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Of all the glorious film genres out there it's the american Film Noir from the 1940's and the early 1950's that i love the most. When a melting pot of talents from all over the world, directors, script writers, cinematographers and actors, forced together by the WW2, created the greatest films ever made. When the art of lighting a scene was at it's highest point, when the actors looked their best due to clothing- and hair styles, when the soundtracks were most atmospheric and when great authors of the 20th century as Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner and Graham Greene helped writing the scripts to the dark tales. Crime fiction from this point in time became the foundation, created the archetypes for most of the modern crime, thriller and action films. The Notion Film Noir could emanate from early 1950's French film critics and US pulp fiction was then released in France in the Black Series, Série Noire, the crime stories that the films were based on (compare with Italy and the Gialli genre that was based on crime stories released in the Yellow/Giallo series there) - Read more about Pulp Fiction on my PF page |
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Film Noir - The High Point of Film History | |||
Desperation and Angst
Among the directors geniuses as Otto Preminger, Billy
Wilder, Jaques Torneur, Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. |
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My Top 10 Film Noir Favourites - Follow the link and check them out, OK or have i missed some of your favs ? | |||
Link suggestion: Check up on Steve O's film blog Film Noir of the Week for cool tips about forgotten gems | |||
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Great restored and a thought to be lost Melodrama |
Repeat Performance Direction: Alfred L. Werker Cast: Joan Leslie, Louis Hayward, Richard Baseheart |
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The Black Angel (based on a Cornell Woolrich novel) Direction and co-production: Roy William Neill 1946 Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre |
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A Swedish film noir ? A melodrama with crime, so i |
Två Kvinnor Direction: Arnold Sjöstrand, producion: Sweden 1947 Cast: Cécile Ossbahr, Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand |
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Late Film Noir crime action with Victor Mature |
Interpol (Pickup Alley) Direction: John Gilling, production: UK-USA 1957 Cast: Trevor Howard, Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg |
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Great B melodrama noir and low-budgeted made |
Moonrise Direction: Frank Borzage, production: 1948 Cast: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Lloyd Bridges |
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Two fine noir thrillers with the great Joseph Cotten. |
A Blueprint for Murder / The Steel Trap Direction and script: Andrew L. Stone, production: 1953/1952 Cast: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters/Joseph Cotten, Teresa
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Forgotten Noir Classic! Robert Young
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They Won't Believe Me Direction: Irving Pichel, production: 1947 Cast: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson |
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Phantom Lady (Cornell Woolrich/William Irish) Direction: Robert Siodmak, production: 1944 Cast: Ella Raines, Franchot Tone, Elisha Cook Jr. |
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Phantom Lady - Recommended reading Swedish titles: En dam är förlorad &
Det försvunna vittnet |
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Maybe not a Noir really but more of an enjoyable |
Riff-Raff Direction: Ted Tetzlaff, production: 1947 Cast: Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys |
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Fantastic noir-thriller after crime master Woolrich. |
The Window (based on a Cornell Woolrich short story) Direction: Ted Tetzlaff, production: RKO Radio Pictures 1947-1949 Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Barbara Hale |
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Laura - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction & production: Otto Preminger, 1944 Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb |
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Bury Me Dead/The Chase (based on the Woolrich novel) Direction: Arthur Ripley/Bernhard Vorhaus, production: 1946/47 Cast: Robert Cummings,Michele Morgan/Cathy O'Donnell,
June Lockhart |
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Obscure but very cool and entertaining Good-Bad |
This Side Of The Law Direction: Richard Bare, production: First National Picture 1949 Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige |
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Francois Truffaut made a film based on |
The Bride Wore Black - A Pulp Fiction Masterpiece Cornell Woolrich ( 1903-1968) one of
the geniuses of The Pulp Fiction |
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Great Crime Drama with a fascinating Jessica |
A Woman's Vengeance Direction and production: Zoltan Korda, 1948 Cast: Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth |
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A brilliant and suspenseful Manhunt crime Noir |
He Walked By Night Direction: Alfred Werker, production: 1948 Cast: Richard Baseheart, Scott Brady, Jack Webb |
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A fine noir crime-thriller with the always great Robert |
Act of Violence Direction: Fred Zinneman, production: 1948 Cast: Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Janet Leigh |
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Waltz into Darkness / La Sirène du Mississippi The Master's ambitious 1947 Magnum
