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Subgenre Sampler
Murder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley… - An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel. Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
Phantom Lady (1944)- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac… - Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
To Have and Have Not (1944)- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart - In the upper–bracket of Bogart films, this first time match–up with Lauren Bacall still sets the screen alight. Adapted from the…
Woman in the Window, The (1944)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey - Fritz Lang applies his quietly gripping style to this highly–ranked film–noir in which Criminology Professor Edward G Robinson is led…
Hangmen Also Die (1943)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee… - Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
Across the Pacific (1942)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor - Bogie and director Huston reunite with other MALTESE FALCON leads for a similarly toned WW2 spy adventure set on the eve of Pearl Harbour. Huston was…
Glass Key, The (1942)- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy - Alan Ladd re–teams with blonde siren Veronica Lake in this almighty film noir of divided loyalties, crooked politicians, and underworld snares.…
Journey into Fear (1942)- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles… - Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey. Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Ossessione (1942)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani - Visconti's awesome debut interprets James Cain's novel of lust, greed, murder and recrimination, The Postman Always Rings Twice. Its stark rendering…
This Gun for Hire (1942)- Dir. Frank Tuttle
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston… - Dynamite film noir, with Alan Ladd leaping to prominence as an unsmiling hitman embroiled in a vicious revenge quest for a traitorous confederate,…
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