July in movie history - Cage of Evil (1960):

Cage of Evil

directed by Edward L. Cahn,

written by Orville H. Hampton,

based on a story by Orville H. Hampton and Alexander Richards,

was released in the United States in July, 1960.
Exact release date unknown.
Music by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter.

Cast:

Ronald Foster, Patricia Blair, Harp McGuire, John Maxwell, Preston Hanson, Doug Henderson, Hugh Sanders, Helen Kleeb, Robert Shayne, Owen Bush, Ted Knight, Howard McLeod, Eve Brent, Henry Darrow, Abel Franco, Joseph Hamilton, Jack Kenney, Gregg Martell, Patrick Miller, Ralph Neff, Ralph Sanford, Jack Tesler.

On this day in movie history - The Mask of Dimitrios (1944):

The Mask of Dimitrios

directed by Jean Negulesco,

written by Frank Gruber,

based on the novel A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler,

was released in the United States on July 1, 1944.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:

Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Steven Geray, Florence Bates, Eduardo Ciannelli, Kurt Katch, Marjorie Hoshelle, Georges Metaxa, John Abbott, Monte Blue, David Hoffman.

July in movie history - Chicago Syndicate (1955):

Chicago Syndicate

directed by Fred F. Sears,

written by Joseph Hoffman,

based on a story by William Sackheim,

was released in the United States in July 1955.

Exact release date unknown.

Cast:

Dennis O’Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Xavier Cugat, Allison Hayes, Richard H. Cutting, Chris Alcaide, William Challee, John Zaremba, George Brand, Hugh Sanders, Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra, Nina Borget, John Breen, Al Cantor.

Born on this day – Andre Braugher:

Andre Braugher

Actor

Producer

July 1, 1962 – December 11, 2023

Credits:

The Good Fight (2022); She Said (2022); American Experience (1993–2022); Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021); Spirit Untamed (2021); BoJack Horseman (2017); New Girl (2016); Emily & Tim (2015); Axe Cop (2015); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011–2015); The Gambler (2014); Last Resort (2012–2013); The Baytown Outlaws (2012); House (2009–2012); Men of a Certain Age (2009–2011); Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010); Salt (2010); Miami Medical (2010); Passengers (2008); The Andromeda Strain (2008); Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007); The Mist (2007); Live! (2007); Poseidon (2006); Thief (2006); The Jury (2004); Salem's Lot (2004); Hack (2002–2004); Soldier's Girl (2003); Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002); 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002); West Point: The First 200 Years (2002); American Masters (2002); One from the Heart (2001); Gideon's Crossing (2000–2001); The Practice (2001); Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2001); A Better Way to Die (2000); Duets (2000); Frequency (2000); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Homicide: The Movie (2000); All the Rage (1999); Love Songs (1999); Passing Glory (1999); Thick as Thieves (1999); Louisville (1998); Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1998); City of Angels (1998); Get on the Bus (1996); Primal Fear (1996); Law & Order (1996); The Tuskegee Airmen (1995); Striking Distance (1993); Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993); Class of '61 (1993); The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990); Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture (1990); Kojak: None So Blind (1990); Murder in Mississippi (1990); Kojak: It's Always Something (1990); Kojak: Flowers for Matty (1990); Glory (1989); Kojak: Fatal Flaw (1989); Kojak: Ariana (1989).

Born on this day – Lisa Blount:

Lisa Blount

Actress

Producer

July 1, 1957 – October 27, 2010

Credits:

An American Story (1992); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); Annihilator (1986); Big John (2006); Birdseye (2002); Blind Fury (1989); Boone (1984); Box of Moonlight (1996); CBS Summer Playhouse (1988); Cease Fire (1985); Chrystal (2004); Cracker: Mind Over Murder (1997); Cut and Run (1984); Dead & Buried (1981); Deodato Holocaust (2019); Femme Fatale (1991); Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story (1997); Great Balls of Fire! (1989); Greed Kills (2005); If... Dog... Rabbit (1999); In Sickness and in Health (1992); Judging Amy (2002); Judicial Consent (1995); Magnum, P.I. (1987); Moonlighting (1986); Murder Between Friends (1994); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); Murder, She Wrote (1990); Needful Things (1993); Nightflyers (1987); Out Cold (1989); Outlaw Country (2012); Picket Fences (1992); Prince of Darkness (1987); Profit (1996–1997); Radioactive Dreams (1984); Randy and the Mob (2007); September 30, 1955 (1977); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982); Slap Shot (1977); Sons and Daughters (1991); South of Reno (1988); Stalked (1994); Starman (1986); Stormin' Home (1985); The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002); The Accountant (2001); The Client (1995); The Hitchhiker (1986); The Swap (1979); Traffic (1999); Trash (2003); Unholy Matrimony (1988); What Waits Below (1984).

