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Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir (hardback)
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Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir (hardback)

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Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir

by Robert Strom

Foreword by Mimi Gibson

 

6x9 size

416 pages

ISBN 9798887712017

 

"Inspired by my friend Bobby Driscoll’s performance in The Window (1949), Robert Strom has written a groundbreaking book. The research and fifty interviews offer rare insight into the Golden Age of Hollywood and the genre of film noir. Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir is the film historian’s labor of love."

– Russ Tamblyn

Actress Mimi Gibson of Strange Intruder (1956) and The Brothers Rico (1957) calls author Robert Strom the “Detective of Film Noir”.

BOOK REVIEW by "The Paradise":
https://theparadise.ng/author-writes-about-children-of-the-past-in-hollywood-paradise-post/

RAIDO INTERVIEW 

Nancy's Bookshelf: A chat with Chico's "Detective of Film Noir" | NSPR

 

SHOCK CINEMA BOOK REVIEW

CRIES IN THE NIGHT: Children in Film Noir
by Robert Strom (BearManor Media; bearmanormedia.com; paperback: $38.00).
Numerous books have already been devoted to the film noir genre, but author Robert Strom brings an altogether unique perspective to this 416-page volume by focusing exclusively on the child actors who appeared in these gritty films from the 1940s into the ‘60s. Some had speaking parts or supporting roles integral to the plot; others made only brief appearances without any credit. The majority of this book consists of an
alphabetical cataloging of these young actors, with mini-biographies of more notable names, film noir filmographies, dialogue snippets, and (best of all) short but informative new interviews with over 50 of these performers. Contributors include David Bair (GUN CRAZY), Pat Cardi (BRAINSTORM), Richard Eyer (THE DESPERATE HOURS), Jimmy Hunt
(PITFALL), Gordon Gebert (THE NARROW MARGIN), Mimi Gibson (STRANGE INTRUDER), Mark Keuning (DARK CITY), Terry Ann Ross (CRY TERROR!), Jeri Weil (VIOLENT SATURDAY), Gigi Perreau (SHADOW ON THE WALL), along with a handful of more recognizable interviewees — MY THREE SONS castmembers Stanley Livingston (THE BONNIE PARKER STORY) and Tim Considine (UNCHAINED), FATHER KNOWS BEST’s Billy Gray (TALK ABOUT A STRANGER), SPIDER BABY’s Beverly Washburn (THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK), and DAYS OF OUR LIVES star Susan Seaforth Hayes (THE TIJUANA STORY). Peppered with photos and capped off with a 27-page, A-Z appendix of the hundreds of films mentioned in the book, it’s an exhaustive and enlightening look at an under-appreciated aspect of this hardboiled showbiz niche.