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. […]
Tag Archives: Film Noir
Downbeat crime films made between 1941 and 1959
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, […]
A Woman’s Face (1938, aka En kvinnas ansikte)
Synopsis: Anna Holm (Ingrid Bergman, For Whom the Bell Tolls) is a vicious, disfigured kingpin who concocts a devious plan to make money that involves killing the heir to a […]
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: After a particularly nasty bank heist, the thief manages to evade authorities. The cops have a pretty good idea who perpetrated the robbery, but they have a hard time […]
