{"id":34639,"date":"2023-12-04T05:43:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34639"},"modified":"2023-12-04T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:44:06","slug":"storm-fear-1955-starring-cornel-wilde-jean-wallace-dan-duryea-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34639","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Storm Fear&#8221; (1955) starring Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace &#038; Dan Duryea \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z120423zview_stormfear.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Storm Fear <\/em>(1955)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Cornel Wilde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>Horton Foote <\/strong>based on<strong> STORM FEAR<\/strong> by<strong> Clinton Seeley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Lee Grant, David Stollery, Dennis Weaver, Steven Hill <\/strong>and <strong>Chet Huntley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>IT HITS LIKE A THUNDERBOLT!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A bad winter storm is coming.\u00a0 Fred Blake (Duryea), his wife Elizabeth (Wallace) and their son, David (Stollery) live in a remote mountainside farm house.\u00a0 Fred is a sickly and unhappy man.\u00a0 Just before the storm hits, Fred&#8217;s estranged brother, Charlie (Wilde) and two others show up.\u00a0 Charlie has been shot in the leg.\u00a0 The bullet is still lodged there.\u00a0 His companions are Benji (Hill), a nervous, bully and Edna (Grant).\u00a0 Obviously the three are on the run from the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the storm hits, Fred learns that the three robbed a bank.\u00a0 A police officer was killed in the process.\u00a0 Charlie promises they will take off when the weather clears.\u00a0 But as the night progresses, we learn secrets that had been long buried.\u00a0 Worried that the family will become witnesses against them, Benji plans to kill them all, including Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be long until sunup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Storm Fear<\/em> marked Cornell Wilde&#8217;s feature film directorial debut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee Grant had been nominated for a <em>Best Supporting Actress Oscar<\/em> for her role in 1951&#8217;s <em>The Detective<\/em>.\u00a0 It was her first feature film.\u00a0 Because of Joseph McCarthy&#8217;s red scare, Grant was blacklisted and didn&#8217;t get another feature film role until Cornell Wilde cast her in <em>Storm Fear.<\/em>\u00a0 Grant would then go on to a long career as an actress, director and producer.\u00a0 She was nominated three more times for a <em>Best Supporting Actress<\/em>\u00a0<em>Academy Award<\/em>, winning in 1976 for her role in <em>Shampoo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was surprised to learn that Eddie Muller is not a fan of<em> Storm Fear<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not one to argue with the <em>Czar of Noir<\/em>, but <em>Storm Fear<\/em> resonated with me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z120423zview_stormfear2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Fear (1955) Director: Cornel Wilde Writer: Horton Foote based on STORM FEAR by Clinton Seeley Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34698,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639\/revisions\/34698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}