Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Pickup On South Street (1953)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark - Pick–pocket Richard Widmark inadvertently steals a micro–film and becomes a fugitive from both police and spies. Vivid espionage thriller…
Angel Face (1952)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons - Jean Simmons is a woman possessed in this quietly unconventional film noir, playing a take–no–prisoners femme fatale who systematically…
Clash by Night (1952)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe - Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Kansas City Confidential (1952)- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray… - A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld. Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Narrow Margin (1952)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White… - A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Sniper, The (1952)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr… - Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
He Ran All The Way (1951)- Dir. John Berry
Feat. John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford - Tense film noir features John Garfield as a bank robber on the run and Shelly Winters as the woman who takes him into her home. Garfield's final…
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond… - Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles. As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…
Prowler, The (1951)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell… - This underseen "perv noir" deliciously subverts archetypes by twisting its menacing male lead (a terrific Van Heflin) into a 'homme fatale', replete…
Racket, The (1951)- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott… - An incorruptible police captain's attempts to clean up the streets of his town leads to confrontation with the local mob boss. Minor noir, previously…
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