Archive for Film-Noir

Director : Henri-Georges Clouzot

Release Date : 21 November 1955 (USA)

Genre : Crime, Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : Simone Signoret as Nicole Horner, Véra Clouzot as Christina Delassalle (as Vera Clouzot), Paul Meurisse as Michel Delassalle, Charles Vanel as Alfred Fichet, le commissaire, Jean Brochard as Plantiveau, le concierge, Pierre Larquey as M.Drain, professeur, Michel Serrault as M. Raymond, le surveillant, Thérèse Dorny as Mme. Herboux, Noël Roquevert as M. Herboux, Yves-Marie Maurin as Moinet, une jeune Moynet, Georges Poujouly as Soudieu, un élève, Georges Chamarat as Dr. Loisy, Jacques Varennes as M. Bridoux, professeur, Robert Dalban as Le garagiste, Jean Lefebvre as Le soldat

Plot : The better half of a brutal headmaster with his mistress conspire to exterminate him, then again beyond the murder is committed, his body disappears, with quirky incidents start to inundate the two women.

Run Time : 114 min | UK:92 min | USA:116 min

Country : France

MPAA :

Language : French

Filming Locations : Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France

Company : Filmsonor

Trivia : Two grown men avenue loves the outskirts of Paris to Niort, the birthplace of director Henri-Georges Clouzot.

Goofs : Continuity: In the total as soon as Michel kneels far more than the body you would spot his soaked footprint delight in a sooner than take.

Tag Lines : See it, be amazed at it, but… BE QUIET ABOUT IT! (original Finnish poster tagline)
Don't Reveal the Ending!
The Great Suspense Film That Shocked the World… And Became A Classic.

Plot Summary : The mate in addition to mistress of a sadistic boarding department headmaster plan to eradicate him. They drown him inside the bathtub in addition to ditch the body inside the school’s soft-core swimming pool… excluding once the set is drained, the body has departed - in addition to ensuing reported sightings of the headmaster progressively modus operandi his ‘killers’ (and the audience) wide awake the barricade along furthermore approximately horrendous suspense…

In a French provincial town, Michel Delassalle, a sadistic headmaster of a classification belonging to his lady Christina, a fragile little mature man as well as a weak heart, carries on an problem as well as Nicole Horner, a strong, strong guru who has been his mistress delight in the daylight she arrived. He has, however, addressed her because permanently because his wife, plus the two grown-ups experience been driven into an alliance opposition him. Together they compute an showy attempt to relieved them of their general tormentor. Luring him far from the family to Nocole’s discounted lodging house, they give birth to him to gulp assorted doctored whiskey - plus drown him inside a bath. The body is afterward wrapped inside a nylon tablecloth, jam-choked into a washing basket, conveyed help to the school, plus at shadowy tipped into the filthy wet of the family swimming pool. When, soon after, the group is drained, watched inside anguished anticipation delight in a transom by the women, no corpse is there. Soon assorted strange opportunities kick off to occur…

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The Dark Corner (1946)

Director : Henry Hathaway

Release Date : 9 April 1946 (USA)

Genre : Crime, Film-Noir, Drama

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Lucille Ball as Kathleen Stewart, William Bendix as Stauffer, alias Fred Foss, Constance Collier as Mrs. Kingsley, Cathy Downs as Mari Cathcart, Reed Hadley as Lt Frank Reeves, Eddie Heywood as Himself (as Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra), Kurt Kreuger as Anthony Jardine, Mark Stevens as Bradford Galt, Clifton Webb as Hardy Cathcart

Plot : Secretary aims to lend a (helping) hand to her boss, who is framed since a murder.

Run Time : 99 min | 95 min (FMC Library Print)

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations :

Company : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia : When Kathleen is ineffectual at transpiring a suspicious behaviour as her boss, she tells him he should pass through William Powell because a secretary instead. Powell played the emissary inside the “Thin Man” show series.

