During the Korean War, a soldier promises his dying buddy that he’ll look after the man’s family when he gets home. He winds up getting more than he bargained for. Read More »
Film-Noir
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) Don Siegel, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Producer Walter Wanger, who had just been released from a prison term after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film about the appalling conditions he saw while he was incarcerated. Read More »
Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. Read More »
The Big Bluff (1955) W. Lee Wilder, John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Read More »
Finger Man (1955) Harold D. Schuster, Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Treasury agents, desperate to get evidence on syndicate kingpin Dutch Becker, give ex-con hood Casey Martin a choice…life in prison or courting sudden death as a government ‘finger man.’ Read More »
I, the Jury (1953) Harry Essex, Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
It’s nearly Christmas, but Mike Hammer is on the vengeance trail when Jack, his wartime buddy, is murdered. Read More »
Hell Bound (1957) William J. Hole Jr., John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal gang plots the robbery of a ship carrying $2 million worth of surplus narcotics left over from World War II. Read More »
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950) Gordon Douglas, Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Read More »
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957) Arnold Laven, Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men gun down Solly Pitts, ‘rebel’ against the racket-ridden Longshoremen’s Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife ‘Cockeye’ Cook was one of the killers…but won’t repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. Read More »
Fear (1946) Alfred Zeisler, Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A medical student–broke, hungry and desperate for money–is hired to murder a loan shark. After the killing he is tormented by guilt over what he’s done. Read More »
Somewhere in the Night (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the World War II, a soldier is hit by a grenade that deforms his face and leaves him with amnesia. Read More »
The Madonnas Secret (1946) Wilhelm Thiele, Francis Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer’s 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. Read More »
Specter of the Rose (1946) Ben Hecht, Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Romance, Thriller
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he’s not the only one. Sanine is charming, if a little peculiar. Read More »
Missing Women (1951) Philip Ford, Penny Edwards, James Millican, John Gallaudet, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Claudia Rankin’s husband of one hour is murdered after they stop on an isolated road. When the police appear, to her, to be taking their time about finding the killer, Claudia changes her name and appearance and starts her own investigation. Read More »
Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) Phil Rosen, Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress. Read More »