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Subgenre Sampler
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)- Dir. Jack Webb
Feat. Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien… - Musical set in 1920's Kansas which blends jazz, gangsters and political corruption. Directed by and starring Jack Webb as a cornet player who is…
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…
Soldier of Fortune (1955)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie… - Mercenary Clark Gable is recruited to search for Hayward's lost husband in this proficient Hong Kong set thriller. Anti–communist thriller…
Storm Fear (1955)- Dir. Cornel Wilde
Feat. Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea… - Crime noir about a gang member who seeks shelter with his brother's family after being wounded during a botched bank robbery. Once there, he…
Trouble with Harry, The (1955)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine - The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and the townspeople, including a young John Forsyth and Shirley Maclaine, don't quite know how to deal with…
Violent Saturday (1955)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally… - Crisp southern noir in which a bank robbery gone wrong ignites trouble in amongst the morally corrupt citizens of a small town. Ripping dialogue and…
An Inspector Calls (1954)- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham - Alastair Sim, superb here as the titular inspector, bears down on a smug upper crust family whose closely–guarded secrets are exposed to…
Caine Mutiny, The (1954)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Humphrey Bogart - Solid action with unstable Ship's Captain Humphrey Bogart contending with mutinies and typhoons.
Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly - An ageing tennis champion arranges the death of his wife for her inheritance. Hitch adapts the chilling stageplay, obviously well at home with the…
Good Die Young, The (1954)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Sir Stanley Baker, Joan Collins… - Fiery British heist–noir with a debt–burdened Laurence Harvey leading a motley crew of down–on–their–luck military men…
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