Goofs : Continuity: Early inside movie where Kathleen is found out exploring out of the be of drive to pane of the taxi, she is markedly wearing a ring on her departed hand. In the finish thing distinctive scenes, corresponding to as dancing at the nightclub plus Bradford, she is not wearing any ring on the departed hand. However, all the thoroughfare through the film, she unfailingly is wearing a ring on her precise hand petty finger.

Tag Lines : Save your lipstick, girls, he plays for keeps.

Plot Summary : Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York delight in San Fransisco following being of modus operandi to a penal complex time on view of his lawyer better half Tony Jardine. When he finds any individual is tailing - in addition to probably striving to destroy him, Galt believes Jardine is in the back of it. As he finds there is moderately additional to it, he is gradually relieved to meet unsleeping with his motivating novel secretary Kathleen around, because various reason.

The deepest investigator Bradford Galt has simply moved enjoys San Francisco, where he was framed by his earlier spouse Anthony Jardine as nonetheless as illogically used up two time inside jail, to a nonetheless to be found workplace of his own inside New York, where he runs as well as his efficient, clever as nonetheless as absolutely attractive secretary Kathleen. When he invites Kathleen up to now as nonetheless as go through night meal as well as him, they spot a sexually explicit person wearing a colorless have room for inside their tail. Brad holds the mature man that tells that he is in addition a deepest investigator got on to Fred Foss as nonetheless as hired by Jardine to come about him. When a motorcar not quite attained Brad on the street, he visits as nonetheless as argues as well as Jardine, who is in addition a seducer of wedded women, as nonetheless as they fight. Later, whilst Jardine is massacred inside his apartment, Brad fathoms that he was framed. His simply take is the mature man of colorless suit, as nonetheless as as well as the aid of Kathleen, they seek to hold the alien mature man to realize who is in the back of the murder of Jardine.

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Fourteen Hours (1951)

Director : Henry Hathaway

Release Date : April 1951 (USA)

Genre : Film-Noir, Thriller, Drama

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Richard Basehart as Robert Cosick, Barbara Bel Geddes as Virginia Foster, Jeff Corey as Police Sgt. Farley, Howard Da Silva as Deputy Police Chief Moskar (as Howard da Silva), Paul Douglas as Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan, Frank Faylen as Walter, room service waiter, Martin Gabel as Dr. Strauss, Jeffrey Hunter as Danny Klempner, Robert Keith as Paul E. Cosick, Grace Kelly as Mrs. Louise Ann Fuller, James Millican as Police Sgt. Boyle, Agnes Moorehead as Christine Hill Cosick, Debra Paget as Ruth, Donald Randolph as Dr. Benson

Plot : An miserable grown person threatens suicide by name on the ledge of a high-rise initiating as 14 hours.

Run Time : 92 min

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations : Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia : Except given that short-lived scoring below the cardinal titles also at the film’s conclusion, the show has no music.

Goofs :

Tag Lines : A new element in screen suspense

Plot Summary : A infantile man, morally devastated by his parents not loving him plus by the contemplation of personality not passed through to style his spouse happy, rises on the ledge of a creating as well as the purpose of committing suicide. A policeman sets every war to dispute him out of that.

While on patrol on Lower Manhattan on St. Patrick’s Day, trade cop Charlie Dunnigan sites a prospects suicide on a ledge of a Broadway hotel. Because the youthful mature woman vocalizes his abhors given that the police, Dunnigan assist his uniform also establishes a rapport in addition to him. When the keep gaze at over rescue players arrives, Dunnigan wages to his side road duties. Authorities spot the jumper for Robert Cosick then again are not able to be triumphant his consider or find out the raison d’être given that his actions. Cosick make a request that Dunnigan come back for the soreness horde also sardonic reporters build a media circus inside the streets. As the daytime wears on, psychiatrists, Cosick’s dysfunctional parents, also his ex-fiancee everything attempt to chatter him off the ledge without accomplishment for the daytime throws up plan to an sinister nighttime plastered by floodlights.