Opus is a powerful |
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Yet another Good and very unusual B Art Movie
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Fear in the Night (based on a Cornell Woolrich story) Direction: Maxwell Shane, production: 1947 Cast: Deforest Kelley, Paul Kelly, Ann Doran |
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The first filmatization of Fredric Brown's 1949 |
Screaming Mimi Direction: Gerd Oswald, production: 1958 Cast: Anita Ekberg, Phil Carey, Harry Townes, Devil The
Dog |
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Pretty good crime-thriller where a rich middle-aged |
Sudden Fear Direction: David Miller, prod: 1952 Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame |
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Leave Her To Heaven - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction: John M. Stahl, production: 1945 Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain |
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Experiment Perilous (Noche en el Alma) Direction: Jaques Tourneur, production: 1944 Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas |
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One of the 2-3 best films ever made, but maybe not a |
Sunset Boulevard - Masterpiece Direction and co-script: Bill Wilder, production: 1950 Cast: Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, William Holden |
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A Really cool Noir thriller with fabulous genre duo |
Too Late For Tears (Killer Bait) Direction: Byron Haskin, production: 1949 Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy |
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Is this the First Film Noir Movie ? |
Double Indemnity - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction: Billy Wilder, production: 1944 Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson |
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B-grade film noir based on William P. McGivern's |
Shield for Murder - based on a novel by William P. McGivern Direction: Howard W. Koch & Edmond O'Brien, prod: 1954 Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Carolyn Jones, John Agar |
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Great crime-drama. Stringent, stylish, hard-boiled |
Classe tous risques (The Big Risk) Direction, co-script: Claude Sautet, production: France-Italy 1960 Cast: Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo |
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Ultimate
jailbreak crime-drama with an explosive climax |
Brute Force Direction: Jules Dassin, production: 1947 Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Ella Raines
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A Cult Classic and an absolute Masterpiece about |
Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female) - A Film Noir masterpiece Direction: Joseph H. Lewis, production: 1949 Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Barry Kroeger |
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Great and really though film noir crime action with great
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99 River Street Direction: Phil Karlson, production: 1953 Cast: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter |
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Great melodrama noir thriller with gorgeous photo |
The Spiritualist (The Amazing Mr. X) Direction: Bernard Vorhaus, production: 1948 Cast: Lynn Bari, Turhan Bey, Cathy o'Donnell |
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A very fine but unseen crime-drama about 2 childhood |
Cry of the City Direction: Robert Siodmak, production: 1948 Cast: Richard Conte, Victor Mature, Hope Emerson |
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Detour (Farlig omväg) - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction: Edgar G. Ulmer, production: 1945 Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake |
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A Forgotten and obscure british screen adaption of |
Bedelia Direction: Lance Comfort, production: UK 1946 Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes |
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Hangover Square Direction: John Brahm, production: 1945 Cast: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders |
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The Follow-Up to Laura from the genious son-of-a- |
Fallen Angel Direction: Otto Preminger, production: 1945 Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Alice Faye |
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Out of the Past - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction: Jaques Tourneur, production: 1947 Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas |
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Unjustly forgotten figure-skating Film Noir crime drama |
Suspense Direction: Frank Tuttle, production: 1946 Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Albert Dekker |
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The Follow-up to Suspense and a fine Feel Bad crime |
The Gangster Direction: Gordon Wiles, production: 1947 Cast: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Akim Tamiroff |
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The best crime thriller in film history - the DVD cover |
Rififi (Du Rififi chez les hommes) Direction, co-script: Jules Dassin, production: France 1955 Cast: Jean Servais, Robert Manuel, Jules Dassin |
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A brilliant, different and heartbreaking noir drama |
Angel Face - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction and production: Otto Preminger 1952 Cast: Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Leon Ames |
