Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Gilda (1946)
- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready - Rita Hayworth defines the femme fatale for Hollywood in this sassy love–triangle musical set in Latin America. Glenn Ford and George Macready…
Leave Her to Heaven (1946)- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde - Beware the beautiful woman! Gene Tierney makes a gorgeous yet domesticated vamp whose suffocating personality mutates into murderous frustration.…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin… - Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
Detour (1945)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage - Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
Mildred Pierce (1945)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Joan Crawford - Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her career–defining role as a stoical housewife–turned–waitress who finds success in business, but…
Outlaw, The (1943)- Dir. Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell… - Off–beat retelling of the legend of Billy the Kid with Jane Russell's cleavage outraging the censors of the day. Now a tame curiosity.
Lydia (Illusions) (1941)- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotton, Alan Marshall… - Dreamy, melancholic melodrama follows the life and numerous loves of a society gal (Oberron) in New England over thirty odd years. Dir. Duvivier…
Destry Rides Again (1939)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Una Merkel - James Stewart is once again a mild–mannered law–man while Marlene Dietrich makes her most sensational Hollywood turn as exotic saloon…
Nancy Drew...Reporter (1939)- Dir. William Clemens
Feat. Bonita Granville - One of the very first screen adaptations of Edward Stratemeyer’s series of "Nancy Drew" mystery stories, Bonita Granville stars as the youthful…
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bette Davis, Errol Flynn - Bette Davis is perfectly cast as Queen Liz, opposite Errol Flynn. An enjoyable romp.
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