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Actor · Voice actor

Don Brodie

2
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13:00
average
26 min
in total
On film.briefs2
13:00

Detour

Edgar G. Ulmer · 1945

A broke pianist hitchhikes west, accidentally kills a stranger, assumes his identity, and is then blackmailed by a woman who knew the dead man — all narrated in weary voiceover as if the outcome were settled before the first frame. Made in 1945 on a tight budget by Edgar G. Ulmer for PRC, it distils noir fatalism into stark, economical form: minimal sets, precise sound design, and performances that refuse empathy. Its power lies in repetition, inevitability, and the quiet horror of consequences that arrive not with fanfare but with the hum of a police siren.

13:00

Pinocchio

Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Norm Ferguson, T. Hee · 1940

A woodcarver's puppet is brought to life and told he must prove himself brave, truthful and unselfish before he can become a real boy, guided — imperfectly — by a cricket appointed as his conscience. Made for $2.5 million as Disney's second feature, the film pushed effects animation further than Snow White had, rendering water, smoke and lightning with a level of realism the studio hadn't attempted before, even as it lost money on first release when the war cut off its overseas markets.