Man Hunt (1941)
Fritz Lang’s anti-Nazi film noir classic. Starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, and Roddy McDowell. Directed by Fritz Lang. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols.
Fritz Lang’s anti-Nazi film noir classic. Starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, and Roddy McDowell. Directed by Fritz Lang. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols.
Ripped from the 1920s headlines: A fictionalized take on the Leopold and Loeb case. Starring Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman, EG Marshall, and Martin Milner. Directed by Richard Fleischer. Continue reading Compulsion (1959)
Edward G. Robinson can’t kick his femme fatale habit. Also starring Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. Produced and directed by Fritz Lang. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols. Continue reading Scarlet Street (1945)
A 1950 film noir based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, and Wallace Ford. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Screenplay by Ranald MacDougal. Continue reading The Breaking Point (1950)
A neo-noir classic starring Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Melanie Griffith, and Harris Yulin. Directed by Arthur Penn. Screenplay by Alan Sharp. Cinematography by Bruce Surtees.
Tagline: The men she loved, she destroyed. Continue reading Angel Face (1952)
Adapted from the novel by William Faulkner. Starring David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr, Juano Hernandez, and Elizabeth Patterson. Produced and directed by Clarence Brown. Screenplay by Ben Maddox. Cinematography by Robert Surtees. Continue reading Intruder In The Dust (1949)
Tagline: The lowdown on the big town. Starring Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, and J Carol Naish. Directed by Russell Rouse. Screenplay by Rouse and Clarence Greene.
A prison break-in movie starring Jack Palance as identical twins. Continue reading House Of Numbers (1957)
All aboard for one of the master of suspense’s finest films. Starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, and Pat Hitchcock. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cinematography by Robert Burks. Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
A neo-noir psychological thriller starring Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, and Viveca Lindfors. Screenplay by Mann Rubin. Produced and directed by William Conrad. Continue reading Brainstorm (1965)
A flashback in psychedelic color starring Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Dennis Hopper, and Bruce Dern. Produced and directed by Roger Corman. Screenplay by Jack Nicholson.
Continue reading The Trip (1967)
An intimate epic starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn, Frank Craven, Billie Burke, Hattie McDaniel, and Ernest Anderson. Screenplay by Howard Koch. Directed by John Huston and Raoul Walsh. Continue reading In This Our Life (1942)
A courtroom drama starring George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan, and George Tobias. Directed by Vincent Sherman. Continue reading The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame, and Brad Dexter. Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Continue reading Macao (1952)
A whale of a tale starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, and Leo Genn. Directed by John Huston. Screenplay by Ray Bradbury and John Huston. Cinematography by Oswald Morris. Continue reading Moby Dick (1956)
Take a trip to Sirkland. Starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, and Jack Carson. Directed by Douglas Sirk. Based on the novel Pylon by William Faulkner. Continue reading The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Tagline: Dame-Hungry Killer-Cop Runs Berserk. Continue reading Shield For Murder (1954)
Starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, and Edgar Buchanan. Directed by George Stevens. Screenplay by Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman. Continue reading The Talk Of The Town (1942)
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, and Royal Dano. Screenplay by Jo Eisinger. Directed by Gerd Oswald.
Starring Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde, Berry Kroeger, and Hope Emerson. Directed by Robert Siodmak. Screenplay by Richard Murphy. Continue reading Cry Of The City (1948)
A film noir set amidst the rubble of post-World War II Germany. Starring Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, and Paul Lukas. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Continue reading Berlin Express (1948)
A campy horror classic starring Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, and Philip Coolidge. Produced and Directed by William Castle. Continue reading The Tingler (1959)
Boo from Adrastos. Continue reading The Sunday Dozen: Selected Scary Movies
Starring John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle, and Bobby Hyatt. Directed by John Berry. Written by Hugo Butler, Guy, Endore, and Dalton Trumbo. Cinematography by James Wong Howe. Continue reading He Ran All The Way (1951)
Robert Redford’s great film about a scandal ripped from the 1950’s headlines. Starring John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, and Mia Sorvino. Directed by Robert Redford. Screenplay by Paul Attanasio. Continue reading Quiz Show (1994)
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman go Nazi hunting in Brazil. Also starring Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, and Madame Konstantin. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Ben Hecht. Continue reading Notorious (1946)
A veteran goes Nazi hunting in this film noir starring Dick Powell and Walter Slezak. Produced by Adrian Scott. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Screenplay by John Paxton. Continue reading Cornered (1945)
John Wayne as Genghis Khan? What were they thinking? Also starring Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz, Agnes Moorehead, Thomas Gomez, John Hoyt, and William Conrad. Produced by Howard Hughes. Directed by Dick Powell. Screenplay by Oscar Millard. Continue reading The Conqueror (1956)
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, and Mike Lane. Directed by Mark Robson. Screenplay by Philip Yordan. Based on the novel by Budd Schulberg. Continue reading The Harder They Fall (1956)