Roy Rowland

Victim Blaming in the 1950s with Film-Noir ‘Witness to Murder’

Victim Blaming in the 1950s with Film-Noir ‘Witness to Murder’

Roy Rowland’s Witness to Murder’ from the 1950s noir cycle, is an exercise in paranoia from a woman’s point of view.

‘Slander’ Airs Out the Dirty Laundry of the Genteel ’50’s

‘Slander’ Airs Out the Dirty Laundry of the Genteel ’50’s

Slander hasn't dated much at all; it still engages the viewer with something harsh and sordid under its veneer of '50s gentility.