After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Read More »
Film-Noir
The Naked City (1948) Jules Dassin, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter Read More »
Flesh and Fury (1952) Joseph Pevney, Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling, Mona Freeman
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow Read More »
99 River Street (1953) Phil Karlson, John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter
Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll Read More »
You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939) Lewis Seiler, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie’s sister Madge’s Read More »
Ministry of Fear (1944) Fritz Lang, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. Read More »
Istanbul (1957) Joseph Pevney, Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley
Adventurer James Brennan returns to Istanbul five years after being ejected under suspicion of diamond smuggling. Read More »
Anna Lucasta (1949) Irving Rapper, Paulette Goddard, William Bishop, John Ireland
Anna Lucasta (Paulette Goddard)is disowned by her cruel father, Joe Lucasta (Oskar Homolka) Read More »
The Underworld Story (1950) Cy Endfield, Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm
Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing Read More »
Call Northside 777 (1948) Henry Hathaway, James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Read More »
Cell 2455, Death Row (1955) Fred F. Sears, William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr
Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 Read More »
Rumble on the Docks (1956) Fred F. Sears, James Darren, Laurie Carroll, Michael Granger
In 1950s Brooklyn, 17-year old Jimmy Smigelski, son of hard-working, honest Polish immigrants Read More »
Man on the Prowl (1957) Art Napoleon, Mala Powers, James Best, Ted de Corsia
The young Doug Gerhardt is a slasher and a homicidal sex maniac. Read More »
Tokyo Joe (1949) Stuart Heisler, Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe’s, and deserted his wife Trina. Read More »
Black Hand (1950) Richard Thorpe, Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli
Now grown-up, Johnny Columbo returns to New York from Italy having sworn a vendetta against Read More »