Archive for the 'Film-Noir' Category

28AugThe Third Man


Category: Film-Noir
All Genres: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 1949
Country: UK
Runtime: 104
Rating: 6.4 (0)
Languages: English, German, Russian
Director: Carol Reed
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

  • Carol Reeds Classic Thriller
  • Youve never met anyone like him! (from reissue print ad)
  • Hell have you in a dither with his zither! (from reissue print)
  • Hunted by men…Sought by WOMEN!
  • HUNTED…By a thousand men! Haunted…By a lovely girl!

  • Writing by: Graham Greene - (story) and
    Alexander Korda - (story) uncredited
    Graham Greene - (screenplay)
    Carol Reed - uncredited and
    Orson Welles - uncredited

    Produced by: Hugh Perceval - associate producer
    Carol Reed - producer
    Alexander Korda - producer (uncredited)
    David O. Selznick - producer (uncredited)

    Cast: Joseph Cotten - Holly Martins
    Alida Valli - Anna Schmidt (as Valli)
    Orson Welles - Harry Lime
    Trevor Howard - Major Calloway
    Bernard Lee - Sergeant Paine
    Paul Hörbiger - Harrys Porter (as Paul Hoerbiger)
    Ernst Deutsch - Baron Kurtz
    Siegfried Breuer - Popescu
    Erich Ponto - Dr. Winkel
    Wilfrid Hyde-White - Crabbin
    Hedwig Bleibtreu - Annas Old Landlady

    Music: Anton Karas



    28AugDark Passage


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller
    Release Year: 1947
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 106
    Rating: 7.1 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Delmer Daves
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • Two Of A Kind ! Tough . . . Torrid . . . Terrific !
  • IN DANGER AS VIOLENT AS THEIR LOVE!!! (one-sheet poster)
  • TOGETHER AGAIN! (original one-sheet poster)

  • Writing by: Delmer Daves - (screenplay)
    David Goodis - (novel "Dark Passage")

    Produced by: Jerry Wald - producer
    Jack L. Warner - executive producer

    Cast: Humphrey Bogart - Vincent Parry
    Lauren Bacall - Irene Jansen
    Bruce Bennett - Bob
    Agnes Moorehead - Madge Rapf
    Tom DAndrea - Cabby (Sam)
    Clifton Young - Baker
    Douglas Kennedy - Detective
    Rory Mallinson - George Fellsinger
    Houseley Stevenson - Dr. Walter Coley
    John Alvin - Blackie (uncredited)
    John Arledge - Lonely man (uncredited)

    Music: Franz Waxman Max Steiner



    28AugSuspicion


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
    Release Year: 1941
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 99
    Rating: 5.3 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • Love in his Heart . . . Tragedy in his Mind ! The stars of "Penny Serenade" and "Rebecca" in this most thrilling mystery . . .
  • Each time they kissed… there was the thrill of love… the threat of murder!
  • Thrill to them together in the greatest emotional hit ever directed by that master of suspenseful drama — Alfred Hitchcock!
  • In his arms she felt safety…in his absence, haunting dread!
  • Cary Grant in his most powerful role as a wastrel husband intent on riches at any cost..Joan Fontaine in her first since "Rebecca", as the bride whose love turned to terror! Completely compelling mystery romance!
  • Alfred Hitchcock, who gave you "Foreign Correspondent" and "Rebecca", creates his most romantic mystery hit!

  • Writing by: Anthony Berkeley - (novel "Before the Fact") (as Francis Iles)
    Samson Raphaelson - (screenplay) &
    Joan Harrison - (screenplay) &
    Alma Reville - (screenplay)

    Produced by: Harry E. Edington - producer (uncredited)

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

    Music: Franz Waxman



    28AugJohnny Guitar


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Western
    Release Year: 1954
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 110
    Rating: 4.6 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Nicholas Ray
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier ! . . . and her kind of men !!!

  • Writing by: Roy Chanslor - (novel)
    Philip Yordan - (screenplay)
    Ben Maddow - uncredited
    Nicholas Ray - uncredited

    Produced by: Lawrence Bender - producer
    Federico González Compeán - executive producer
    Francisco González Compeán - executive producer
    Tery Lopez - co-producer
    Monica Lozano Serrano - executive producer
    Luis Mandoki - producer
    Miguel Necoechea - executive producer
    Anna Roth - executive producer
    Alejandro Soberón Kuri - producer
    Oscar Orlando Torres - co-producer

    Cast: Joan Crawford - Vienna
    Sterling Hayden - Johnny Guitar Logan
    Mercedes McCambridge - Emma Small
    Scott Brady - Dancin Kid
    Ward Bond - John McIvers
    Ben Cooper - Turkey Ralston
    Ernest Borgnine - Bart Lonergan
    John Carradine - Old Tom
    Royal Dano - Corey
    Frank Ferguson - Marshal Williams
    Paul Fix - Eddie

    Music: Victor Young



    28AugThe Desperate Hours


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Drama, Thriller
    Release Year: 1955
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 112
    Rating: 8.6 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: William Wyler
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • A reign of violence sweeps the screen

  • Writing by: Joseph Hayes - (novel)
    Joseph Hayes - (play)
    Joseph Hayes - (screenplay)

    Produced by: Robert Wyler - associate producer
    William Wyler - producer

    Cast: Humphrey Bogart - Glenn Griffin
    Fredric March - Dan C. Hilliard
    Arthur Kennedy - Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
    Martha Scott - Eleanor Ellie Hilliard
    Dewey Martin - Hal Griffin
    Gig Young - Chuck Wright
    Mary Murphy - Cindy Hilliard
    Richard Eyer - Ralphie Hilliard
    Robert Middleton - Sam Kobish
    Alan Reed - Detective
    Bert Freed - Tom Winston (deputy with Bard)

    Music: Gail Kubik



    28AugPickup on South Street


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller
    Release Year: 1953
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 80
    Rating: 4.7 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Samuel Fuller
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • How the law took a chance on a B-girl… and won!