Born on this day – Karen Black:

Karen Black

Actress

Singer

Writer

July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013

Born on this day – David Prowse:

David Prowse

Actor

Bodybuilder

July 1, 1935 – November 28, 2020

Born on this day – Sydney Pollack:

Sydney Pollack

Director

Producer

Actor, July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008

Born on this day – Florence Stanley:

Florence Stanley

Actress

July 1, 1924 – October 3, 2003

Born on this day – Olivia de Havilland:

Olivia de Havilland

Actress

July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020

Born on this day – Willie Dixon:

Willie Dixon

Blues singer

Musician

Songwriter

Arranger

Producer

July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992

Born on this day – Jean Stafford:

Jean Stafford

Writer

July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979

Born on this day – Virginia Vance:

Virginia Vance

Actress

July 1, 1902 - October 13, 1942

Born on this day – James M. Cain:

James M. Cain

Writer

July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977

Credits:

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934); Double Indemnity (1936); Serenade (1937); The Embezzler (1940); Mildred Pierce (1941); Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942); Career in C Major: And Other Fiction (1943); Past All Dishonor (1946); The Butterfly (1947); Sinful Woman (1947); The Moth (1948); Everybody Does It (1949); Jealous Woman (1950); The Root of His Evil (1951); Galatea (1953); Mignon (1962); The Magician's Wife (1965); Rainbow's End (1975); The Institute (1976); Cloud Nine (1984); The Enchanted Isle (1985); Sixty Years of Journalism (1985); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Murder On The Railways (2003); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); The Cocktail Waitress (2012); Books to Die For (2012); A Bad Woman (2015); The Movie Book (2016).

Movies and television:

Algiers (1938); Blockade (1938); Buai laju-laju (2004); Butterfly (1981); Cineficción Radio (2021); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Everybody Does It (1949); Girl in the Cadillac (1995); Gypsy Wildcat (1944); Interlude (1957 / 1968); ITV Play of the Week (1960); Konto ausgeglichen (1959); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Mildred Pierce (1945 / 2011); Money and the Woman (1940); Obsession (1943); Out of the Past (1947); Passion (1998); Puissance de la parole (1988); Serenade (1956); She Made Her Bed (1934); Slightly Scarlet (1956); Stand Up and Fight (1939); Teledrama (1957); The Last Turning (1939); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 / 1981); The Postman Always Rings Twice: The Radio Play (1947); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); Today (1969); When Tomorrow Comes (1939); Wife, Husband and Friend (1939); Yu hai qing mo (1967).

Born on this day – Alice Guy-Blaché:

Alice Guy-Blaché

Director

Writer

Producer

Actress

July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968

Credits:

