A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates Read More »
Film-Noir
Blackmail (1947) Lesley Selander, William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez
A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Read More »
Hunt the Man Down (1950) George Archainbaud, Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson
Dishwasher ‘Bill Jackson’ thwarts a robbery; resulting publicity fingers Read More »
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 »