Director John Farrow’s sensitive 1945 release is an interesting and amusing but sometimes hard-to-take World War Two romantic comedy weepie plus wartime morale booster and American patriotic flag-waver. The 23-year-old Lizabeth Scott stars in her […]
After 1947’s Out of the Past, Robert Mitchum partners entrancing femme fatale Jane Greer again in director Don Siegel’s commendably taut, fast-paced 1949 film noir thriller The Big Steal. Mitchum plays an army lieutenant called […]
The lurid, hard-to-resist 1947 film noir crime drama Desert Fury stars Lizabeth Scott as gorgeous young husky blonde Paula Haller, daughter of powerful Nevada saloon and casino owner Fritzi (Mary Astor). Director Lewis Allen’s lurid, […]
Co-writer/director André de Toth’s impressive 1948 film noir crime thriller Pitfall pairs Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott, both in their prime, along with Jane Wyatt and Raymond Burr. It is based on the novel The Pitfall by Jay Dratler. […]
The tough and gritty 1951 film noir crime thriller The Racket boasts a great cast headed by stars Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott and Robert Ryan. Director John Cromwell’s tough and gritty 1951 gangster thriller The […]
The riveting 1946 thriller The Strange Love of Martha Ivers mixes film noir with steamy melodrama. It is notable for Barbara Stanwyck’s brio turn and for Kirk Douglas in his star-making film debut. Director Lewis […]
Writer-director Mike Hodges’s acclaimed 1972 cult movie is a jokey homage to or send-up of the film noir genre. It stars Michael Caine as a seedy writer of sleazy pulp fiction novels called Mickey King, who […]
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