Man accused of a murder he didn’t commit hides out in the South American jungle. Read More »
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San Quentin (1946) Gordon Douglas, Lawrence Tierney, Marian Carr, Barton MacLane
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don’t go as planned. Read More »
Born to Kill (1947) Robert Wise, Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. Read More »
Fatal Passion (1995) T.L. Lankford, Lisa Comshaw, Clayton Norcross, Lawrence Tierney
An artist with a rather unusual art-style literally uses all the men she likes for her artworks. Read More »
The Hoodlum (1951) Max Nosseck, Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. Read More »
Bodyguard (1948) Richard Fleischer, Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Homicide detective Mike Carter is tossed off the police force for insubordination and violating regulations. Read More »
Dillinger (1945) Max Nosseck, Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Biography, Crime, Drama
The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgivably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One.
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) Felix E. Feist, Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Not by any means a great film, The Devil Thumbs a Ride nonetheless has an indefinable audience allure that sucks the viewer into its labyrinthine storyline and doesn’t let go until the fade-out. Lawrence Tierney plays Steve Morgan, a charming but utterly sociopathic criminal who has just robbed and killed a movie theater cashier. Morgan hitches a ride with inebriated conventioneer Jimmy Furguson (Ted North). Later on, Furguson picks up two more hitchhikers: virginal Beulah Zorn (Nan Leslie) and good-time girl Agnes Smith (Betty Lawford). When circumstances lead Jimmy to believe that Steve is the fugitive whom the cops are looking for, Morgan sweet-talks his way into everyone’s confidence. Before he knows what’s happening, Jimmy is holed up in a beach house while Steve parties with Beulah and Agnes. Not even the most fervent of film noir fans will be able to predict the outcome of this one. Long ignored by movie buffs, The Devil Thumbs a Ride gained a large following through repeated TV showings in the 1960s and ’70s. It is now considered so representative of its genre that one film historian used the film’s title for a collection of his essays on B-melodramas.
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Female Jungle (1956) Bruno VeSota, Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine
A blonde actress is murdered across from a bar. An off-duty cop has been getting pleasantly sloshed, but becomes worried about his innocence when he finds out he was seen leaving the establishment with a blonde, but doesn’t remember. As he investigates, he interviews a columnist who was going with the actress, a caricaturist who drew the victim, the caricaturist’s wife who works at the bar, and the caricaturist’s lover, and slowly begins to put the pieces of the deadly puzzle together.
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