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Posts Tagged "Film noir"
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The Hitch-Hiker **** (1953, Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 2563
Director Ida Lupino’s tense and compelling 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker has two fishing-trip travellers Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen (Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy) leaving their wives and picking up the sinister hitch-hiker Emmett Myers (William Talman), a […]
Force of Evil ***** (1948, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 2556
Co-writer/director Abraham Polonsky’s dynamic, first-rate 1948 film noir crime thriller stars John Garfield, who gives a superlative performance as Joe Morse, a gangster’s attorney who lets his greed overcome his sense of morality. Morse is […]
The Brasher Doubloon [The High Window] **** (1947, George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 2496
Director John Brahm’s 1947 film noir detective thriller The Brasher Doubloon is smart and intriguing, though, even so, it is probably the least good (apart from Michael Winner’s The Big Sleep) and least well-known (apart […]
No Man of Her Own **** (1950, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl, Lyle Bettger) – Classic Movie Review 2258
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1950 movie is an engrossing, complex and powerfully acted mix of film noir thriller and romantic melodrama based on a splendidly far-fetched crime novel called I Married a Dead Man by Cornell […]
The File on Thelma Jordon ***** (1949, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober) – Classic Movie Review 2,255
Robert Siodmak’s marvellous, ultra-tense 1949 film noir thriller The File on Thelma Jordon stars Barbara Stanwyck as the femme fatale in love with a jewel thief (Richard Rober). Wendell Corey co-stars as hard-drinking, unhappily married […]
Kiss Me Deadly **** (1955, Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 2209
Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir crime movie stars Ralph Meeker, who is on scalding form as Mickey Spillane’s private detective hero Mike Hammer. This first-rate Aldrich thriller is a hugely imaginative, ahead-of-its-time study in paranoia. […]
Pitfall **** (1948, Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt) – Classic Movie Review 2167
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. […]