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 […]
Tag Archives: Film Noir
Downbeat crime films made between 1941 and 1959
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 […]
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Synopsis: Phony mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, Little Caesar) develops true precognition during one of his acts. Triton soon finds out that foreseeing the future is not much fun […]
The Crooked Way (1949)
Synopsis: John Payne (Miracle on 34th Street and Kansas City Confidential) plays Eddie Rice, a World War II veteran who suffers from amnesia. He doesn’t remember anything prior to his military […]
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
Synopsis: 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 a Casino […]
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, […]