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The Locket Direction: John Brahm, production: RKO Radio Pictures 1946 Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne |
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A nice melodrama noir thriller with former swimsuit |
The Unguarded Moment Direction: Harry Keller, production: 1956 Cast: Esther Williams, John Saxon, Edward Andrews |
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Another forgotten and obscure Film Noir, but this |
Woman on the Run Direction: Norman Foster, production: 1950 Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith |
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Touch of Evil (En djävulsk fälla) - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction: Orson Welles, production: 1958 Cast: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh |
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What is The Red House? Don't
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The Red House Direction & script: Delmer Daves, production: 1947 Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Allene Roberts, Julie London |
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A late and very nice B grade film noir where ex-Tarzan |
The Price of Fear Direction: Abner Biberman, production: 1956 Cast: Lex Barker, Merle Oberon, Charles Drake |
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A Brilliant and controversial Noir drama with race |
No Way Out Direction: Joseph L. Mankiewics, production: 1950 Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier |
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A Masterful Film Noir with a phenomenal |
Scarlet Street - A Film Noir Masterpiece Direction: Fritz Lang, production: 1945 Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennet, Dan Duryea |
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Aggression and racial tensions explodes in a |
Odds
Against Tomorrow - based on a novel by William Direction: Robert Wise, production: 1959 |
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YES, another Cornell Woolrich flick
and now a |
I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes (Cornell Woolrich/Irish) Direction: William Nigh, production: 1948 Cast: Elyse Knox, Don Castle, Regis Tomey |
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A dark and very good Noir drama with Power as an |
Nightmare Alley Direction: Edmund Goulding, production: 1947 Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray |
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Big Heat - based on a novel by William |
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Fine early B Film Noir from one of the masters of |
Railroaded Direction: Anthony Mann, production: 1947 Cast: John Ireland, Jane Randolph |
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The Great Erich von Stroheim falls for a lush young |
The Great Flamarion Direction: Anthony Mann, production: 1945 Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea |
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The Black Book (Reign of Terror/Der Schwarze Buch) Direction: Anthony Mann, production: 1949 Cast: Robert Cummings, Arnold Mons, Richard Baseheart |
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Fantastic Fonda in a gripping Noir melodrama |
The Long Night (Daybreak) Direction: Anatole Litvak, production: 1947 Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price |
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An enjoyable and snappy Noir with a fine Robert |
Rogue Cop - based on a novel by William P. McGivern Direction: Roy Rowland, production: 1954 Cast: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, Ann Francis |
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The Killer is Loose Direction: Budd Boetticher, production: 1956 Cast: Joseph Cotten, Rhona Fleming, Wendell Corey |
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Maybe not a regular Noir film but more of a Hitch- |
Obsession
(der Wahnsinn des Dr. Clive/Den besatte Direction: Edward Dmytryk, production: 1949 |
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Greed and desperation in a noir-melodrama from |
The Prowler Direction: Joseph Losey, script: Dalton Trumbo, production: 1951 Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell |
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A Brilliant but today sadly forgotten crime melodrama |
A Double
Life Cast: Ronald Colman, Shelley Winters, Signe Hasso |
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Brilliant, depressing and claustrophobically |
Force of Evil Direction & co-script: Abraham Polonsky, production: 1949 Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor |
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Quicksand Direction: Irving Pichel, production: 1950 Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Peter Lorre |
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Dark City Direction: William Dieterle, production: 1951 Cast: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Jack Webb, Viveca
Lindfors |
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Private Hell 36 Direction: Don Siegel, production: 1954 Cast: Steve Cochran, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff |
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Superior Crime Action with great actors and skillful |
The Killers Direction: Donald "Don" Siegel, production: 1964 Cast: Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson, Ronald
Reagan |
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A Film Noir Classic with criminals vs. criminals |
The Killers Direction: Robert Siodmak, production: 1946 Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien |
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Crime Noir Love Drama and the Debut film of |
They Live by Night / Side Street Direction: Nicholas Ray prod. 1948 / Anthony Mann prod. 1949 Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell |
