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Subgenre Sampler
Niagara (1952)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters… - This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
Planter's Wife, The (Outpost in Malaya) (1952)- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel… - Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins star in this fiery actioner as plantation owners under siege from commie bandits. Colbert is a dab hand with a…
Scandal Sheet (1952)- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek - When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…
Sudden Fear (1952)- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame… - Enjoyable potboiler with Palance as an ambitious young actor who sets out to seduce and destroy wealthy playwright Crawford. Rollicking…
Venetian Bird (Assassin) (1952)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson… - Complex thriller with a detective sent to Venice by an insurance company finds himself on the run after being framed for a series of murders.…
Detective Story (1951)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Cathy O'Donnell… - Kirk Douglas is his grizzled, hard–bitten self as one of several detectives trying to get through the work day at a busy Brooklyn…
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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