Young Man With a Horn (1950)—"Music! The kind you can't write. The kind ya just gotta feel."
Streetcar Named Desire (1951)—"A vivid, exciting, vibrant story, because every chapter was written by men."
Odds Against Tomorrow (1951)—"These aren't men. They're two sticks of dynamite!"
Man With the Golden Arm (1955)—"A subject that has never before been seen in a film."
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)—"A nice loose fit, with no lines."
The Killing (1956)—"You like money. You have a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart."
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)—"Alright fellas, here they come. Let's get with it."
I Want to Live (1958)—"The wildest of the jazzed-up generation."
Manchurian Candidate (1959)—"The chilling classic returns!"
Shadows (1959)—"For this is a real story about real people living in the shadows of the neon, crazy streets of Manhattan."
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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