'House of Strangers'

The kind of movies the braintrusts call "film noir" are mighty powerful. And I confess, I love them very much. The tough dramas hold a person's interest extremely well. Recently, I got to watching a good example of this kind of film magic. It was a jewel of a movie called 'House of Strangers.' Edward G. Robinson was in the lead playing a guy named Gino Monetti. The character of Irene Bennett is played by the marvelous Susan Hayward and the person named Max Monetti is played by the wily actor, Richard Conte. Max gets wildly mad with his brothers and all kinds of tough stuff ensues, but a little later on old Max comes to the realization that his dad had brought about all the bitterness and disgust and then (believe me this is why film noir cinema gets interesting) after careful negotiating the family members finally work out a bit of true peace. The unique spirited passionate mood of this quite tense 'House of Strangers' makes it quite a nice piece of cinematic art.