This would work equally well with the intro & opening riff of 'Loud Love'.

I once heard someone describe Soundgarden as 'steel girders sinking into a swamp', and Limo Wreck exemplifies that metaphor for me.

Or the word 'myself', for that matter.

Great! Thanks, will do. Sorry, just checked this.

That's true, and his films are so damn consistently great. But I'd peg Fuller as more of an auteur-despite-himself than a journeyman. It only takes about 10 seconds to realise you're watching a Fuller film — e.g. the woman screaming at the start of 'House of Bamboo', that bizarre scuffle at the start of 'The Naked…

It's definitely a mixed legacy. I think the best thing about journeymen was that their styles and predilictions emerged very loosely and gradually. (This piece is good on Curtiz: https://filmschoolrejects.c…

Ah, I love that film. 'And I woke up… in the crazy house!' It's just utterly ridiculous, probably the broadest, nuttiest noir ever made.

There is something quite special about the 'journeyman director' role during the studio system's heyday (Michael Curtiz, Robert Wise, etc.). Churning out something in a different genre every six months or so would have been wonderful, and that frenetic pace was responsible for many, many gems.

…and nobody plays a hungry shark on the make like he does. That sharp-toothed grin, especially in 'Out of the Past'.

Yep. Seconded. There was a very meaningful glance between them across the table.