& The Film Noir Heritage
	American Film Noir Titles: A B C D-E F G H I-J K L M N O P-Q R S T U-V W-Z British Film Noir Neo-Noir and Noir-Inspired Films TV Noir Documentaries about Film Noir Bibliography of books on film noir in the UC Berkeley library Web articles on Film Noir Film genre page (via Tim Dirks' Greatest Films web site) Information about specific noir works from the Internet Movie Database Noir links (via Google) Act of Violence(1948) Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter. Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be. Special features: Film historian commentaries by Dr. Drew Casper on 'Act of violence' and Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward on 'Mystery street;' new featurettes "Act of violence: dealing with the devil" and "Mystery street: murder at Harvard;" theatrical trailers. Issued with: Mystery street. 82 min. DVD 8416 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dixon, Wheeler W. " Act of Violence (1949) and the Early Films of Fred Zinnemann." In: The films of Fred Zinnemann : critical perspectives / edited by Arthur Nolletti, Jr. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999. (Main Stack PN1998.3.Z56.F56 1999) Angel Face (1950) Directed by Otto Preminger. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Leon Ames, Barbara O'Neil. When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur, but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out. 92 min. DVD 6848 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lippe, Richard. "At the margins of film noir : Preminger's Angel face." In: Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1996. (MAIN: PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996) Arson, Inc. (1949) Directed by William Berke. Cast: Robert Lowery, Anne Gwynne, Edward Brophy, Marcia Mae Jones, Douglas Fowley, Maude Eburne. A Bureau of Fire Investigation agent goes under cover to confront a ruthless arson ring that has left a trail of bodies and burned out buildings with various and sundry carnage! 63 min. DVD 8238 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Asphalt Jungle (1950) Directed by John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Marc Lawrence, Barry Kelley, Anthony Caruso, Teresa Celli, Marilyn Monroe. When criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is released from prison, he approaches lawyer Alonzo Emmerich with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history. Doc carefully selects and rehearses his team, but Emmerich is planning to double-cross the thieves and flee the country with the loot. 112 min. DVD 2717; vhs 999:1236 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database "Asphalt Jungle." Film Comment v. 16 (May/June 1980) p. 38-40 "Asphalt Jungle." The New Yorker v. 26 (June 17 1950) p. 54 "Asphalt Jungle." Newsweek v. 35 (June 12 1950) p. 88+ Telotte, J.P. "Fatal Capers. Strategy and Enigma in Film Noir." Journal of Popular Film and Television, XXIII/4, Winter 96; p.163-170. Thomson, David. "The 'Hood, the Bad and the Ugly." Sight and Sound, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 8, November 2006 John Huston bibliography Behind Locked Doors (1948) Directed by Oscar Boetticher. Cast: Richard Carlson, Lucille Bremer, Dickie Moore, Thomas Browne Henry, Tor Johnson, Douglas Fowley.Private dectective Ross Stewart checks himself into a mental hospital in an attempt to locate a corrupt judge hiding from justice. But before Stewart can reveal the truth, his true identity is discovered. With the help of a deranged ex-prizefighter the doctors at the sanitarium concoct a plan to make Stewart a permanent resident and the only person who can rescue him is the scheming woman who sent him there. Based on the story by Malvin Wald. 62 min. DVD 3826; vhs 999:2696 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Beware My Lovely (1952) Directed by Harry Horner. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting, James Williams, O.Z. Whitehead, Dee Pollack. A rambling mansion becomes the setting for blood-curdling terror in this 1950's thriller. Ida Lupino is a wealthy widow looking for a hired hand to help clean up her huge, badly neglected estate. But when she employes drifter Robert Ryan, he turns out to be dangerously insane, and she suddenly finds herself a hunted prisoner in her own home. 77 min. 999:3715 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Georgakas, Dan. "Ida Lupino: Doing It Her Way." Cineaste, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 32-36, 2000 UC users only The Big Clock (1948) Directed by John Farrow. Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester, Harold Vermilyea. A hotshot crime magazine editor inadvertently becomes the subject of a murder investigation after spending an evening with his boss' mistress. She ends up dead and he is being framed by the actual killer. As his competent staff scurries for clues the description they uncover of the murderer matches himself! 95 min. DVD 2745; vhs 999:1879 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Big Combo (1955) Directed by Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Richard Conte, Earl Holliman. Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a gangster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate. 88 min. DVD 684; VHS 999:2502 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Big Heat (1953) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin. A crime melodrama about an honest police sergeant who risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration. DVD 987; VHS 999:3 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Big Knife (1955) Directed by Robert Aldrich. Cast: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Ilka Chase, Everett Sloane, Shelley Winters. Charles Castle is a Hollywood actor whose career needs to rebound after several flops. When he sees his marriage and career crumbling before him, the last thing he needs is more headaches. And then along comes a blackmailer, who threatens to push Castle's sanity over the edge. 104 min. DVD 4938 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Aldrich, Robert. Robert Aldrich : interviews Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004. (GRDS: PN1998.3.A44 A5 2004) Arnold, Edwin T. The films and career of Robert Aldrich Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1986. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 A559271 1986; MOFF: PN1998.A3 A55927 1986) Georgakas, Dan. "Ida Lupino: Doing It Her Way." Cineaste, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 32-36, 2000 UC users only Ross, T. J. "Ambiguity as Subversion in the Films of Robert Aldrich." In: Ambiguities in literature and film : selected papers from the Seventh Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film / edited by Hans Braendlin. Gainesville, FL : University Presses of Florida ; Tallahassee : Florida State University Press, c1987. (Main Stack PN56.A55.F551 1987) Silver, Alain. Robert Aldrich : a guide to references and resources Boston : G. K. Hall, c1979 (MAIN: PN1998.A3A12 .S56; Storage Info: B 3 569 820) Williams, Tony. Body and soul : the cinematic vision of Robert Aldrich Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004. (MAIN: PN1998.3.A44 W55 2004) Big Sleep (1946) Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey. Detective Philip Marlowe is hired to find out who is blackmailing a wealthy young woman with pornographic pictures and becomes entangled with her sister. 114 min. DVD 174; VHS 999:10 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Big Steal (1949) Directed by Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro, Don Alvarado, John Qualen. Jane and Duke (alias Capt. Blake) accidently meet in Vera Cruz while chasing flim-flam man Fiske. Soon the local Inspector General (El Gato) is involved. Fiske races across Mexico, pursued by Jane and Duke, trailed by the real Capt. Blake. The crafty Inspector General is waiting for them in Tihuacan but they all give him the slip. Special features: Commentaries by Nina Foch and film historian Patricia King Hanson on 'Illegal' and film historian Richard B. Jewell on 'The big steal;' vintage "Behind the cameras" segment with Edward G. Robinson from the 'Warner Bros. presents' TV series; new featurettes: "Illegal: marked for life" and "The big steal: look behind you;" theatrical trailers. 72 min. DVD 8414 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Black Angel (1946) Directed by Roy William Neill. Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling, Wallace Ford. When a beautiful blackmailer is murdered, the wife of the accused murderer sets out to clear her husbnd's name in this film noir classic. Includes original theatrical trailer. Based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. 81 min. DVD 2742; vhs 999:973 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Phelps, Donald. "Cinema Gris: Woolrich/Neill's Black Angel." Film Comment, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 64-69, January 2000 Renzi, Thomas C. Cornell Woolrich: from pulp noir to film noir Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006. (MAIN: PS3515.O6455 Z85 2006) Blackboard Jungle (1955) Directed by Richard Brooks. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow. Film about life in an inner city high school in the 50's that was the first to utilize a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. A dedicated young teacher soon loses his idealism when he has to deal with the tensions that threaten to destroy his classroom. DVD 3821; vhs 999:973 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Blue Dahlia (1946) Directed by George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling. Johnny, a returning Navy veteran, finds his wife cheating on him. When she is killed with his gun, he tries to find the real killer. In the meantime Johnny meets Joyce, a woman discontented with her husband but interested in Johnny. Joyce helps Johnny look for the killer and sticks around for romance. 100 min. 999:2207 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Brewer, Gay. "Raymond Chandler without his knight: contracting worlds in 'The Blue Dahlia' and 'Playback.'" Literature-Film Quarterly v23, n4 (Oct, 1995):273 (6 pages). The Blue Gardenia (1953) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, Richard Erdman, George Reeves, Ruth Storey, Ray Walker, Nat 'King' Cole. Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets,informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her into such a notorious figure. 88 min. DVD 1433; vhs 999:3401 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Body and Soul (1947) Directed by Robert Rossen. Cast: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad, Joseph Pevney, Lloyd Goff, Canada Lee. Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a "fixed" fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves. 104 min. DVD 164 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Casty, Alan. "The Films of Robert Rossen." Film Quarterly Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter, 1966), pp. 3-12UC users only Grindon, Leger. "Body and Soul: The Structure of Meaning in the Boxing Film Genre." Cinema Journal Vol. 35, No. 4 (Summer, 1996), pp. 54-69 UC users only Border Incident (1949) Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss, Alfonso Bedoya. The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder. 95 min. DVD 5848 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Basinger, Jeanine. Anthony Mann Twayne Publishers, 1979 (MAIN: PN1998.A3 .M321143; MOFF: PN1998.A3 .M321143) Smith, Robert E. "Mann in the dark : the films noir of Anthony Mann." In: Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1996. (MAIN: PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996) Born to be Bad (1950) Directed by Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer. Using her charm and beauty like a scalpel, Christabel Caine skillfully removes whatever she needs from each man she seduces. Her web of deceit threatens to shatter, however, when both men discover her plans. Based on the novel "All kneeling" by Anne Parrish. 90 min. 999:3576 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nicholas Ray bibliography Born to Kill (1947) Directed by Robert Wise. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak. A suspense thriller dealing with two ruthless people who both want to win. A cold-hearted divorcee wants her step-sister's husband for herself, until she finds out the truth about him. A brutal killer on the run marries one woman to get her money, and discovers another is as ruthless as he. 83 min. DVD 4114 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Brute Force (1947) Directed by Jules Dassin. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne DeCarlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Anita Colby, Sam Levene, Howard Duff, Art Smith, Jeff Corey. Joe Collins of Cell R-17 in Westgate Penitentiary is planning a mass breakout. The warden, Capt. Munsey, gets wind of this plan and seeks to further his career by crushing it, meeting the break with machine guns as Collins and Munsey come face to face with each other. 102 min. DVD 404 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Call Northside 777 (1948) Directed by Henry Hathaway. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker. Acclaimed for its authenticity, realism and suspense, this documentary-style drama is the powerful true story of a newspaper reporter who corrects a miscarriage of justice. Assigned to investigate a murder case, he uncovers evidence indicating that the convicted man is innocent and then convinces the governor to hold a hearing. Based on articles by James P. McGuire. 111 min. DVD 7671; vhs 999:325 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lipkin, S. N. "Real emotional logic: persuasive strategies in docudrama." Cinema Journal v. 38 no. 4 (Summer 1999) p. 68-85 Rosenberg, Norman "Law Noir." In: Legal reelism: movies as legal texts Edited by John Denvir. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.L45 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.J8.L45 1996) Cape Fear (1962) Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Telly Savalas, Barrie Chase. An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail. 128 min. DVD 3820; vhs 999:2161 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cape Fear (1962) Directed by Martin Scorsese. SEE Neo-Noir Cat People (1942) Directed by Jacques Tourneu; produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway. The story of a tortured young woman whose lovers and rivals are stalked and done in by a leopard. DVD 4472; vhs 999:76 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Newman, Kim. Cat People London: British Film Institute, 1999. BFI film classics. (Main Stack PN1997.C365.N49 1999) Caught (1949) Directed by Max Ophuls. Cast: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan. Leonora Eames fulfills her life's dream when she marries a millionaire but she soon discovers that her husband is mentally unstable. She resents being used as his business hostess and leaves him. 999:120 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Champion(1949) Directed by Mark Robson. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy. Midge Kelly is a fun-loving former navy man whose life is made complex by his sudden rise to fame in professional boxing. He becomes popular after months of training and a series of fixed fights. But the champion falls from the top when he beats the prize fighter, Johnny Dunne, when he has been instructed by the syndicate to lose the fight. 100 min. DVD 165 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database City for Conquest(1940) Directed by Anatole Litvak. Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Jerome Cowan, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn, Lee Patrick. Ex-golden gloves fighter Danny Kenny turns pro to bankroll his brother's dream of writing a symphonic paean to New York City. Life changes quickly when he's blinded during a brutal 15-round welterweight title bout. 104 min. DVD 5836 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database City That Never Sleeps (1953) Directed by John H. Auer. Cast: Gig Young, Mala Powers, Edward Arnold, William Talman. Chicago police officer Johnny Kelly falls for a dancer, leaves his wife, and begins a new life by making a deal with a corrupt criminal lawyer. 