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Call Northside 777

Call Northside 777 (1948) starring Jimmy Stewart, Richard Conte In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank’s mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O’Neal (Jimmy Stewart) to look into the case. When he begins to...

December 17, 2021 user film-noir No Comment

Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential (1952) starring John Payne, Preston Foster, Coleen Gray Treachery and betrayal abound when an ex-con is accused of an armored-car robbery in this suspenseful film noir crime drama – Kansas City Confidential

July 8, 2020 user film-noir No Comment

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Elisha Cook Jr. In The Stranger on the Third Floor, an aspiring journalist testifies that he saw a young man at the scene of a brutal killing. The man is sentenced to death. The journalist...

June 27, 2020 user film-noir No Comment

Clash By Night [film noir]

Clash By Night (1952) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe In Clash By Night, a woman is torn between her husband and his friend. Despite thinking about leaving her husband, his temper causes second thoughts …

June 25, 2020 user film-noir No Comment

Marked Woman

Marked Woman (1937) starring Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart Synopsis Young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict gang of racketeers, its czar and his underlings. But when the gangster suspects her, she becomes a Marked Woman.

March 17, 2020 user film-noir No Comment

The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner (1946) starring Lucille Ball, William Bendix, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens Synopsis of The Dark Corner Some men are drawn to women – some men are drawn to murder. In this captivating story of strange obsession, Kathleen Conley (Lucille Ball) and her boss Brad Galt (Mark...

February 13, 2019 user film-noir No Comment

Mystery Street

Mystery Street (1950) starring Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester Synopsis of Mystery Street In Mystery Street, a Harvard professor helps a small town policeman when the skeletal remains of a pregnant prostitute turn up on a Massachusetts beach.

April 15, 2018 user film-noir No Comment

Crossfire

Crossfire (1947) starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchell, Robert Ryan, Sam Levene Synopsis of Crossfire Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan star in this noir classic, the first Hollywood film to confront anti-Semitism. When a police detective and an army sergeant investigate the murder of a Jewish man, their...

February 19, 2018 user film-noir No Comment

Framed

Framed (1947) starring Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan Synopsis of Framed Glenn Ford is down and his luck, but stumbles into 10% of a silver mine after a driving accident in a small town. He meets a lovely waitress and becomes her patsy in a scheme to defraud...

August 22, 2017 user film-noir No Comment

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea Synopsis of The Woman in the Window When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder.

March 14, 2017 user film-noir No Comment