13 posts tagged with noir and filmnoir.
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Movie: The Suspect
Genial shopkeeper Philip (Charles Laughton) endures constant abuse from his quarrelsome wife Cora (Rosalind Ivan) while secretly yearning for a pretty young stenographer (Ella Raines). When Cora turns up dead and it looks like Philip might be behind it, a ruthless blackmailer (Henry Daniell) and a low-key detective (Stanley Ridges) both turn their attention on the shopkeeper. [more inside]
Movie: He Ran All the Way
[TRAILER] Nick (John Garfield) and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick shoots a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs (Shelley Winters). They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police. [more inside]
Movie: The Narrow Margin
[TRAILER] Tense story of a tough cop attempting to transport the widow of a gangster to the trial in which she'll testify. They undertake a rail journey from Chicago to Los Angeles with their lives constantly under threat from hit men on the train, who will stop at nothing to prevent her from testifying. [more inside]
Movie: Night and the City
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter. [more inside]
Movie: Repeat Performance
Broadway star, Sheila Page (Joan Leslie), shoots Barney (Louis Hayward), her murderous husband on New Year's Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her producer, John Friday (Tom Conway). When she arrives, it is New Year's day, a year earlier. She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the path will be different. [more inside]
Movie: All Night Long
British director Basil Dearden followed his gay blackmail thriller Victim with 1962’s All Night Long, which re-imagines Shakespeare's Othello at a late night London jazz jam. Patrick McGoohan is drummer Johnny Cousins, the scheming, pot-smoking Iago who prowls the party stirring up jealousy and fear to tear the interracial couple of bandleader Aurelius Rex and his wife Delia apart so Delia will sing with Johnny when he leaves Othello's band. An excellent score helps drive the tightening downward spiral, with Charles Mingus and Dave Brubeck showing up as themselves throughout the party. [more inside]
Movie: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative. [more inside]
Movie: Witness for the Prosecution
In this film based on Agatha Christie's short story and play, Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) is accused of murdering an elderly rich woman, and the only alibi to him depends on his wife.
Movie: Kiss Me Deadly
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit." [more inside]
Movie: Pushover
A larcenous undercover cop falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they double-cross the hood and the cops. [more inside]
Film Noir Club: The Naked Kiss
The Film Noir Club is back with this gem from Sam Fuller: The Naked Kiss, streaming here on YouTube.
Movie: The Third Man
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy postwar Vienna only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of his old friend Harry Lime. [more inside]
Movie: Sunset Blvd.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. The screenwriter's ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence and madness. [more inside]
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