Remembering Joseph Pevney

This discreet actor and little-recognised director died just over a year ago.  He was in fact a leading filmmaker much appreciated by fans of American noir films.  Noir expert Eddie Muller’s excellent website filmnoirfoundation.org, has an article on him from the site’s newsletter, Noir City Sentinel.

He directed Tony Curtis in the very good Flesh And Fury (1952) and James Cagney and Dorothy Malone in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957).  He also worked a lot in TV, directing many episodes of Star Trek, Bonanza, The Virginian, Mission: Impossible and Little House on the Prairie.

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Pevney (right) on the set of Twilight for the Gods (1958), with Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse

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Cover of the video of Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

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16/07/09