
An actress Shelley Carnes (Ruth Roman), is looking forward to an exciting vacation at a dude ranch, but she gets more than she bargained for,including a perhaps murderous new husband. Read More »
Film-Noir
The Strange Door (1951) Joseph Pevney, Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Horror, Thriller, Film-Noir

Noble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton) Read More »
Appointment with Danger (1951) Lewis Allen, Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. Read More »
Terror on a Train / Time Bomb (1953) Ted Tetzlaff, Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A terrorist has placed a bomb on board a train transporting sea mines to Portsmouth. The train is stopped but near a small town, which actually exacerbates the problem. Read More »
Murder by Proxy / Blackout (1954) Terence Fisher, Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir

An American in London, down on his luck, runs into a beautiful blonde in a bar who offers him a lot of money to marry her. Read More »
Pushover (1954) Richard Quine, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. Read More »
A Kiss Before Dying (1956) Gerd Oswald, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Bud Corliss (Wagner) is an ambitious student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Woodward) purely for her father’s mining fortune. Read More »
Chicago Deadline (1949) Lewis Allen, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Read More »
Golden Salamander (1950) Ronald Neame, Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

British archaeologist David Redfern comes to Tunisia to catalog a collection of art relics and stumbles into evidence of a gun-smuggling racket. Read More »
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) Felix E. Feist, Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Rich Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, finds he’s bought a gun. Read More »