Tagged: Film Noir
A piano player, Al (Neal), sets off hitchhiking his way to California to be with his girl. Along the way, a stranger in a convertible gives him a ride. While driving, Al stops to put the top up during a rainstorm. He discovers that the owner of the car has died in his sleep. Al [...]
Too Late for Tears is a 1949 black-and-white film noir starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea. Alan Palmer accidentally gets a hold of $60,000 in stolen cash. Lizabeth Scott is one of the great movie femme fatales and plays his plotting wife Jane. She insists that they keep the money instead of going to [...]
Here’s an interesting little film noir. The film begins with a wild setup–a car with a dead body in it rolls to a stop right in front of the police station! Inside the car is a shady detective–but who killed him and why? This movie doesn’t ever telegraph who did it and keeps you guessing right to the end.
Vicki Lynn (Jean Peters) is a waitress who is transformed into a fashion model by press agent Steve Christopher (Elliott Reid). When Vicki is murdered, detective Ed Cornell (Richard Boone) tries to blame the crime on Christopher.
Here’s a strange little film about a “Strange Woman” played by Hedy Lamar and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. In the style of film noir, this film tells the story of Jenny Hager, a beautiful woman who can get men to do anything she wants.
Strange Illusion is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. According to noir historian Spencer Selby the film is, “A stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies.” An adolescent believes that his widowed mother’s suitor may have murdered his father. The film is obviously inspired by William Shakespeare’s play [...]
IMDB: An expose of the bribery of parole board officials by the underworld to obtain the illegal release of hardened gangsters from prison. The government sends FBI agent Richard Hendricks, at the request of the state governor, to investigate. Posing as a big-time racketeer, Hendricks works his way into a gang; finds their way of [...]
Scarlet Street (1945). Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild banker and amateur painter is at a dinner honouring him for for twenty-five years of service in the bank for which he works. Enroute home he helps Kitty (Joan Bennett), an amoral femme fatale apparently being attacked by a man. Soon, he is enamoured of [...]
A poor woman (Ann Harding) wins the lottery and soon she’s swept off her feet by a nice man (Basil Rathbone) but after they’re married she begins to think he has a few secrets including murder.
The story is about two U.S. Treasury agents who go undercover in an attempt to break a counterfeiting ring. The agents try to join the gang by posing as counterfeiters from out of town. They eventually join the gang but the stakes are set even higher when one of the agents is killed by [...]
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