Deadline at Dawn
Genres: Romance, Mystery, Film-Noir
Year: 1946
Country: USA
Director: Harold Clurman
Starring: Susan Hayward, Marvin Miller, Joe Sawyer, Joseph Crehan, Jerome Cowan, Paul Lukas, Steven Geray
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Alex, a sailor on leave, recovers from a drink-induced blackout with a large sum of money belonging to Edna Bartelli, a b-girl who invited him home to "fix her radio." He tries to return it with the reluctant aid of June Goth, a sweet but oh-so-tired dance hall girl; they find Edna murdered. Not quite sure he didn't do it himself, Alex and June have four hours in the dead of night to find the real killer before his leave ends. Their quest brings them into contact with a sleazy kaleidoscope of minor characters; clues get more and more tangled...
Vicki
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Year: 1953
Country: USA
Director: Harry Horner
Starring: Richard Boone, Elliott Reid, Max Showalter, Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Alexander D'Arcy, Carl Betz
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Supermodel Vicki Lynn, whose face is seen everywhere, is murdered, and ace homicide cop Ed Cornell cuts his vacation short to take the case personally. In flashback we see how Vicki rose from ambitious waitress to big black headlines, courtesy of clever publicity man Steve Christopher. Now Cornell seems determined to get Christopher convicted in what begins to seem like a bizarre personal vendetta. Is Steve caught like a rat in a trap?
The Shanghai Gesture
Year: 1941
Country: USA
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Starring: Mikhail Rasumny, Victor Mature, Mike Mazurki, Rex Evans, Gene Tierney, Maria Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore
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A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Shanghai, forcing Gin Sling to vacate by the coming Chinese New Year. Under orders from Gin Sling, who has found out Poppy is Charteris' daughter, the smarmy Doctor Omar leads Poppy deeper and deeper into an addiction to gambling and alcohol. Gin Sling, realizing that Charteris was her long-ago husband who she thinks abandoned her, plans her revenge by inviting Charteris to a Chinese New Year dinner p...
Apology for Murder
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1945
Country: USA
Director: Sam Newfield
Starring: Budd Buster, Pierre Watkin, Russell Hicks, Henry Hall, Hugh Beaumont, Charles D. Brown, Wheaton Chambers
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Reporter Kenny Blake falls in love with scheming Toni Kirkland not knowing that she is married to a man years older than she. By the time he finds out, he is so under her spell that he murders her husband which is what Toni had planned all along. City editor McKee, Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. The latter is mortally wounded by Toni, who has deserted him for another man.
The Phenix City Story
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1955
Country: USA
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Helen Martin, Richard Kiley, John McIntire, Biff McGuire, George Mitchell, John Larch, Edward Andrews
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In this semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that's grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling, directed at soldiers from Fort Benning across the river. Lawyer John Patterson, back from the army, is triggered by what he sees to join the reformers with a plan: to run his father Albert for state attorney general. The syndicate responds with escalating violence: is no one safe? Credits preceded by a "newscast" containing spoilers.
The Prowler
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Robert Osterloh, Madge Blake, Van Heflin, Louise Lorimer, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren
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The screenplay of Joseph Loseys The Prowler (1951 Horizon Pictures), was written by blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who also wrote another film noir script, Gun Crazy (1950). The Prowler is a sordid tale of passion, entrapment, and betrayal. Suburbia cast as a dark nightmare, where the predator comes disguised as protector. Bravura performances from the two leads carry a flawed script forward to a classic denouement at the base of a tailings dump on the dusty outskirts of a ghost-town.
Railroaded! aka Uncertain Guilt
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: John Ireland, Clancy Cooper, Roy Gordon, Jane Randolph, Hugh Beaumont, Charles D. Brown, Keefe Brasselle
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Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend, mob collector Duke Martin, to stage a robbery of the day's take. But the caper turns violent; a cop and Duke's partner are shot; and Duke arranges for innocent Steve Ryan, owner of the car they stole, to be framed. At first homicide detective Mickey Ferguson thinks Steve is guilty, despite his attraction to Steve's sister Rosie. And the suave but ruthless Duke won't hesitate to keep it that way with more of his perfumed bullets...
