When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby Read More »
Film-Noir
Detective Story (1951) William Wyler, Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation Read More »
Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets Read More »
Spy Hunt (1950) George Sherman, Howard Duff, Märta Torén, Philip Friend
Roger Quain, who escorts two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris Read More »
The Killer Is Loose (1956) Budd Boetticher, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. Read More »
The Leopard Man (1943) Jacques Tourneur, Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) Read More »
Night and the City (1950) Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. Read More »
Gorilla at Large (1954) Harmon Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb
At sinister carnival The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is Goliath Read More »
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 »
The Blue Gardenia (1953) Fritz Lang, Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
In Los Angeles, on the day of her birthday, the telephone operator Norah Larkin Read More »