A Child's Sacrifice (1910); A Comedy of Errors (1912); A Costly Pledge (1911) A Fateful Gift (1910); A Fool and His Money (1912); A Four-Year-Old Heroine (1907); A House Demolished and Rebuilt (1901); A House Divided (1913) Looking for an Apartment (1906); A Man and the Woman (1917); A Man's a Man (1912); A Midnight Visitor (1911); Has Reporter's Romance (1911); A Severe Test (1913); A Solax Celebration (1912); Has Sticky Woman (1906); A Terrible Lesson (1912) A Terrible Night (1913); A Widow and Her Child (1910); Across the Mexican Line (1911); Algie, the Miner (1912); Alice Guy - The Stranger of the 7th Art (2021); Alice Guy or the Childhood of Cinema (1996); Alice Guy shot a phonoscene on the Buttes-Chaumont pose theatre (1907); Alice Guy-Blaché (1997); Allumeur-Marche (1905); Anna, what are you waiting for? (1906); After the Party (1904); Arrival of Harléquin (1900); Arrival of Pierette and Pierrot (1900); Au bal de Flore (1900); Au cabaret (1899); To the henhouse! (1905); At refectory (1897); Avenue de l'opéra (1900); Badinage (1900); Swimming in the torrent (1897); Japanese Ballet (1900); Ballet libella (1897) Barbara Frietchia (1915); Snowball Fight (1900); Pillow Fight (1900); Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018); Beasts of the Jungle (1913); Behind the Mask (1917); Blighted Lives (1912); Blood and Water (1913); Good evening ladies (1902); Broken Oaths (1912) Burstup Homes (1913); Burstup Homes' Murder Case (1913); Cake-walk of the clock (1903); Cake-walk nègre (1905); Burglar and agent (1904); What a Flag Is (1909); It is a ingénue (1905); Millinery and mechanical charcuterie (1900); Charles Pathé and Léon Gaumont, the first giants of cinema (2016); Charmant froufrou (1901); At The Barber (1896); At the dentist's (1905); Chez le magnetizer (1897); At the Farrier (1900); At the Photographer's (1900); Dog Playing Ball (1905); Child of the Tenements (1912); Surgery fin de siècle (1900); Human Target (1904); Cinéast(e)s (2015); Cinépanorama (1957); Clown in a Bag (1904); Clown, dog and balloon (1905); Comme on fait son bed on se couché (1903); How sir takes a bath (1903); Comment on disperse les crowds (1904); How to sleep at Paris! (1905); Companions of the Present (1903); Baby Contest (1904); Conscience de prêtre (1906); Corinne in Dollyland (1911) Bedtime of a Parisienne (1900); Sausage Race (1907); Bull Race in Nîmes (1906); Short Scale (1899); Cousins of Sherlocko (1913) Cucurbitaceae (1905); Culture Intensive (1904); Cupid and the Comet (1911); Dance de l'ivresse (1900); In Les coulisses (1900); Dance of the Seasons (1900); Dance of the Butterfly (1900); Dance du pas des foulards par des almées (1900); Dance of the Veil (1900); Dance eccentric (1902); Danse fantaisiste (1902); Lotus Flower Dance (1897); Dance Moorish (1902); Serpentine Dance (1900); Serpentine Dance by Mrs. Bob Walter (1899); Dances (1900); Basque Dances (1901); Declaration of Love (1900); Move to the wooden bell (1898 / 1907); Departure for the holidays (1904); Dick Whittington and his Cat (1913); Customs officers and smugglers (1905); Dranem Performs 'The True Jiu-Jitsu' (1905); Dublin Dan (1912); Tragic Duel (1904); Belongings of the sea (1906); Electrocuted (1904); In the classroom (1897); On Duty (1902); Abduction in an automobile and a hasty marriage (1903); Entrance and exit of the mine (1899); Error de Poivrot (1904); Miscarriage of Justice (1899); Esmeralda (1905); Spain (1905); And the woman created Hollywood (2016); Being a Vegetable (1905); Falling Leaves (1912); Fanfan the Tulip (1907); Cook's Stuffings (1902); Faust and Mephistopheles (1903); Five O'Clock Tea (1905); Masked Follies (1901); Fra Diavolo (1912); France and Russia (1897); Frivolity (1901); Frozen on Love's Trail (1912); Fruits of season (1902); Gage d'amour (1904); Gavotte, directorate (1900); God Disposes (1912) Greater Love Hath No Man (1911) William Tell (1900); Hearts Unknown (1912) Her Father's Sin (1910); His Best Friend (1911); His Double (1912) His Mother's Hymn (1911); His Musical Soul (1912); Hollywood Insider (2020–2021); House of Cards (1917); Hubby Does the Washing (1912); Hussars and grisettes (1901); Idyll (1897); Interrupted Idyll (1897); Illusionist Stunning (1903); In a Bamboo Hut (1905); In the Year 2000 (1912); Unfortunate Intervention (1902); I have a chafer in my pants (1906); I take you there! (1898); Jesus before Pilate (1898); Young Man and the Trottin (1905); Jocko musician (1903); Kelly from the Emerald Isle (1913); La bonne absinthe (1899); The Last Supper (1898); The charity of the conjurer (1905); The Hunt for the Burglar (1903); The sock (1906); The Concierge (1900); The Conquest of Trottin (1906); The courtyard Miracles (1902); The Nativity Scene in Bethlehem (1898); The Crinoline (1906); Dance of the belly (1900); The Recalcitrant Tooth (1902); The Descent from the