Category: Film-Noir
Posted on October 1, 2014 |
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Murder, My Sweet / Farewell, My Lovely (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Posted on September 12, 2014 |
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City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.
Starring: Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold, Chill Wills, Marie Windsor, Paula Raymond
Director: John H. Auer
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Tags: Chill Wills, Edward Arnold, Gig Young, John H. Auer, Mala Powers, Marie Windsor, Paula Raymond, William Talman
Posted on August 29, 2014 |
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Plunder Road (1957)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
On a dark rainy night, five men stage a well-planned U.S. Mint train robbery and walk away with ten million in gold bullion. To throw the cops off the track, the gang split up the massive haul into three concealed truckloads and go off to three different directions hoping for a perfect getaway.
Starring: Gene Raymond, Elisha Cook Jr., Wayne Morris, Stafford Repp, Steven Ritch, Jeanne Cooper
Director: Hubert Cornfield
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Tags: Elisha Cook Jr., Gene Raymond, Hubert Cornfield, Jeanne Cooper, Stafford Repp, Steven Ritch, Wayne Morris
Posted on August 28, 2014 |
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Out of the Past / Build My Gallows High (1947)
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Starring: Rhonda Fleming, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Dickie Moore, Richard Webb
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Tags: Dickie Moore, Jacques Tourneur, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, Robert Mitchum
Posted on August 23, 2014 |
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The Harder They Fall (1956)
Drama | Film-Noir | Sport | Thriller
Down-on-his-luck ex-sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by shady fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable phenom from Argentina.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Edward Andrews
Director: Mark Robson
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Tags: Edward Andrews, Humphrey Bogart, Jan Sterling, Mark Robson, Max Baer, Mike Lane, Rod Steiger
Posted on June 28, 2014 |
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The legendary James Cagney (White Heat) in his final great gangster role. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, a lowlife maniac who doesn’t care about anything except his next “kill.” After violently busting out from prison and murdering his partner, the cold-blooded mobster satisfies a pent-up lust for violence in an unstoppable and vicious crime-spree. Dirty cops, Inspector Charles Webber (Ward Bond) and Lieutenant John Reese (Barton MacLane) try to strong-arm the fascinating creep, but he turns the table on them and blackmails them with the help of a crooked lawyer, Keith 'Cherokee' Mandon (Luther Adler).
Starring: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Barton MacLane
Director: Gordon Douglas
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Tags: Barbara Payton, Barton MacLane, Gordon Douglas, Helena Carter, James Cagney, Luther Adler, Ward Bond
Posted on June 22, 2014 |
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Ace in the Hole / The Human Interest Story (1951)
Drama | Film-Noir
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Ray Teal, Frank Cady
Director: Billy Wilder
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Tags: Billy Wilder, Frank Cady, Jan Sterling, Kirk Douglas, Porter Hall, Ray Teal, Robert Arthur
Posted on March 19, 2014 |
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Panic in the Streets (1950)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Douglas, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
Director: Elia Kazan
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Tags: Barbara Bel Geddes, Dan Riss, Elia Kazan, Jack Palance, Paul Douglas, Richard Widmark, Zero Mostel
Posted on February 27, 2014 |
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Gilda (1946)
Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller
Casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) orders his right-hand man, Johnny Farrell (Ford), to keep an eye on his beautiful new wife, Gilda (Hayworth). Ballin is unaware, however, that Johnny and Gilda are former lovers who are now full of contempt for one another. When Ballin seemingly dies in a plane crash, Johnny marries Gilda to keep her under his guard, but his scheme doesn't quite go according to plan…
Starring: Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer
Director: Charles Vidor
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Posted on February 24, 2014 |
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Little Caesar (1931)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Soon he becomes the leader of the gangsters, known as Little Caesar.
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas E. Jackson, George E. Stone
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Edward G. Robinson, George E. Stone, Glenda Farrell, Mervyn LeRoy, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas E. Jackson
Posted on February 2, 2014 |
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Boomerang! (1947)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene, Taylor Holmes
Director: Elia Kazan
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Tags: Arthur Kennedy, Dana Andrews, Elia Kazan, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Sam Levene, Taylor Holmes
Posted on January 3, 2014 |
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Laura (1944)
Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
A detective investigating a murder falls in love with the dead woman's portrait.
Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams
Director: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
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Tags: Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Dorothy Adams, Gene Tierney, Judith Anderson, Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Vincent Price
Posted on December 14, 2013 |
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
In this atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich, the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Ralph Meeker stars as snarling private dick Mike Hammer, whose decision one dark, lonely night to pick up a hitchhiking woman sends him down some terrifying byways. Brazen and bleak, Kiss Me Deadly is a film noir masterpiece as well as an essential piece of cold war paranoia, and it features as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema.
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Paul Stewart, Albert Dekker, Wesley Addy, Marjorie Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Tags: Albert Dekker, Fortunio Bonanova, Marjorie Bennett, Paul Stewart, Ralph Meeker, Robert Aldrich, Wesley Addy
Posted on September 27, 2013 |
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The Enforcer (1951)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Michael Tolan, King Donovan
Director: Bretaigne Windust
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Tags: Bretaigne Windust, Everett Sloane, Humphrey Bogart, King Donovan, Michael Tolan, Ted de Corsia, Zero Mostel
Posted on August 8, 2013 |
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Niagara (1953)
Film-Noir | Thriller
Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten are an ill-suited couple staying in the cottage next to happy newlyweds Casey Adams and Jean Peters near Niagara Falls. While sightseeing, the newlyweds see Monroe kissing her young lover (Richard Allen) and hear them plot to kill her husband, making it look like suicide. When the latter goes missing, Monroe is asked to identify a body and discovers it's her lover. Her husband's vengeance threatens them all.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea, Jean Peters, Don Wilson
Narrator: Joseph Cotten
Director: Henry Hathaway
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Tags: Denis O'Dea, Don Wilson, Henry Hathaway, Jean Peters, Joseph Cotten, Marilyn Monroe, Max Showalter
Posted on July 30, 2013 |
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Crashout (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
Starring: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson, Beverly Michaels
Director: Lewis R. Foster
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Tags: Arthur Kennedy, Beverly Michaels, Gene Evans, Lewis R. Foster, Luther Adler, Marshall Thompson, William Bendix, William Talman
Posted on July 26, 2013 |
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers
Director: Billy Wilder
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Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray, Jean Heather, Porter Hall, Tom Powers
Posted on July 18, 2013 |
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Champion (1949)
Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Sport
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public…and a heel in private.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Luis Van Rooten
Director: Mark Robson
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Tags: Arthur Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Luis Van Rooten, Marilyn Maxwell, Mark Robson, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Posted on July 4, 2013 |
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M (1931)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who Is the Murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert, closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Director: Fritz Lang
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Tags: Ellen Widmann, Fritz Lang, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos
Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Brute Force (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin's forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey (a riveting Hume Cronyn). Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, Brute Force builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Sam Levene
Director: Jules Dassin
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Tags: Ann Blyth, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Hume Cronyn, Jules Dassin, Sam Levene, Yvonne De Carlo