999:1234 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Clash by Night (1952) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carroll Naish, Silvio Minciotti, Keith Andes. Bitter and lonely, big city girl Mae Doyle, returns home to the sleepy fishing village of her childhood where she meets and marries Jerry, a local fisherman. Mae attempts to settle into her marriage and motherhood, but old habits die hard. Soon boredom and frustration take over and Mae finds herself entangled in an affair with a man she knows is no good--her husband's best friend. 105 min. DVD 4117; vhs 999:2351 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Conflict (1945) Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake, Grant Mitchell, Pat O'Moore, Ann Shoemaker. When a man murders his wife because his affections have turned to her younger sister, it appears he has executed the perfect crime until a minor slip-up arouses the suspicions of a family friend who is a psychiatrist. 86 min. 999:620 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cornered (1945) Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Morris Carnovsky, Edgar Barrier. A Canadian airman vows to track down the Nazis who killed his beautiful French wife. Relentless in his pursuit, the suspense never lets up as the trail leads from France to Switzerland and finally to a violent climax in Buenos Aires. 102 min. 999:3568 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Crack-Up (1946) Directed by Irving Reis. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall. A respected art critic and historian believes that priceless works of art are being stolen, but everyone else thinks that he's insane. From beginning to end the suspense and action never let up in this fast-paced, thrilling mystery. 93 min. 999:3748 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Crime of Passion (1956) Directed by Gerk Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano. Kathy Ferguson is smart, witty, and an ace at her job as an advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper with her name on billboards all over town. But Kathy makes a big mistake, she falls in love and marries Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, and begins to realize that Bill wants nothing more than this domesticity for her, forever. Kathy's thwarted ambition turns ugly, and before long this capable career woman is capable of anything. 86 min. DVD 3484; VHS 999:2413 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Crime Wave (1954) Directed by Andre de Toth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk. Three San Quentin escapees kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, one of the escapees flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey. Steve is paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and can't afford to be caught associating with old cronies. But homicide detective Sims wants to use Steve to help him catch the other two escapees, who in turn extort his help in a bank job. Special features: Commentaries by James Ellroy and film historian Eddie Muller on 'Crime wave' and writer Stabley Rubin and film historian Glenn Erickson on 'Decoy;' new featurettes: "Crime wave: the city is dark" and "Decoy: a map to nowhere;" 'Crime wave' theatrical trailer. 74 min. DVD 8415 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Criss Cross (1948) Directed by Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo, Dan Duryea. An armored car driver secretly meets his ex-wife and then tries to convince her hoodlum husband that he met her only to get her husband's help in an upcoming robbery. DVD 2743; vhs 999:679 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak : a biography, with critical analyses of his films noirs and a filmography of all his works Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998. (MAIN: PN1998.3.S54 A46 1998) Koepnick, Lutz. "Doubling the Double: Robert Siodmak in Hollywood." New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, vol. 89, pp. 81-104, Spring 2003 Walker, Michael. "Robert Siodmak." In: The Book of film noir / edited by Ian Cameron. Place/Publisher New York : Continuum, c1993. (Moffitt PN1995.9.F54.B66 1993; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 M68 1992) The Crooked Way (1949) Directed by Robert Florey. Cast: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Percy Helton. John Payne plays a wounded WWII veteran who has lost his memory. As he heads to Los Angeles to try and figure out his identity, two police detectives arrest him. When he is framed for a murder he must find the real killer and clear his name by navigating through the crooked underbelly of Los Angeles. 86 min. DVD 4961 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Crossfire (1947) Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Robert Young, Gloria Grahame. A police captain methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier with a rabid hatred of Jews. DVD 4115; vhs 999:1027 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cry Danger (1950) Directed by Robert Parrish. Cast: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad, Richard Erdman, Jean Porter. Rocky Mulloy, a bookie who was framed, tried and sent to jail for a holdup and murder he didn't commit is surprisingly released from prison with the help of a phony alibi. Now his eyes are focused on sweet revenge and the $100,000 stolen payroll stashed five years ago. 80 min. 999:2359 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top The Damned Don't Cry (1950) Directed by Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Selena Royle. Ethel Whitehead moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion in high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one, a high-rolling racketeer, abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap, right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. 