Archive for Film-Noir

The Stranger (1946)

Director : Orson Welles

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Genre : Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Edward G. Robinson as Mr. Wilson , Loretta Young as Mary Longstreet , Orson Welles as Professor Charles Rankin , Philip Merivale as Judge Adam Longstreet , Richard Long as Noah Longstreet , Konstantin Shayne as Konrad Meinike , Byron Keith as Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence , Billy House as Mr. Potter , Martha Wentworth as Sara

Plot : An investigator cherish the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to think of an infamous Nazi.

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Director : Tay Garnett

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Genre : Drama, Film-Noir, Crime, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Lana Turner as Cora Smith , John Garfield as Frank Chambers , Cecil Kellaway as Nick Smith , Hume Cronyn as Arthur Keats , Leon Ames as Kyle Sackett , Audrey Totter as Madge Gorland , Alan Reed as Ezra Liam Kennedy , Jeff York as Blair

Plot : A marital grown person plus a drifter come apart love, at that time plan to murder her husband… other than also just only occasion the deed is done, they must live also the consequences of their actions.

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Director : Fritz Lang

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Genre : Crime, Film-Noir, Drama

Cast : : , Dana Andrews as Tom Garrett , Joan Fontaine as Susan Spencer , Sidney Blackmer as Austin Spencer , Arthur Franz as Bob Hale , Philip Bourneuf as Roy Thompson , Edward Binns as Lt. Kennedy , Shepperd Strudwick as Jonathan Wilson , Robin Raymond as Terry Larue , Barbara Nichols as Dolly Moore , William F. Leicester as Charlie Miller (as William Leicester) , Dan Seymour as Greco , Rusty Lane as Judge , Joyce Taylor as Joan Williams , Carleton Young as Allan Kirk , Trudy Wroe as Hatcheck girl

Plot : Writer styles himself unsleeping to get murder rap to get here the errors of spontanepous evidence. With a friend… more |

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Cause for Alarm (1951)

Director : Tay Garnett

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Genre : Drama, Film-Noir

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Loretta Young as Ellen Jones , Barry Sullivan as George Z. Jones , Bruce Cowling as Dr. Ranney Grahame , Margalo Gillmore as Mrs. Edwards , Brad Morrow as Hoppy – Billy (as Bradley Mora) , Irving Bacon as Mr. Carston – Postman , Georgia Backus as Mrs. Warren , Don Haggerty as Mr. Russell , Art Baker as Superintendent , Richard Anderson as Lonesome Sailor

Plot : Invalid George Jones is both physically along with psychologically ill. He mistakenly believes his better half Ellen and… more |

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Suspicion (1941)

Director : Alfred Hitchcock

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Genre : Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Cary Grant as Johnnie , Joan Fontaine as Lina , Cedric Hardwicke as General McLaidlaw (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke) , Nigel Bruce as Beaky , Dame May Whitty as Mrs. McLaidlaw , Isabel Jeans as Mrs. Newsham , Heather Angel as Ethel – Maid , Auriol Lee as Isobel Sedbusk , Reginald Sheffield as Reggie Wetherby , Leo G. Carroll as Captain Melbeck

Plot : A shy juvenile English lady marries a adorable gentleman, at that time begins to sense him of striving to destroy her.

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The Wrong Man (1956)

Director : Alfred Hitchcock

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Genre : Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Cast : : , Henry Fonda as Christopher Emanuel ‘Manny’ Balestrero , Vera Miles as Rose Balestrero , Anthony Quayle as Frank D. O’Connor , Harold J. Stone as Detective Lt. Bowers , Charles Cooper as Detective Matthews , John Heldabrand as Tomasini , Esther Minciotti as Mama Balestrero , Doreen Lang as Ann James , Laurinda Barrett as Constance Willis , Norma Connolly as Betty Todd , Nehemiah Persoff as Eugene ‘Gene’ Conforti , Lola D’Annunzio as Olga Conforti, Manny’s Sister , Kippy Campbell as Robert Balestrero , Robert Essen as Gregory Balestrero , Richard Robbins as Daniel, the guilty man

Plot : True account of an harmless lady wrong as a criminal.

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Dark Passage (1947)

Director : Delmer Daves

Release Date : 27 September 1947 (USA)

Genre : Film-Noir, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Humphrey Bogart as Vincent Parry , Lauren Bacall as Irene Jansen , Bruce Bennett as Bob , Agnes Moorehead as Madge Rapf , Tom D’Andrea as Cabby (Sam) , Clifton Young as Baker , Douglas Kennedy as Detective , Rory Mallinson as George Fellsinger , Houseley Stevenson as Dr. Walter Coley

Plot : Bogart plays a grown-up convicted of murdering his lady who escapes cherish penitentiary inside apply to manifest his innocence… more |

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The Chase (1946)

Director : Arthur Ripley

Release Date : 16 November 1946 (USA)

Genre : Film-Noir

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott, Michèle Morgan as Lorna Roman, Steve Cochran as Eddie Roman, Lloyd Corrigan as Emmerrich Johnson, Jack Holt as Cmdr. Davidson, Don Wilson as Fats, Alex Minotis as Lt. Acosta, Nina Koshetz as Madame Chin, Yolanda Lacca as Midnight, James Westerfield as Job the butler, Jimmy Ames as The Killer, Shirley O’Hara as Manicurist, Peter Lorre as Gino

Plot : Chuck Scott gets a business because chauffeur to hard gentleman Eddie Roman; excluding Chuck’s betrothal along furthermore Eddie’s scared mate becomes a nightmare.

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Director : Edward Dmytryk

Release Date : 9 December 1944 (USA)

Genre : Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe, Claire Trevor as Mrs.Helen Grayle, Anne Shirley as Ann Grayle, Otto Kruger as Jules Amthor, Mike Mazurki as Moose Malloy, Miles Mander as Mr. Grayle, Douglas Walton as Lindsay Marriott, Donald Douglas as Police Lieutenant Randall (as Don Douglas), Ralf Harolde as Dr. Sonderborg, Esther Howard as Jessie Florian

Plot : This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler innovative ‘Farewell, My Lovely’, renamed since the American market… more |

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This Gun for Hire (1942)

Director : Frank Tuttle

Release Date : 13 May 1942 (USA)

Genre : Film-Noir, Crime, Thriller

Cast : Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, Robert Preston as Det. Michael Crane, Laird Cregar as Willard Gates, Alan Ladd as Philip Raven, Tully Marshall as Alvin Brewster, Marc Lawrence as Tommy, Olin Howland as Blair Fletcher (as Olin Howlin), Roger Imhof as Senator Burnett, Pamela Blake as Annie, Frank Ferguson as Albert Baker, Victor Kilian as Drew, Patricia Farr as Ruby, Harry Shannon as Steve Finnerty, Charles C. Wilson as Police Captain, Mikhail Rasumny as Slukey

Plot : Hit woman Philip Raven, who’s compartment to adolescents with cats, kills a blackmailer with is settled off by recreant Willard Gates inside “hot” money… more |

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