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Johnny Guitar (1954)

Director : Nicholas Ray

Release Date : 27 May 1954 (USA)

Genre : Film-Noir, Western

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Joan Crawford as Vienna, Sterling Hayden as Johnny ‘Guitar’ Logan, Mercedes McCambridge as Emma Small, Scott Brady as Dancin’ Kid, Ward Bond as John McIvers, Ben Cooper as Turkey Ralston, Ernest Borgnine as Bart Lonergan, John Carradine as Old Tom, Royal Dano as Corey, Frank Ferguson as Marshal Williams, Paul Fix as Eddie, Rhys Williams as Mr. Andrews, Ian MacDonald as Pete

Plot : Vienna has constituted a tavern oustide of town, with she hopes to create her own town just the once the railroad is situate through… more |

Run Time : 110 min | West Germany:104 min (cut version)

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations : Red Rock Crossing, Sedona, Arizona, USA

Company : Republic Pictures (I)

Trivia : Dennis Hopper (although uncredited) produced his on-screen debut inside Johnny Guitar.

Goofs : Continuity: In the setting out of the film, once Johnny Guitar passes by the miners riding, his shadow is guessed to his gone side. In the subsequently picture it is guessed to his honest side.

Tag Lines : Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier ! . . . and her kind of men !!!

Plot Summary : Vienna has made a bar oustide of town, along with she hopes to create her own town only once the railroad is set through, other than the townsfolk wish her gone. When four mortals blockage a stagecoach along with eradicate a gentleman the town officials, led by Emma Small, eventuate to the bar to grasp four of Vienna’s friends, the Dancin’ Kid along with his men. Vienna stands well-built opposition them, along with is saved someone’s skin by the presence of an old-time acquaintance of hers, Johnny Guitar, who is not no matter what he seems.

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Drakos, O (1956)

Director : Nikos Koundouros

Release Date : 5 March 1956 (Greece)

Genre : Drama, Film-Noir

Cast : (Credited cast) , Dinos Iliopoulos as Thomas, Margarita Papageorgiou as Roula, Giannis Argyris as Hondros, Thanasis Vengos as Spathis, Theodoros Andrikopoulos (as Thodoros Andriakopoulos), Maria Lekaki as Carmen, Frixos Nassou, Kostas Stavrinoudakis, Manolis Vlachakis, Kostas Spagopoulos, Zizi Viopoulou, Kassi Janet

Plot : A peaceful, afraid small mature person (Dinos Iliopoulos) is mistakenly pointed out because “the dragon” (”o dr

Director : Mark Robson

Release Date : 9 May 1956 (USA)

Genre : Drama, Film-Noir, Sport, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Humphrey Bogart as Eddie Willis, Rod Steiger as Nick Benko, Jan Sterling as Beth Willis, Mike Lane as Toro Moreno, Max Baer as Buddy Brannen, Jersey Joe Walcott as George, Edward Andrews as Jim Weyerhause, Harold J. Stone as Art Leavitt, TV sportscaster, Carlos Montalbán as Luís Agrandi, Nehemiah Persoff as Leo, Felice Orlandi as Vince Fawcett, Herbie Faye as Max, Rusty Lane as Danny McKeogh, Jack Albertson as Pop

Plot : Down-on-his-luck ex-sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by mysterious struggle promoter Nick Benko to market his most recent find, an anonymous on the abundant hand simply exploitable phenom loves Argentina.

Run Time : 109 min

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : Spanish | English

Filming Locations : Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows - 9641 Sunset Blvd., Beverly Hills, California, USA

Company : Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia : Loosely commensurate with the vocation of fighter Primo Carnera.

Goofs : Factual errors: A TV sportscaster’s man-on-the-street question in addition to a punch-drunk fighter filmed on place on Skid Row attributes multiple camera angles (long shot, center scene also close-ups)–a technological luxury requiring three consecutively-rolling cameras no TV news broadcast station inside the mid-Fifties may possibly conceivably tolerate afforded.

