A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress. Read More »
Film-Noir
Allotment Wives (1945) William Nigh, Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers’ pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action. Read More »
His Kind of Woman (1951) John Farrow, Richard Fleischer, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. His plan involves “honest” gambler Dan Milner, who’s subjected to a series of “misfortunes,” then bribed to take a trip to Mexico. Read More »
Rogues Regiment (1948) Robert Florey, Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Vincent Price, Action, Adventure, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller, War
After World War II, ex-soldiers trickle into French Saigon to join the Foreign Legion, among them American Whit Corbett and German Carl Reicher. Read More »
Angel Face (1953) Otto Preminger, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Read More »
Before I Wake / Shadow of Fear (1955) Albert S. Rogell, Mona Freeman, Jean Kent, Maxwell Reed, Mystery, Film-Noir
A woman travels to England to attend her parents’ funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn’t buy it. Read More »
The Guilty (1947) John Reinhardt, Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two guys, sharing an apartment, meet twin girls. One is Shirley Temple grown-up, and the other is a major piece of bad news. Read More »
Dragnet (1954) Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Saturday, April 9: A known bookie named Miller Starkie has been “cut in half” by a sawed-off, double-barrel shotgun. Read More »
Jail Bait (1954) Edward D. Wood Jr., Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Clancy Malone, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor’s plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops. Read More »
Afsporet / Derailed (1942) Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen, Illona Wieselmann, Ebbe Rode, Poul Reumert, Crime, Drama, Romance, Film-Noir
“Afsporet” (Derailed) focuses on the intense erotic relationship between a rich woman suffering from amnesia and petty thief on probation entangled with organized crime. Read More »
No Man of Her Own (1950) Mitchell Leisen, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Drama, Film-Noir
In a mansion in Caulfield, Illinois, Patrice Harkness and Bill Harkness are waiting for the police. Read More »
The Story of Molly X (1949) Crane Wilbur, June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Molly’s husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he’s shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Read More »
The Las Vegas Story (1952) Robert Stevenson, Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Investment broker Lloyd Rollins, insisting to his wife Linda that they stop at Las Vegas on their trip from Boston, begins to gamble heavily. Read More »
Trapped (1949) Richard Fleischer, Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
With fake $20 bills flooding the system, U.S. Treasury agents seek the help of a jailed master counterfeiter (Bridges). Read More »
Nightmare Alley (1947) Edmund Goulding, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Drama, Film-Noir
The ambitious Stanton “Stan” Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. Read More »