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)

Pat O’Brien plays a shamus on the skids with a chance at a big score. Also starring Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys, Percy Kilbride, and Jerome Cowan. Directed by Ted Tetzlaff. Screenplay by Martin Rackin. Continue reading Snark Noir: Riff-Raff (1947)

Feeling forgetful? So is Pat O’Brien in this 1946 film noir. The movie also stars Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins, and Wallace Ford. Directed by Irving Reis. Continue reading Crack-Up (1946)

Starring Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, and Robert Douglas. Directed by Richard Bare. Continue reading This Side Of The Law (1950)

Starring Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Wallace Ford, and Hume Cronyn. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Raville. Continue reading Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)

A gangster biopic starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Keenan Wynn, and Mickey Rooney. Directed by Joseph M. Newman. Screenplay by Jo Swerling. Continue reading King Of The Roaring 20’s: The Story Of Arnold Rothstein (1961)

Starring Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, and George Tobias. Directed by Robert Wise. Screenplay by Art Cohn. Cinematography by Milton Krasner. Continue reading The Set-Up (1949)

Starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory, and Rudy Bond. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Written by Sterling Silliphant. Based on a novel by David Goodis. Continue reading Nightfall (1956)

A comedic film noir starring Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew, and Thomas Gomez. Written and directed by Robert Rossen. Cinematography by Bernard Guffey. Continue reading Snark Noir: Johnny O’Clock (1947)

Film noir classic starring John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Coulouris, and George Tobias. Directed by Jean Negulesco. Screenplay by WR Burnett. Cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Continue reading Nobody Lives Forever (1946)

A classic gangster movie starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, and Frank McHugh. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Continue reading The Roaring Twenties (1939)

A hardboiled 1955 film noir starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Lee Van Cleef, and Earl Holliman. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Cinematography by John Alton. Continue reading The Big Combo

A 1949 film noir starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts, and Ellen Drew. Directed by Robert Florey. Cinematography by John Alton. Continue reading The Crooked Way

A 1952 film noir starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, and Bruce Bennett. Directed by David Miller. Continue reading Sudden Fear

A 1947 film noir starring Robert Taylor as an amnesiac, Audrey Totter as his psychiatrist, and Herbert Marshall as a dapper villain. Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Continue reading High Wall

A 1951 film noir comedy starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, and Raymond Burr. Directed by John Farrow and Richard Fleischer. Continue reading His Kind Of Woman

Starring Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, and Hoagy Carmichael. Directed by Robert Stevenson. Continue reading The Las Vegas Story

Starring Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey, and Jean Porter. Directed by Robert Parrish. Screenplay by William Bowers. Continue reading Cry Danger