During the 1950s, the New York garment industry is going through a turmoil. Read More »
Crime
Flaxy Martin (1949) Richard L. Bare, Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Unscrupulous showgirl Flaxy Martin involves young attorney Walter Colby with mobster Hap Richie. Read More »
Destination Murder (1950) Edward L. Cahn, Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Laura Mansfield’s father is killed, apparently by a telegraphic messenger. She spots Jackie Wales in a police lineup, but can’t identify him positively. Read More »
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. Read More »
Cobra (1986) George P. Cosmatos, Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Action, Crime, Thriller
Los Angeles policeman Lt. Marion “Cobra” Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) finds himself at the center of a spate of murders carried out by a secret society called New Order Read More »
The Get-Away (1941) Edward Buzzell, Richard Rosson, Robert Sterling, Charles Winninger, Donna Reed, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
A government agent goes under cover in prison to gain confidence with a wanted criminal and get information regarding his gang. Read More »
Shockproof (1949) Douglas Sirk, Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Jenny Marsh, still dangerously attractive after 5 years in prison for killing a man in defense of her shady lover Harry Read More »
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) Gordon Douglas, Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
The FBI infiltrates one of their agents in the US Communist Party. Read More »
Second Chance (1953) Rudolph Maté, Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Claire Sinclair is hiding in Mexico to avoid testifying against her gangster boyfriend. Read More »
The Clouded Yellow (1950) Ralph Thomas, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate – cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. Read More »
A Tragedy at Midnight (1942) Joseph Santley, John Howard, Margaret Lindsay, Roscoe Karns, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. Read More »
The Outside Man (1972) Jacques Deray, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. Read More »
Backfire (1950) Vincent Sherman, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans’ hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connelly, with whom he intended to buy a ranch Read More »
Possessed (1947) Curtis Bernhardt, Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles in some sort of emotional distress. She is also under some delusion as she approaches many men, strangers who she calls “David”. Read More »
The Prize (1963) Mark Robson, Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Crime, Drama, Mystery
For some reason, this year’s Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Read More »