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Killing, The (1956): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards; Brilliantly observed caper movie from the early career of Mr. Kubrick about an ex–con who organises a heist from a racetrack. You'll be glued…
Please Murder Me (Please Murder Me!) (1956): Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran…; Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury square off in this tough–minded noir about a lawyers who successfully defends his client only to discover…
Unguarded Moment, The (1956): Dir. Harry Keller
Feat. Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon…; Film noir with MGM star Esther Williams playing a High School music teacher and unmarried 'career woman' who is targeted by a stalker. Although…
While the City Sleeps (1956): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders…; Considered a vastly under–rated Fritz Lang noir, this newspaper drama provides plenty of social commentary depicting the story of the "Lipstick…
Big Combo, The (1955): Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy; Late period film noir borders on parody, with light and dialogue straight out of some parallel universe. Untouchables–style story has some…
Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corney; Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…
Desperate Hours, The (1955): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy…; A bunch of escaped convicts, led by Bogart, hold a family hostage in this domestic noir thriller based on the Broadway play by Joseph Hayes.…
Killer's Kiss (1955): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane; Early Kubrick moodily accounts the tooth–and–nail conflict between a washed–up boxer and a sleazeball club owner, after a club…
Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart…; Ralph Meeker is Mike Hammer in this high–octane film noir, shamelessly blood–soaked in B–movie / pulp novel tradition. The…
Rififi (1955): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jean Servais, Jules Dassin, Magali Noel…; The French reclaim film noir with this methodical and stylish heist movie, famous for its 35 minute real–time bank robbery, executed in virtual…

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