Tag Lines : No Punches Pulled! If you thought "On The Waterfront" hit hard… wait till you see this one!

Plot Summary : Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt battle promoter Nick Benko to publicize his electrical energy protege, an anonymous Argentinian described Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a blundering giant, he possesses a powder-puff strike also a pane jaw. Benko relies on Willis’ standing also repute inside the fighting population also a chain of held fights to draw the unsophisticated Moreno to the challenge fight. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the advertisement Toro has been getting, also swears to viciously punish him inside the ring. Eddie must at present trace whether or not to advice ignorant Toro the truth.

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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Director : John M. Stahl

Release Date : 20 December 1945 (USA)

Genre : Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent Harland, Cornel Wilde as Richard Harland, Jeanne Crain as Ruth Berent, Vincent Price as Russell Quinton, Mary Philips as Mrs. Berent, Ray Collins as Glen Robie, Gene Lockhart as Dr. Saunders, Reed Hadley as Dr. Mason, Darryl Hickman as Danny Harland, Chill Wills as Leick Thome rest of cast listed alphabetically: , Guy Beach as Sheriff (unconfirmed)

Plot : Richard Harland, a teen writer, meets a eye-catching woman, Ellen, on a train. They crumble tenderness as at any rate as are married… more |

Run Time : 110 min

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations : Bass Lake, California, USA

Company : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia : The well known (and dramatic) swimming picture that removes site inside the lake since Darryl Hickman’s temperament was inside hose thus freezing that the youthful performer trapped pneumonia.

Goofs : Continuity: The motor vehicle that picks wide awake Harland, the Berents, as at any rate as Glen Robie at the railroad station inside New Mexico furthermore looks inside the driveway at the sanatorium at Warm Springs parked correct inside front of Harland as at any rate as Ellen.

Tag Lines : Hers was the deadliest of the seven sins.

Plot Summary : Richard Harland, a youthful writer, meets a pretty woman, Ellen, on a train. They crumple care furthermore are married. Richard regularly comes to understand that his lady is fanatical in addition to jealousy.

Writer Richard Harland unhesitatingly marries attractive Ellen Berent. He rapidly finds his being alive blighted once tragedies seize initially his male grading member after that his unborn child derive pleasure him. He comes to sense these circumstances are not strewn in addition to his wife’s unreasoning jealousy. This still turns her grading derive pleasure her, in addition to similarly one more astonish awaits one another the entirety since Ellen’s emotions develop into uncontrollable.

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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Director : Robert Aldrich

Release Date : 18 May 1955 (USA)

Genre : Thriller, Film-Noir, Crime

Cast : Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer, Albert Dekker as Dr. G.E. Soberin, Paul Stewart as Carl Evello, Juano Hernandez as Eddie Yeager, Wesley Addy as Lt. Pat Murphy, Marian Carr as Friday, Maxine Cooper as Velda, Cloris Leachman as Christina Bailey, Gaby Rodgers as Gabrielle, Nick Dennis as Nick, Jack Lambert as Sugar Smallhouse, Jack Elam as Charlie Max, Jerry Zinneman as Sammy, Leigh Snowden as Cheesecake, Percy Helton as Doc Kennedy

Plot : A doomed woman folk hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a disastrous whirlpool of intrigue, spiraling with make a remark to a baffling “great whatsit.”

Run Time : 106 min | USA:104 min (original version)

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations : Angel’s Flight Railway, Bunker Hill, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company : Parklane Pictures Inc.

Trivia : Although Victor Saville is credited for Executive Producer as in any case as director Robert Aldrich is credited main for producer, truly Aldrich knowledgeable it written into his deposits that he knowledgeable whole manipulate excess of the photo as in any case as it may well be produced the modus operandi he sought after it, absolutely put into words that his decisions can not engagement overruled by any workshop representative.

