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Tag: Film-Noir

Wake of the Red Witch (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

This unusually classy Republic Pictures production, adapted from a book by Garland Roark, is loaded with all the gaudy...

House of Bamboo (1955) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Sam Fuller only contributed additional dialogue to the script for this, a film noir set in a deceptively technicolor,...

Dark Waters (1944) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Dark Waters sports one of the most arresting openings in cinema history. The familiar exposition trick of newspaper headline...

Outrage (1950) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A cup of coffee comes sliding along a lunch counter, taken up by a patron who tastes the drink...

The Big Night (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Joseph Losey’s The Big Night could well stand alongside Nicholas Ray’s Knock on Any Door and They Live...

The Third Man (1949) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

The Third Man (1949) IMDB Rating: 8.4 Storyline: An out-of-work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post...

Double Indemnity (1944) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Double Indemnity (1944) IMDB Rating: 8.5 Storyline: In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman for the Pacific All Risk Insurance...

The Tall Target (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

One of Anthony Mann’s best films and a prototypical modern thriller, The Tall Target is a near-perfect exemplar of...

Algiers (1938) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Hollywood remakes of popular foreign films don’t have much of a reputation these days; in fact, they’re...

Call Northside 777 (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Henry Hathaway’s follow-up to his neo-realist pulp piece Kiss of Death is somewhat superior, a key work of the...

Kiss of Death (1947) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

True story recounted in Adrian Boot and Michael Thomas’ photo-book “Babylon on a Thin Wire”: Kiss of Death was...

Crime Wave (1954) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Impressively gritty, detailed, but to-the-point Andre de Toth thriller utilises a magnificently seamy Sterling Hayden, as Detective-Lieutenant Sims, a...