Dishwasher ‘Bill Jackson’ thwarts a robbery; resulting publicity fingers Read More »
Film-Noir
You and Me (1938) Fritz Lang, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Robert Cummings
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs Read More »
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Robert Aldrich, Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
A frightened woman is running barefoot on a highway, trying desperately to flag a car. Read More »
World for Ransom (1954) Robert Aldrich, Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles
Made by the same production set-up on the same lot that was producing Read More »
Vice Squad (1953) Arnold Laven, Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens
When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby Read More »
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 »