  • Writing by: Samuel Fuller - (screenplay)
    Dwight Taylor - (story)

    Produced by: Jules Schermer - producer

    Cast: Richard Widmark - Skip McCoy
    Jean Peters - Candy
    Thelma Ritter - Moe
    Murvyn Vye - Captain Dan Tiger
    Richard Kiley - Joey
    Willis Bouchey - Zara (as Willis B. Bouchey)
    Milburn Stone - Winoki
    Parley Baer - Headquarters Communist in chair (uncredited)
    George Berkeley - (uncredited)
    Virginia Carroll - Nurse (uncredited)
    Harry Carter - Dietrich (uncredited)

    Music: Leigh Harline



    28AugThis Gun for Hire


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Crime, Thriller
    Release Year: 1942
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 80
    Rating: 4 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Frank Tuttle
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • Lover without a heart…killer without a conscience!
  • Hes dynamite with a gun or a girl.

  • Writing by: Graham Greene - (novel "A Gun for Sale")
    Albert Maltz - (writer) &
    W.R. Burnett - (writer)

    Produced by: Richard Blumenthal - associate producer

    Cast: Veronica Lake - Ellen Graham
    Robert Preston - Det. Michael Crane
    Laird Cregar - Willard Gates
    Alan Ladd - Philip Raven
    Tully Marshall - Alvin Brewster
    Marc Lawrence - Tommy
    Olin Howland - Blair Fletcher (as Olin Howlin)
    Roger Imhof - Senator Burnett
    Pamela Blake - Annie
    Frank Ferguson - Albert Baker
    Victor Kilian - Drew

    Music: David Buttolph



    28AugThe Woman in the Window


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller
    Release Year: 1944
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 99
    Rating: 4 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • It was the look in her eyes that made him think of murder.
  • The screens supreme adventure in suspense!

  • Writing by: Nunnally Johnson - writer
    J.H. Wallis - novel "Once Off Guard"

    Produced by: Nunnally Johnson - producer

    Cast: Edward G. Robinson - Professor Richard Wanley
    Joan Bennett - Alice Reed
    Raymond Massey - Dist. Atty. Frank Lalor
    Edmund Breon - Dr. Michael Barkstane
    Dan Duryea - Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
    Thomas E. Jackson - Inspector Jackson, Homicide Bureau
    Dorothy Peterson - Mrs. Wanley
    Arthur Loft - Claude Mazard / Frank Howard / Charlie the Hatcheck Man
    Frank Dawson - Collins, the Steward
    Iris Adrian - Streetwalker (uncredited)
    Brandon Beach - Man at club (uncredited)

    Music: Arthur Lange Hugo Friedhofer Bruno Mason Charles Maxwell



    28AugJourney Into Fear


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Drama, War
    Release Year: 1943
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 68
    Rating: 5.3 (0)
    Languages: English, Turkish, French, German
    Director: Norman FosterOrson Welles
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • Welles and Del Rio together! as Terror Man vs. Leopard Woman–for possession of a mysterious stranger in the powder-keg Middle East…a man with a military secret worth more than his love and his life!…Its menace melodrama thrilled with mighty mystery and suspense…SEE IT!

  • Writing by: Eric Ambler - (novel)
    Joseph Cotten - (screenplay)
    Richard Collins - uncredited
    Ben Hecht - uncredited
    Orson Welles - uncredited

    Produced by: Jack Moss - associate producer (uncredited)
    George Schaefer - executive producer (uncredited)
    Orson Welles - producer (uncredited)

    Cast: Joseph Cotten - Howard Graham
    Dolores del Rio - Josette Martel
    Ruth Warrick - Mrs. Stephanie Graham
    Agnes Moorehead - Mrs. Mathews
    Jack Durant - Gogo Martel
    Everett Sloane - Kopeikin
    Eustace Wyatt - Prof Haller - German archeologist
    Frank Readick - Matthews - Cockney socialist
    Edgar Barrier - Kuvetli - tobacco salesman
    Jack Moss - Peter Banat - obese gunman
    Stefan Schnabel - Translator for ships captain

    Music: Roy Webb Rex Dunn



    28AugBeyond the Forest


    Category: Film-Noir
    All Genres: Film-Noir, Drama, Thriller
    Release Year: 1949
    Country: USA
    Runtime: 97
    Rating: 7 (0)
    Languages: English
    Director: King Vidor
    Sound: Mono
    Taglines:

  • Nobodys as good as Bette when shes bad!
  • Shes a midnight gal in a nine oclock town.

  • Writing by: Lenore J. Coffee - writer
    Stuart Engstrand - novel

    Produced by: Henry Blanke - producer
    Jack L. Warner - executive producer

    Cast: Bette Davis - Rosa Moline
    Joseph Cotten - Doctor Louis Moline
    David Brian - Neil Latimer
    Ruth Roman - Carol
    Minor Watson - Moose
    Dona Drake - Jenny
    Regis Toomey - Sorren
    Sarah Selby - Mildred
    Joel Allen - Minister (uncredited)
    Gail Bonney - Woman (uncredited)
    Frances Charles - Miss Elliott (uncredited)

    Music: Max Steiner






     

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