ONE WAY STREET
1950 Universal 79 min USA Hugo Fregonese Even though he had just begun his American film career, James Mason already had his doomed-fugitive persona down pat in ODD MAN OUT and THE RECKLESS MOMENT....
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1957 Sony Repertory 79 min USA Jacques Tourneur One of the last true noirs of the classic era, this often-overlooked gem, based on a novel by noir legend David Goodis, features terrific direction from...
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DETOUR
1946 Wade Williams 70 min USA Edgar G. Ulmer “Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you” in this low-budget noir classic. Hitchhiking to Hollywood, loser Tom Neal takes several wrong...
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1951 Superior Pictures 91 min USA Joseph Losey The American version of Fritz Lang’s 1931 classic about a child murderer being simultaneously hunted by the police and the underworld receives renewed...
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1953 RKO 71 min USA Ida Lupino A groundbreaking, fact-based story of two pals on a Mexican fishing trip kidnapped by a serial killer who terrorizes both men into delivering him to safety. The only...
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SCARLET STREET
1945 Kino Lorber 103 min USA Fritz Lang Fritz Lang's classic film noir reunited his WOMAN IN THE WINDOW stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea in a reworking of Jean Renoir's 1931 LA...
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HANGMEN ALSO DIE!
1943 Cohen Film 134 min USA Fritz Lang Bertolt Brecht co-wrote this story about a Czech man (Brian Donlevy) on the run after killing a brutal SS officer during the Nazi occupation. Frequent Brecht...
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CLASH BY NIGHT
1952 Warner Bros. 105 min USA Fritz Lang Director Fritz Lang adds plenty of sizzle to Clifford Odets’ play about a love triangle in a coastal town. A wash-out in New York, Barbara Stanwyck returns home...
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1948 Warner Bros. 101 min USA John Huston Humphrey Bogart is Frank McCloud, a down-on-his-luck veteran visiting the father (Lionel Barrymore) and sister (Lauren Bacall) of his dead WWII buddy at their...
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1947 Warner Bros. 106 min USA Delmer Daves In this third collaboration between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Bogie plays Vincent Parry, a man wrongly accused of murdering his wife, who breaks out...
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1946 Park Circus/MGM 95 min USA Orson Welles Director Orson Welles’ suspenseful study of an escaped Nazi war criminal (played by Welles himself) living in a small Connecticut town, who is pursued by a...
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1946 Warner Bros. 85 min USA John Brahm On his wedding day, a groom (Brian Aherne) is told stunning tales regarding the troubled past of his bride-to-be (Laraine Day), including her destructive affair...
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1951 Park Circus/MGM 78 min USA John Berry John Garfield's final film role, and one of his best. He talks a young woman (Shelley Winters) into inviting him home for dinner - but he takes her family...
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1950 Warner Brothers 112 min John Huston The kingpin of caper films, featuring one of the best ensemble casts ever. Director John Huston's neo-realist adaptation of W. R. Burnett’s novel examines the...
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1950 20th Century Fox 96 min UK/USA Jules Dassin One of the most baroque and bleak film noirs of them all, its greatness - besides Richard Widmark's devastating portrayal of the maniacal, pathetic con...
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1946 20th Century Fox 111 min USA John Stahl Exhibit A in the argument that film noir isn't always black-and-white. Don't let the stunningly lush Technicolor fool you - this big-budget soap opera has...
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1947 20th Century Fox 66 min USA Eugene Forte When a body is discovered in a burned-out car, the police have to ID the victim before they can hunt down the killer. This down-and-dirty B movie...
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1948 Paramount 101 min USA William Dieterle A spinsterish college professor (Loretta Young) finds herself in jeopardy after killing an amorous student in self-defense. As the noose tightens around her,...
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1949 Universal 86 min USA Lewis Allen Alan Ladd is a newspaper reporter obsessed with a young woman he finds dead in a cheap brothel. Connecting the dots all around Chicago, he cobbles together the sad...
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1950 20th Century Fox 95 min USA Otto Preminger Dana Andrews gives one of his most compelling performances as an angry and haunted New York cop whose violent streak leads to the killing of an informer....
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