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 Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, and Katherine Warren. Directed by Joseph Losey. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. Continue reading The Prowler (1951)
Starring Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, and Robert Douglas. Directed by Richard Bare. Continue reading This Side Of The Law (1950)
Starring Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, and Leon Ames. Directed by Robert Montgomery. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. Continue reading Lady In The Lake (1947)
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)
Starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. Continue reading The Steel Trap (1952)
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 stylish film noir starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, and Elsa Lanchester. Directed by John Farrow. Screenplay by Jonathan Latimer. Cinematography by John F. Seitz. Continue reading The Big Clock (1948)
A 1958 film noir set in San Francisco. Starring Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, and Richard Jaeckel. Directed by Don Siegel. Screenplay by Sterling Silliphant. Cinematography by Hal Mohr. Continue reading The Lineup (1958)
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 backstage film noir starring Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet, Leon Ames, and Frank McHugh. Directed by John Gage. Screenplay by Leo Rosten. Continue reading The Velvet Touch (1948)
A gangster biopic starring Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, Martin Balsam, and James Gregory. Directed by Richard Wilson. Continue reading Al Capone (1959)
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 1953 movie starring Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, and Paul Kelly. Directed by Dick Powell. Continue reading Nuke Noir: Split Second
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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
Starring Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, and Janis Carter. Directed by Robert Stevenson. Continue reading The Woman On Pier 13 AKA I Married A Communist
Starring Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O’Brien, and Woody Strode. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. Continue reading The Last Voyage
Starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Hume Cronyn, Heather Angel, and Canada Lee. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Continue reading Lifeboat
Starring James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J Cobb, and Helen Walker. Directed by Henry Hathaway.
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