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Impact Direction: Arthur Lubin, production: 1949 Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Helen Walker |
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Crime thriller and a very Noir Love Story or |
Footsteps in the Fog Direction: Arthur Lubin, production: 1950 Cast: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Belinda Lee |
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A Who Dun It murder mystery that according to |
I Wake Up Screaming - The first Film Noir? Direction: Bruce Humberstone, production: 1941 Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird
Cregar |
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Direction: Gordon Douglas, production: 1950 Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter |
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Somewhere in the Night Direction & co-script: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, production: 1946 Cast: John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Richard Conte |
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Kino
Video Film Noir - i.a. Hangmen Also Die,
Behind Locked Direction: Fritz Lang, Oscar Boetticher, production: 1943-1952 |
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A very fine Film Noir crime drama and a |
Pitfall Direction: André De Tooth, production: 1948 Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Raymond Burr |
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Classic B noir with a wild pace about a
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D.O.A. Direction: Rudolph Maté, production: 1950 Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Neville Brand |
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A delicious and vibrantly stylish Neo Noir crime |
The Last Seduction (En kvinnas list) Direction: John Dahl, production: 1994 Cast: Linda Fiorentino, Bill Pullman, Peter Berg |
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Tension/Where Danger Lives Direction: John Berry/Jon Farrow, production: 1949/1950 Cast: Audrey Totter, Richard Baseheart/Robert Mitchum |
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The Strange Woman (Den onda ängeln)/ Dishonored Lady Direction: Edgar G. Ulmer/Robert Stevenson, production: 1946/1947 Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders/Hedy Lamarr, Dennis
O'Keefe |
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Direction: Lewis Milestone, production: 1946 Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott |
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Obscure but very entertaining. British Heist |
Payroll Direction: Sidney Hayers, production: UK 1961 Cast: Michael Craig, Francois Prevost, Kenneth Griffith |
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A trashy but very snazzy and entertaining British |
No
Orchids for miss Blandish (Black Dice/The
Snatch) Direction: St. John Legh Clowes, production: UK 1948 |
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OK, no genre masterpieces in this collection but |
Film
Noir Vol. 5: Cornered/Desperate/Dial 1119/The Phenix City
Story/ Direction: Bl a Edward Dmytryk, Gerald Meyer, Anthony
Mann |
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Deadline At Dawn - based on a Woolrich/Irish novel Direction: Harold Clurman, script: Clifford Odets, production: 1946 Cast: Bill Williams, Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas |
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4 film collection with the great Night Editor as the |
Bad Girls of Film Noir Volume 2:
Night Editor/One Girl's Confession Direction: Henry Levin, Hugo Haas, Lewis Seiler, prod:
1946-1956 |
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American produced British Film Noir by british |
Hammer Film Noir 3 disc Double feature Direction: Terence Fisher x 3, Ken Hughes m.fl, |
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Yield To The Night Direction: J. Lee Thompson, production: UK 1956 Cast: Diana Dors, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell |
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The Big Sleep 1946 direction : Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall |
A famously Complicated
plot in this classic crime noir based on the Raymond Chandler novel and with very good chemistry between Bogart and Bacall |
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The Big Steal 1949 |
Crime comedy in the
reunion of Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer after Out of the Past, with the hunt down in Mexico after a bag full of money. Entertaining! Illegal though is a quite boring story about a mob-connected lawyer, and with beautiful Jayne Mansfield in her debut film as a bar pianist |
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Black Widow 1954 direction : Nunnally Johnson Van Heflin, Ginger Rodgers |
More a who-dunit
murder mystery than Noir. Great colors in Cinemascope and |
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Blonde Ice 1948 direction : Jack Bernhard Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige |
Leslie Brooks is a
psychopathic femme fatale in this very obscure B film noir that was presumed Lost. Pretty entertaining in a DVD edition that could've been better quality wise, but a lot of fine extras in this US VCI edition. Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Blue Dahlia, The 1946 direction : George Marshall Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake |
Ladd is a soldier
returned from WW2 who's suspected of the murder of his unfaithful wife. Based on the famous Raymond Chandler novel and supposedly inspired naming the victim in a murder case The Black Dahlia ? Something the crime writer James Ellroy has written about |
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Blue Gardenia, The direction: Fritz Lang Anne Baxter, Richard Conte |
Fritz Lang Crime drama
