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Crooks frame a youngster (Robert Lowery) for murder and force him to help them commit a series of robberies, in the efficient 1946 film noir crime thriller They Made Me a Killer. Director William C […]
Director Anthony Mann’s 1945 Republic Pictures film noir mystery thriller The Great Flamarion stars Erich von Stroheim, Dan Duryea and Mary Beth Hughes. It is based on a character created by Vicki Baum and the […]
‘THEY SLASHED A CRIME-SCAR ACROSS THE MAP OF AMERICA!’ Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s tremendous 1950 Warner Bros gangster film noir crime drama Highway 301 stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, […]
The suspenseful 1950 film noir Union Station stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald and Nancy Olson. A villain (Lyle Bettger) abducts a blind teenage girl (Allene Roberts) for the ransom, but a tough police lieutenant (William […]
MGM’s 1952 crime film noir The Sellout stars Walter Pidgeon as a big-city newspaper editor who digs the dirt on a corrupt small-town sheriff and finds his life threatened. Audrey Totter also stars notably as […]
The Green Glove (1952) script is by Charles Bennett. The whole stolen bejewelled gauntlet idea is a MacGuffin, which reminds us that Bennett is best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Director Rudolph Maté’s […]
The redoubtable Judith Anderson is particularly impressive as Chicago lady mobster Slade in the film noir crime thriller Lady Scarface (1941). Director Frank Woodruff’s 1941 RKO Radio Pictures black and white American film noir crime […]