Check out all of the posts tagged with "Film noir".
Director John Cromwell’s tough and gritty 1951 gangster thriller The Racket boasts a great cast headed by stars Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, Ray Collins and William Talman. It is all that is hoped […]
Director Lewis Milestone’s deservedly much admired 1946 thriller The Strange Love of Martha Ivers mixes film noir with steamy melodrama. The result is this fascinating and riveting excursion into one woman’s nightmare. It is notable […]
‘Once I trusted a dame… now I Walk Alone!’ Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott star with Wendell Corey and Kirk Douglas in director Byron Haskin’s authentic 1947 film noir I Walk Alone. ‘Once I trusted a […]
‘She Got What She Wanted… With Lies… With Kisses… With Murder!’ Lizabeth Scott triumphs in her best movie role as Jane Palmer, a ruthless femme fatale who stumbles across a case filled with $60,000 worth […]
David Caruso stars as ex-con Jimmy Kilmartin who battles Nicolas Cage’s psychotic mobster Little Junior Brown in a basic, nastily violent crime thriller flick that’s no more than a cheesy B-movie. It’s flashy and atmospheric, but […]
Director Taylor Hackford delivers a satisfyingly twisty, fascinating 1984 neo noir remake of the classic 1947 Robert Mitchum-Jane Greer-Kirk Douglas film noir thriller Out of the Past. This time, in Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges stars […]
Director Jules Dassin’s 1947 film noir prison-break thriller Brute Force is admirably tough and exciting, quite brutal for its day. It has exactly the right star in Burt Lancaster as Westgate Penitentiary inmate Joe Collins, […]