criticizing the Yellow press. Late film noir and based on a story by Vera Caspary, where a woman is accused of a murder she can't remember having committed. Nat King Cole sings the title song. Read more on the picture link |
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Boomerang 1947 direction : Elia Kazan Dana Andrews, Lee J. Kobb |
Courtroom drama and
documentary noir about political corruption and where a prosecutor doubts the guilt of the accused. Well made by the famous Kazan BUT .... Boring. Stiff and tiresome for a Film Noir, this was not Kazan's thing. Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Border Incident 1949 direction : Anthony Mann Ricardo Montalban |
Thriller about crimes
committed against mexican guest-workers. Violent for it's time with Ricardo Montalban as an undeercover agent. Fine, but maybe not a Film Noir really. Exquisite cinematography from the great John Alton |
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Born To Be Bad 1950 direction : Nicholas Ray Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan |
Film Noir drama where
a rotten to the bone Joan Fontaine is determined to ruin the marriage of her cousin Joan Leslie and instead plan to catch the stinking rich fiance herself. Fontaine is great as a disgusting Snake. Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Born To Kill 1947 direction : Robert Wise Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor |
Fortune seeker Claire
Trevor is turned on sexually by psychopath Tierney's evil and dangerousness in a Feel Bad Noir. Pitch-black from director Wise about the taboo subject, female violence groupies Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Clash By Night 1952 direction : Fritz Lang Robert Ryan, Barbara Stanwyck |
Zzzzzzz ... snore
... a not that good Fritz Lang movie. Too Theatrical and overstrung after a play by the always pretentious bore Clifford Odets. But, Robert Ryan is brilliant as always, what an actor he was |
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Criss Cross 1948 direction : Robert Siodmak Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea |
Lancaster is an ex-prisoner
that tries to live a regular guy life when Dan "The Human Weasel" Duryea makes him take part in a Heist robbery. A pretty good sequel to the classic, the 1946 The Killers |
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Crossfire 1947 direction : Edward Dmytryk Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame |
Heavy-handed and boring
about anti-semitism with an uninterested Mitchum Zzzzz .... BUT with an explosive scene where Gloria Grahame and Paul Kelly ignites the screen in a sidestory. They are fantastic and naturally this film should have been about them instead. Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Dangerous Crossing 1953 direction : Joseph M. Newman w. Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie |
OK thriller more than
a Film Noir with beautyful Jeanne Crain in danger onboard of an Atlantic Cruise ship and about a disappearing person Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Dark Corner 1946 direction : Henry Hathaway Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb |
Another boring Film
Noir from Hathaway (i didn't like his overrated Kiss of Death from 1947 that much) where Lucille Ball is a secretary to a threatened private detective and Clifton Webb does his "After Laura" forever typecasted middle-aged Dandy role |
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Dark Passage 1947 direction : Delmer Daves Humphrey Bogart,Lauren Bacall |
Initially filmed very
oddly with a subjective camera as the eyes of Bogie. Clearly inspired by the previous years Lady in the Lake and ripped off by film collossus Ed Wood, Jr.'s Z grade crime drama Jailbait |
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Dillinger 1945 direction : Max Nosseck Lawrence Tierney |
Tierney is great as
Public Enemy No.1 in a crime action and maybe this film is not really a Film Noir. Young Tierney looks a bit like the swedish Table Tennis champion J.O.Waldner |
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Framed 1947 direction: Richard Wallace Glenn Ford, Janice Carter |
An
alcoholic drifter is picked up by a lush blonde to play the part of a corpse in an elaborate bank-heist planned by her and her boyfriend. Will Glenn Ford survive this scheme? Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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His Kind of Woman 1951 direction : John Farrow Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Raymond Burr |
Film Noir combined
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House of Bamboo 1955 direction : Samuel Fuller Robert Ryan, Dennis O'Keefe |
Not sure if this is
a Film Noir or not, but it's about american gangsters in post-war Tokyo, and with a really cool shoot-out at an amusement park at the end of the film. Looks very good in color and Cinemascope. Read more on the picture link |
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Kiss Me Deadly direction: Robert Aldrich Ralph Meeker, Jack Elam |
Classic late Film
Noir and visually groundbreaking from Aldrich. based on a Mickey Spillane novel about a PI's hunt for a "burning" secret Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Kiss of Death 1947 director: Henry Hathaway Victor Mature, Richard Widmark |
Crime drama where
Richard Widmark does his famous performance as Tommy Udo, the psychopathic giggling killer Read more on the picture link |
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Lady in the Lake 1946 direction : Robert Montgomery Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter |
Very unusual Noir,
almost experimental with a subjective camera and with some delightfully offbeat acting. Based on a Raymond Chandler novel and with the always HOT Audrey Totter. Never, that a woman like that would fall wooden loser as Montgomery, OK, maybe if he was stinking rich |
