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 »
Film-Noir
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) Fritz Lang, Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Investigative reporter Tom Garrett is on leave from his newspaper job to work on his second novel. 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 »
The Spider (1945) Robert D. Webb, Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, Kurt Kreuger
An ex-cop who’s currently a private detective is hired by a woman to function as go-between in regaining a significant envelope from her spouse. 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 »
The Fake (1953) Godfrey Grayson, Dennis O’Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams
An American has to guard da Vinci’s “Madonna and Child” when it is being shown in Britain. When it arrives he suspects it is not the real painting. Read More »
Under the Gun (1951) Ted Tetzlaff, Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire
New York gangster Bart Galvin (Richard Conte) is sent to a prison-farm in Florida for killing one of his enemies in Miami. Read More »