Appointment with Danger
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: Lewis Allen
Starring: Harry Morgan, Paul Stewart, Alan Ladd, Jan Sterling, Dan Riss, Murray Alper, Paul Lees
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Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.
Lured
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Charles Coburn, Alan Mowbray, Alan Napier, George Zucco, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Boris Karloff
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A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer advertisements in the personal columns and so lure the killer.
Sunset Blvd.
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Hedda Hopper, H.B. Warner, William Holden, Larry J. Blake, Franklyn Farnum, Nancy Olson, Buster Keaton
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The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Year: 1944
Country: USA
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: John Abbott, Eduardo Ciannelli, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Steven Geray, Kurt Katch, Victor Francen
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A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, to learn more about the man. Along the way, he is joined by mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Nightfall
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1957
Country: USA
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Jocelyn Brando, Frank Albertson, Brian Keith, James Gregory, Anne Bancroft, Aldo Ray, Rudy Bond
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YOU COULD GO TO THE MOVIES EVERY DAY FOR FIVE YEARS---BEFORE YOU'D SEE ANOTHER PICTURE WITH SO MANY THRILLS AND SO MUCH SUSPENSE!
Human Desire
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Peggy Maley, Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Grandon Rhodes, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case
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Engineer Jeff, returning from Japan, falls in Love with his co-worker Carl's wife Vicky, who both committed a murder. Naturally Carl gets jealous but can't say a thing because Jeff knows a little bit about the case.
Side Street
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Whit Bissell, Charles McGraw, John Gallaudet, Harry Bellaver, Adele Jergens
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Joe Norson, a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, yields to momentary temptation and steals $30,000 belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers who won't stop at murder. After a few days of soul-searching, Joe offers to return the money, only to find that the "friend" he left it with has absconded. Now every move Joe makes plunges him deeper into trouble, as he's pursued and pursuing through the shadowy, sinister side of New York.
Dial 1119
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Gerald Mayer
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Sam Levene, Hal Baylor, Leon Ames, William Conrad, Virginia Field, James Bell
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A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.
5 Against the House
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1955
Country: USA
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Brian Keith, Kim Novak, Alvy Moore, William Conrad, Jean Willes, Guy Madison, Kerwin Mathews
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Four college buddies enjoy a night at a Reno casino and overhear a cop saying that robbing the casino "cannot be done." That gets the brainiest rich kid among them thinking up a plan for the perfect robbery. He convinces the others to join in when they hear that it will only be a college hoax, his plan being to let the police know where the money is afterwards. The thing is, one of his friends has a head injury from the war, and has no intention of returning a dime.
Murder by Contract
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Director: Irving Lerner
Starring: Janet Brandt, Davis Roberts, Vince Edwards, Michael Granger, Phillip Pine, Gloria Victor, Herschel Bernardi
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Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.
Backfire
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Vincent Sherman
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Viveca Lindfors, Ed Begley, Gordon MacRae, Dane Clark, Richard Rober, John Ridgely
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Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans' hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connally, with whom he intended to buy a ranch, has disappeared under circumstance that indicate he may have been involved in a murder. Accompianied by his nurse, Julie Benson, with whom he has fallen in love, Bob follows a series of clues and incidents, including three more murders, that leads to a gambler, masquerading as an undertaker to avoid taxes on his illegal income, has a whole lot to do with his friend's predicament.
Storm Warning
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Hugh Sanders, Ned Glass, Paul E. Burns, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Ginger Rogers
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Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha sees the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey in bringing the criminals to justice.
The Red House
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Delmer Daves
Starring: Arthur Space, Rory Calhoun, Judith Anderson, Harry Shannon, Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Allene Roberts
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Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath to come help with chores on the farm: Pete isn't getting around on his wooden leg like he used to. When Nath insists on using a short cut home through the woods, Pete gets quite agitated and warns him of screams in the night, of terrors associated with the red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring. Meg begins falling in love with Nath, but his girlfriend Tibby has other plans for him. Meanwhile they all get closer to real danger and the dark secret of the red house.