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Madigan 1968 direction: Don Siegel Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda |
An OK only Police
buddy crime drama that Siegel remade a couple of years later as Dirty Harry. A NY cop duo (Richard Widmark and Harry Guardino) chases a brutal and desperate killer. Not sure if this a film noir, but the ending was dark and gritty and depressing |
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Man in the Vault 1956 direction : Andrew McLaglen William Campbell, Anita Ekberg |
A B-ish crime movie
produced by John Wayne and with bad direction and a bad script. Maybe not a Film Noir but still an entertaining film when an honest locksmith gets involved with gangsters. Anita Ekberg looks sensational |
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Missing Women 1951 direction: Philip Ford Penny Edwards, James Millican |
A Snappy Powerty Row
studio low budget B Noir that clocks in at only 60 minutes. With adequate acting and with James Millican as a rough bad guy mishandling the missing Penny Edwards. A sort of Female Revenge story Read more on the picture link |
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Narrow Margin, The 1952 direction : Richard Fleischer Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor |
A very fine crime
thriller on a Train movie in a mix of Hitchcock and Film Noir, when a cop has to escort a witness against-the-mob by train over the continent. Marie Windsor as a gangster bitch is fine as always Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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New York Confidential 1955 direction: Russell Rouse Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte |
Great actors in a
great mafia crime Noir that could be the blueprint to all modern mob movies, including Johnnie To's HK Triad one's. Richard Conte is an ice-kold stone killer. Commentary audio track with Alan K. Rode och Kim Morgan. Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Nora Prentiss director: Vincent Sherman Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith |
Fine crime-drama with
ditto actors Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith. A beautiful nightclub singer hits the respected doctor like a bomb, The Sucker's Blues, and soon his life is in shambles. Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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On Dangerous Ground 1952 direction : Nicholas Ray Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino |
Noir-melodrama where
a burnt-out cop played by Robert Ryan is transfered to a countryside village where he meets Ida Lupino and has to hunt down a young killer |
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Portrait in Black 1960 direction: Michael Gordon Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn Madame X 1966 Lana Turner |
Two Times Lana in
a crime noir melodrama with murder and passion and it was an entertaining watch for sure, plus a crazy melodrama Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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Racket, The 1951 direction : John Cromwell Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott Robert Ryan |
Boring propaganda
crime noir about the heroic battle of a few against the organized crime. McCarthy-ism was raging and the films became lduller. A pity, with a genre icon like Lizabeth Scott - those eyebrows! and with favourite actors as Robert Ryan and Robert Mitchum |
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Raw Deal 1948 direction : Anthony Mann Dennis O'Keefe |
Rock-hard film noir
when a gangster is about to take revenge on his ex- fellow gangsters with the help of the innocent Ann, who are drawn into the world of crime. From the master of hardboiled Film Noir |
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Roadhouse 1948 direction : Jean Negulesco Richard Widmark, Ida Lupino |
Noir drama where 2
business companions running a joint clashing over a hot femme fatale Film Noir woman. Widmark, who was typecasted a lot after the Hit "Kiss of Death" giggles hysterically a lot and seeks revenge. Sorry, but i didn't like this very much |
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Sellout, The 1952 direction: Gerald Mayer Walter Pidgeon, Audrey Totter |
Anti-Corruption thriller
with a newspaper man and a prosecutor up against a corrupted Sheriff. Read more on the picture link |
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Shed No Tears 1948 direction : Jean Yarbrough June Vincent, Wallace Ford |
Hardboiled B noir
bordering to the C when an old man with a too young |
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Slightly Scarlet 1956 direction: Allan Dwan Rhonda Fleming, John Payne |
Good Crime-Noir drama
based on James M. Cains Love's Lovely Counterfeit with a smart gangster and his two sisters. Commentary track with author Max Allan Collins. Läs mer på bildlänken (in swedish) |
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T-Men 1947 direction : Anthony Mann Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade |
Hardboiled legendary
Film Noir crime entry to genre with lots of police procedure and lots of hardboiled cops from hardboiled genre master Mann |
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Where the Sidewalk Ends direction: Otto Preminger Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney |
Dana is good as a
Bad Cop when he kills a suspect and then tries to erase the tracks, and then he falls in love with the dead man's widow, Crime drama directed by Otto Preminger. Read more on the picture link |
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Whirlpool direction: Otto Preminger Gene Tierney, Richard Conte |
Psychological crime
drama where a society woman (Gene Tierney) who's a shoplifter is also suspected of having committed a murder. Otto made it! Read more on the picture link |
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