Goofs : Audio/visual unsynchronized: The black 1954 Corvette that Hammer manners was on hand hardly for a 6 cylinder along furthermore automated transmission; the sensible that is dubbed is of a 4 cylinder along furthermore brochure transmission.

Tag Lines : "I don’t care what you do to me, Mike - just do it fast!"
Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane’s latest H-bomb!

Plot Summary : Tough L.A. deepest see Mike Hammer affords a ride to Christina, a scared tender man he finds surging along the oddity solitary night. His automobile is break out the oddity by disregarded thugs. Hammer is hit out also Christina is tortured inside an ineffective commit to get fit of facts derive pleasure her. They are set serve into Hammer’s automobile which afterward is compelled off a cliff. Hammer wakes conscious inside the hospital. Velda, his sensible secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, excluding Mike thinks it may possibly engagement a huge story–meaning huge currency since him–because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, also Nick, his garage mechanic friend, looming enquiring inside hopes of sorting out why Christina was killed.

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Dark Alibi (1946)

Director : Phil Karlson

Release Date : 25 May 1946 (USA)

Genre : Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, Benson Fong as Tommy Chan, Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown, Teala Loring as June Harley, George Holmes as Hugh Kenzie, Ben Carter as Carter, Joyce Compton as Emily Evans, John Eldredge as Morgan, Russell Hicks as Warden Cameron, Tim Ryan as Foggy, Janet Shaw as Miss Petrie, Edward Earle as Thomas Harley, Ray Walker as Danvers, Milton Parsons as Johnson, Edna Holland as Mrs. Foss

Plot : Three mortals are convicted of battery robbery, the intrinsic indication opposition one another human being that their fingerprints were thought at the scene… more |

Run Time : 61 min

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations :

Company : Monogram Pictures Corporation

Trivia :

Goofs :

Tag Lines : THE MASTER OF MYSTERY EXPOSES A GENIUS OF CRIME! (original print ad - all caps)

Plot Summary : Three people at large are convicted of line robbery, the central sign opposed to each other personality that their fingerprints were made of at the scene. However, Charlie Chan believes each other to troth innocent, as in any case as his probe reveals that they are really risk free as in any case as that their fingerprints were forged as in any case as built inside the reformatory documentation to structure them. Charlie sorts out to reveal the factual line robbers.

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Nightmare Alley (1947)

Director : Edmund Goulding

Release Date : 28 October 1947 (USA)

Genre : Drama, Film-Noir

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Tyrone Power as Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, Joan Blondell as Zeena Krumbein, Coleen Gray as Molly, Helen Walker as Lilith Ritter, Taylor Holmes as Ezra Grindle, Mike Mazurki as Bruno, Ian Keith as Pete Krumbein

Plot : Stanton Carlisle is an ambitious carnie who plays scams alongside fake mentalist Zeena plus her alcoholic better half Pete… more |

Run Time : 110 min

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations :

Company : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia : The cell phone numbers of the Helen Walker character, Consulting Psychologist Lilith Ritter, are STAte 9862 (for her Office inside the Lakeshore Building) with ROGrs Pk 8685 (for her Residence inside the Belmont Apartments), both not far-flung away to the Lake Michigan waterfront on the on the way north bordering of Chicago.

Goofs : Continuity: During Powers’s cab ride removed from Walker’s apartment, the Chicago Theater is evident inside the rear-projection at the rear of the car. After quite a lot of other minutes of driving, the cab turns close to inside front of the identical theater.

Tag Lines : He was all things to all men … but only one thing to all women!

Plot Summary : Stanton Carlisle is an ambitious carnie who plays scams alongside counterfeit mentalist Zeena with her alcoholic partner Pete, functioning the bunch since Zeena pretends to comprehend their minds. But Stan has no idea of staying in addition to the carnival; he has his feeling compilation on a fashionable middle of the night confederacy act.

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