen-time, but it's the first and only time they're in the same movie.

Ushering in 2025, it's the yearly Happy New Year/Birthday for Dana Andrews, and it's also the birth date of his FALLEN ANGEL retired-cop nemesis Charles Bickford.