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Subgenre Sampler

 
Phantom LadyPhantom 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…
Hangmen Also DieHangmen 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…
Le CorbeauLe Corbeau (1943) Recommended
Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Pierre Fresnay
Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
Ox Bow Incident, TheOx Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943) Recommended
Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford. Although…
Power of the PressPower of the Press (1943)
Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger
Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…
Shadow of a DoubtShadow of a Doubt (1943) Recommended
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Teenager Teresa Wright is thrilled when relative Joseph Cotten comes to stay, then less so, gradually realising Uncle Charlie may be a psychopathic…
Day Will Dawn, TheDay Will Dawn, The (1942)
Dir. Harold French
Feat. Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr
Propaganda fuelled WW2 drama about a foreign journalist reporting on German U–Boats attacking Norwegian ships who finds himself up against the…
Glass Key, TheGlass 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 FearJourney 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…
Keeper of the FlameKeeper of the Flame (1942)
Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
Spencer Tracy plays a top–notch reporter who falls in love with the widow of the deceased national hero he's assigned to investigate. A tight…

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