Cross (1899); The hunger... the opportunity ... The Soft Grass (1904); The Cabbage Fairy (1896); The Fairy with cabbages, or the birth of children (1900); The Woman of the Mask (1906); The daughter to her mother (1905); The Enchanted Flask (1902); The Flagellation (1898); The Flight to Egypt (1898); La gavotte (1902); La gavotte de la reine (1904); The Gigue (1902); The Hierarchy in Love (1906); La leçon de pipeau (1904); The Professor Hamilton's hand or the King of Dollars (1903); The malagueña and the bullfighter (1905); La mattchiche (1905); The Bad Soup (1899); The Mass of midnight (1906); The Fly (1903); La paimpolaise (1905); The Peasant Woman (1900); The Paris Underworld (1906); The Little Magician (1900); La polka des trottins (1905); The Fanciful Hen (1903); The Black Doll (1900); The First Cigarette (1904); The First Bowl (1902); The Modern Regiment (1906); The Toy Queen (1900); The Resurrection (1899); The Hunter's Dream (1904); The Source (1900); The statue (1905); The Tarantella (1900); The Enchanted Suitcase (1905); The Truth About The Ape-Man (1906); The Life of Christ (1898); The Sailor's Life (1906); The cell car (1906); Lady Betty's Strategy (1910); The Angelus (1900); The Harlequine (1900); The Assassination of the Lyon Courier (1904); The Attack on a Stagecoach (1904); Modern Lavatory (1901); The Blind Man (1897 / 1899); The Blind End of the Century (1898); The airship 'The Fatherland' (1906); The Baby (1900); The Embarrassing Baby (1905); The Bank Note (1906); The Cosmopolitan Bolero (1905); The Cake-walk of the Nouveau Cirque (1905); Tabarin's Hat (1896); The Stations of the Cross (1898); The Ragpicker (1899); The Clubmen (1896); The Sleeping Cab Driver (1897); The suckling pig (1906); The Cockerel by Cook and Rilly (1905); Bedtime of Yvette (1897); The Crime of the Rue du Temple (1904); The Crucifixion (1899); The children's luncheon (1899); The Departure of Harlequin and Pierrette (1900); The infantryman Guignard (1906); The Bewitched Fiancé (1903); The gamekeeper's son (1906); The Scrubber (1907); The Garden of Olives (1898); The Forgotten Garden: The life and work of Alice Guy-Blaché (1996); The Day of the Term (1904); Le kepi (1905); The Rabbit (1900); The Learned Lion (1902); The Convent Liqueur (1903); The lorgnon accusateur (1905); The Balloon Merchant (1902); The Coconut Merchant (1900); The Sailor (1900); The Monowrestler (1904); Le Noël de Monsieur le curé (1906); The cut-off trousers (1905); The Pavement (1905); The Fisherman in the Torrent (1897); The little Grégoire (1905); The Little Basket (1905); The Colonel's Messenger, (1897); The plateau (1905); Le Polichinelle (1900); The Apple Tree (1902); The pompom unfortunate (1904); The Gardener's Awakening (1904); Le rire du nègre (1905); The blood of Adonis giving birth to the red rose (1900); The Fisherman's Dream (1906); Le tango (1905); Pierrot's Will (1904); The Dog Shearer (1899); The cooper (1899); Le trou de mon quai (1905); The Sacrilegious Thief (1903); Lesson dance (1897 / 1900); Boxing Lessons (1898); The Scotch (1900); Reading daily (1901); The Child of the Barricade (1907); The Shoemaker's Child (1905); Entry into Jerusalem (1898); The Tightrope Walker (1902); The Apaches Not Lucky (1903); The Adventures of a Voyageur Trop Hurry (1903); The benefits of the cinematograph (1904); The Poachers (1903); The Burglars (1897); The burglars of Paris (1904); The Clowns (1902); The Janitors (1896); The dangers of alcoholism (1899); The Demolitionists (1896); The Two Rivals (1904); The Dragoons of Villars (1906); The Druids (1906); The Cheeky: Cinema in the women's (2022); Children of the Miracle (1904); Jocko's Farces (1898); The masons (1905); Les malabares, acrobats (1902); Les p'tits pois (1905); The Secrets of Conjuring Unveiled (1904); The Lumière sisters: 100 years of women's cinema (1996); The Surprises of the Display (1903); The Waves (1901); L'Habanera (1900); The Honor of the Corsican (1906); White Lilac (1905); L'indiscret (1896); Little Tich and His Funny Feet (1900) The eye, the brush and the cinematograph: Birth of an Art (2021); The Flying Bird (1904); Love's Test (1911) Lui (1904); The Utility of X-rays (1898); American Wrestlers (1903); Mrs. Ducordon, concierge (1906); Madame's Cravings (1907); Black Magic (1904); Making an American Citizen (1912); Poultry market (1900); Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913); Mauvais coeur puni (1904); Medor showers his master (1906); Misadventure a charcoal burner (1899); Micky's Pal (1912); Mignon (1912); Military and nanny (1904); Mireille (1906); Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902); Miss Helyett: Portrait Air (1905); Miss Lina Esbrard, cosmopolitan dancer and serpentine (1902); Mixed Pets (1911); Express Modelling (1903); Rabbit Currency (1899); Death of Adonis (1900); Mrs. Cranston's Jewels (1912) Mrs. Richard Dare (1910); My Madonna (1915) Ne bougeons plus (1903); No! You won't go out without me! (1911); Our Good Students (1903); Officer Henderson (1913); We are drunk, but we have heart (1905); One Touch of Nature (1910); Out of the Arctic (1911); Paris at Night (1904); Parson Sue (1912); No Columbine (1901); No Grace (1900); Pas des fans (1900); Pas du poignard (1900); Step Japanese (1900); Pastry Chef and Chimney Sweep (1904); Poor Fireman (1906); Painter and drunkard (1905); Phantom Paradise (1912); Pierrot, Murderer (1904); Playing Trumps (1912); Polin, The Anatomy of the Conscript (1905); Animated portrait taken by L and A Lumière (1895); Indigestible soup (1903); Pour shaker la salade (1902); Put Out (1911); Quadrille réaliste (1902); Indiscreet Questions (1906); Roundup of dogs (1904); Child abduction by the Romanichels (1904); Reel Herstory: Tea Real Story of Reel Women (2014); Reformation (1907); Rehearsal in a circus (1903); Return from the Fields (1900); Ring of Love (1911) Road Leads Home (1911); Robert Macaire and Bertrand (1905); Romeo Trapped (1905); Rose of the Circus (1911); Midwife First Class (1902); Saharet, bolero (1907); Wet jump of M. Plick (1900); Love Scene (1901); Scene of Evamotage (1898); Scene drunkenness (1901); Scènes directoire (1904); Sealed Lips (1906); Relief for shipwrecked (1903); Precipitate Service (1903); Shadows of the Moulin Rouge (1913); Si ça t'va (1905); Souls in the Shadow (1912) Starting Something (1911) Stronger Than Death (1920) Stupefying! (2017); Suite de la danse (1900); Surprise of a house at dawn (1898); Sydney's Toys (1900); Tarnished Reputations (1920); Tears (2014); Such is taken who thought he took (1901); Attempt murder on the railway (1904); The Absent-Minded Shoeblack (1905) The Adventurer (1917); The Animated Bathtub (1912); The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906) The Blood Stain (1912) The Coming of Sunbeam (1913) The Consequences of Feminism (1906); The Cure (1911) The Detective's Dog (1912); The Devil's Seven Castles (1906) The Dream Woman (1914); The Drunken Mattress (1906); The Empress (1917) The Enchanted Bean (1904) The Equine Spy (1912) The Face at the Window (1912); The Finger Prints (1912); The Girl and the Burglar (1911) The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912) The Glue (1907) The Great Adventure (1918) The Heart of a Painted Woman (1915); The High Cost of Living (1912); The Irresistible Piano (1907); The Legend of St. Nicholas (1904); The Little Hunchback (1913); The Love of the Flag (1912); The Lure (1914) The Monster and the Girl (1914); The Nightcap (1911) The Ocean Waif (1916) The Pawnshop (1910); The Pink Garters (1912) The Pit and the Pendulum (1913) The Reformation of Mary (1912); The Rogues of Paris (1913) The Rolling Bed (1907) The Sergeant's Daughter (1910); The Sewer (1912) The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915); The Song of the Wage Slave (1915); The Stepmother (1906) The Strike (1912) The Thief (1913); The Tigress (1914) The Vertigo Years (2013); The Violin Maker of Nuremberg (1911); The Woman Behind the Man (1912); The Woman of Mystery (1914) The Wooing of Alice (1912); Tramp Strategy (1911); Transformations (1899 / 1904); Treasures on the Wing (1912); Triste fin d'un vieux savant (1904); Deceived but content (1902); Two Little Rangers (1912); Two Suits (1910); A case of divorce (1906); A Lunch (1899); A Shoe for a Ham (1906); A race of Jumping (1906); A Rolling History (1906); A wedding at Lake Saint-Fargeau (1905); A Restless Night (1897); A toothache (1900); A scene in the office particular view through the keyhole (1902); Waltz of the Directory (1900); Slow Waltz (1900); Valsons (1905); Vampire (1915); Vendetta (1901); Venus and Adonis (1900); Old Prints (1904); Viens, poupoule (1905); Villa robbed (1905); V'la le rétameur (1905); Journey to Spain (1906); What Do Those Old Films Mean? (1986); What Is to Be, Will Be (1910); What Will People Say? (1916); When You and I Were Young (1917); Yesterday Is History (2021).

Recommended reading - The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain (1934):

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain.

Description:

“A good, swift, violent story.” – Dashiell Hammett.

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution — a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.

“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man … has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent.” – James M. Cain.

Born on this day – William Wyler:

William Wyler

Director

Producer

July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981

Born on this day – Charles Laughton:

Charles Laughton

Actor

July 1, 1899 – December 15, 1962

Mabel Seeley, on imagination:

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

– Mabel Seeley.