Crime Films and TV
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American black marketeer Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) sells guns to Syrian rebels fighting French colonial rule in 1925 Damascus. French General LaSalle (Everett Sloane) wants rebel sympathizers executed, and Harry stands directly in harm's way. "Sirocco" (1951) #filmnoir
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Nightclub owner Johnny Solo (Leo Genn) is at odds with a rival club. His lady friend Midnight Franklin (Jayne Mansfield) wants him to ditch the club scene. As things heat up, Johnny unknowingly plays a role in the death of a chorus girl. "Playgirl After Dark" (1960) #neonoir
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Former naval officer Dan Corbett (Arthur Franz) goes to work on the docks, unaware of that his employer, Zero Saxon (Michael Ansara), is a racketeer. When thugs kill a dock manager, Corbett goes undercover for the police. "New Orleans Uncensored" (1955) #filmnoir
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Jun 11
The Devereauxs, Ed (Paul Valentine) and Paul (George Reeves), are losing their farm, so they decide to rob a train. Det. Johnny Douglas (William Eythe) Investigates with help from Lucille Peters (Kasey Rogers) — her dad died in the robbery. "Special Agent" (1949) #filmnoir
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University student Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) dates Dorothy Kingship (Joanne Woodward), but he's really only interested in her father's fortune. She gets pregnant — oops, there goes her inheritance. So Bud cooks up a plot to do her in. "A Kiss Before Dying" (1956) #filmnoir
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Paul Driscoll (Richard Dix) defends rich kid Tony Stevens (Elisha Cook Jr.) who allegedly killed a woman and maimed her child in a drunken driving accident. Driscoll wrestles with his conscience as he learns more about his client. "The Devil Is Driving" (1937) #noir
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Jun 7
Claims adjuster Barton Keyes (Edward G.
Robinson) has a theory about the murder that drives "Double Indemnity" (1944), and it fits together like a watch, he declaims. The same is true of the film — crafted and assembled like the movement of a fine Swiss timepiece. #filmnoir
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Widow Helen Gordon (Ida Lupino) hires handyman Howard Wilton (Robert Ryan) to help with house repairs and cleaning. But he soon reveals himself to be paranoid, unstable and menacing, and he holds her prisoner in her home. "Beware, My Lovely" (1952) #filmnoir
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Con artist Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) uses up every morsel of good will he might receive from friends as he scrambles to host wrestling matches in London. Fast talking only takes him so far, and he's stepped on some important toes in "Night and the City" (1950). #filmnoir
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Sadistic prison security chief Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) cruelly manipulates convicts into informing on one another and breaking prison rules so that he can punish them. But inmate Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster) has been pushed too far — in "Brute Force" (1947). #filmnoir
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Jun 3
Tom Neal, ‘Detour’ (1945). Pure noir shows us the darkest side of average people caught in a downward spiral. (Click link to read) #filmnoir
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Det. Sgt. Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) must protect a gangster's widow, Mrs. Frankie Neall (Marie Windsor), who's on her way to testify before a grand jury. Trouble is, they're aboard a train and so are killers who want her dead, in "The Narrow Margin" (1952) #filmnoir
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Jun 1
Few babysitters could be so heartily disrecommended as Nell Forbes (Marilyn Monroe) in "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952). An unsuspecting couple leaves her in charge of their little darling on elevator operator Eddie Forbes's (Elisha Cook Jr.) suggestion. Bad move. #filmnoir
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Roy Roberts, Jack Webb, ‘He Walked by Night’ (1948). Jack Webb parlayed the docudrama style into ‘Dragnet,’ a police procedural broadcast on radio and TV in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. #filmnoir (click link to read).
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Upstanding citizen Frank Enley (Van Heflin) isn't all that he seems to be. In "Act of Violence" (1949), former war buddy Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) makes an unwelcome appearance and Frank's comfortable, small-town life will hereafter be shaken. #filmnoir
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Cheating at craps is Johnny Farrell's (Glenn Ford) forte, until he's hired at a fancy Buenos Aires casino. Trouble is, he and his new boss's wife, Gilda (Rita Hayworth), were once involved and parted bitterly - but passion is not easily extinguished, in"Gilda" (1946). #filmnoir
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Ex-con Bill Clark (Steve Cochran) has hardly tasted freedom before he and dance hall girl Cathy Higgins (Ruth Roman) are on the run. In "Tomorrow is Another Day" (1951), she's got a secret that may get her off the hook. Too bad Bill will have to face the music. #filmnoir
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Agent Casey Reed (Gene Barry) must find an Arab prince kidnapped by communists. The Arab nation is about to sign an accord with the United States that would allow the U.S. to build a missile base there. The communists want to crush that. "Hong Kong Confidential" (1958) #filmnoir
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