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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