Out of the Past (1947)
Synopsis: An ex-private detective (Robert Mitchum, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison) with a shady past is now enjoying a quiet life in a small town, but old associates reappear and the […]
Tag Archives: Film-Noir
Downbeat crime films made between 1941 and 1959
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Synopsis: Private eye Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell, The Bad and the Beautiful) is hired by an ex-con, Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki, Some Like it Hot), to find the man’s old […]
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Synopsis: Julia Ross (Nina Foch, An American in Paris) in an American woman living in London, England, who answers a lady’s (Dame May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver) newspaper ad for a personal secretary. […]
A Woman’s Face (1941)
Synopsis: A terribly disfigured criminal, Anna Holm (Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce), becomes involved in a plan to kill a young heir, but Anna has a change-of-heart after a surgeon (Melvyn Douglas, […]
The Bette Davis Project: Beyond the Forest (1949)
Synopsis: Bette Davis is Rosa Moline, a local physician’s wife who hates the monotony of her ordinary existence in a small Midwestern town. Rosa dreams of a gregarious life in […]
Rancho Notorious (1952)
Synopsis: After his fiancee is brutally raped and murdered by a bandit, cowhand Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy, Peyton Place) sets out to find the man responsible for the death of […]
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Synopsis: A traveling carnival employee, Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power, The Mark of Zorro), schemes his way into a mind-reading act created by the carnival’s mentalist, Zeena (Joan Blondell, Three on a […]
The Bette Davis Project: Deception (1946)
Synopsis: A concert pianist, Christine Radcliffe (Bette Davis), finds out that her presumably dead boyfriend, cellist Karel Novak (Paul Henreid, Now, Voyager) is alive. Christine wants to pick up where […]
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Synopsis: Spencer Tracy (Inherit The Wind) plays John J. Macreedy, a one-armed World War II veteran who arrives at the small town of Black Rock. The town is controlled by […]
Roger Corman Presents: Highway Dragnet (1954)
Synopsis: After being wrongly accused of murdering a barfly, Terri Smith (Mary Beth Hughes, The Ox-Bow Incident), an ex-Marine, James Henry (Richard Conte, House of Strangers), flees from the police. […]
The Bette Davis Project: The Letter (1940)
Synopsis: In Singapore, the wife of a rubber plantation manager (Herbert Marshall, The Little Foxes), Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), shoots a man to death after he supposedly tried to rape […]
Garden of Evil (1954)
Synopsis: In a Mexican village, a woman (Susan Hayward, I Want to Live!) hires a group of men (Gary Cooper, High Noon, Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death, Cameron Mitchell, House […]
Pushover (1954)
Synopsis: A burnt-out cop (Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity) is assigned to tail a mysterious gunmoll (Kim Novak, Vertigo) but the police officer makes the mistake of falling in love with […]
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Synopsis: Phony mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, Little Caesar) develops true premonition during one of his acts. Haunted by visions of death and doom, Triton realizes that he’s unable […]
The Crooked Way (1949)
Synopsis: A WWII veteran (John Payne, Kansas City Confidential) suffering from amnesia goes back to his hometown to see if a familiar setting will trigger any recollections. He then learns […]
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
Synopsis: A notorious ex-con, Roy “Mad Dog” Earl (Jack Palance, Shane and City Slickers), wants to do one last job before retiring for good. Earl comes up with a plan to rob […]
The Secret Heart (1946)
Synopsis: June Allyson (Good News) plays Penny Adams, a disturbed young woman whose obsession with his dead father is driving family members crazy. On the advice of Penny’s psychiatrist (Lionel Barrymore, […]