103 min. DVD 4048 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Dark Corner (1946) Directed by Henry Hathaway. Cast: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens. Lucille Ball has a change of pace role in this sizzling film noir where she plays the secretary of a private eye who is framed for the murder of his ex-partner. Based on a story by Leo Rosten. Special DVD features: Commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini ; theatrical trailer. 99 min. DVD 7670; vhs 999:2362 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dark Mirror (1946) Directed by Robert Siodmak. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell. A prying neighbor, a jilted paramour and a seasoned detective all point to a woman as a killer until her twin sister disappears. 999:180 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak : a biography, with critical analyses of his films noirs and a filmography of all his works Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998. (MAIN: PN1998.3.S54 A46 1998) Koepnick, Lutz. "Doubling the Double: Robert Siodmak in Hollywood." New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, vol. 89, pp. 81-104, Spring 2003 Walker, Michael. "Robert Siodmak." In: The Book of film noir / edited by Ian Cameron. Place/Publisher New York : Continuum, c1993. (Moffitt PN1995.9.F54.B66 1993; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 M68 1992) Dark Passage (1947) Directed by Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea. After successful plastic surgery on his face, a man wrongly convicted of murder hides out in an apartment in San Francisco. Tension builds in this tale of a fugitive hiding from the law as he feverishly works to prove his innocence. DVD 3485; VHS 999:1229 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dark Waters (1944) Directed by Andre de Toth. Cast: Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter. A psychological thriller about a nervous young heiress driven to attempt suicide by a fake aunt and uncle who want to collect her estate. Aided by the oppressive vegetation and stifling heat, the would-be killers methodically implement a series of terrifying ploys to suffocate the young girl in her own madness. 90 min. DVD 3796; vhs 999:3432 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Danks, Adrian. "Driftin': In Tribute to André de Toth." Senses of Cinema vol. 25, pp. (no pagination), March 2003 Silver, Alain. "André de Toth (1913-2002): An Interview." Senses of Cinema vol. 25, pp. (no pagination), March 2003 UC users only Dead Reckoning (1946) Directed by John Cromwell. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Kane, William Prince, Marvin Miller, Wallace Ford, James Bell. An ex-G.I. tries to find out who framed his pal for murder--and then rubbed him out! While tracking his war buddy's shadowy past, the G.I. becomes involved with the mysterious night club singer who had once been his pal's sweetheart. 105 min. DVD 3828; vhs 999:2275 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Decoy (1946) Directed by Jack Bernhard. Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Marjorie Woodwarth. Gangster Frank Olins is about to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby. Only Frank knows the location of $400,000. Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins' body from the prison immediately after he dies. She forces the prison doctor to administer an antidote for cyanide gas poisoning to Olins. The revived Olins gives Margot half of a map showing the money location and Vincent, in a fit of jealousy, kills Olins and takes the other half. Because the doctor's plates on his car will get them through the police roadblocks, Vincent and Margot take him with them on the money hunt. Special features: Commentaries by James Ellroy and film historian Eddie Muller on 'Crime wave' and writer Stabley Rubin and film historian Glenn Erickson on 'Decoy;' new featurettes: "Crime wave: the city is dark" and "Decoy: a map to nowhere;" 'Crime wave' theatrical trailer. 76 min. DVD 8415 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Desperate (1947) Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley. An innocent man is framed for the murder of a police officer, but his framers don't know how dangerous a desperate man can be. When he escapes, both the police and the mob are after him. 999:476 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Basinger, Jeanine. Anthony Mann Twayne Publishers, 1979 (MAIN: PN1998.A3 .M321143; MOFF: PN1998.A3 .M321143) Smith, Robert E. "Mann in the dark : the films noir of Anthony Mann." In: Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1996. (MAIN: PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996) Desperate Hours (1955) Directed by William Wyler. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott. Tells the harrowing story about an escaped convict who breaks into a suburban home and takes a family hostage. 112 min. DVD 3818 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database William Wyler bibliography Detour (1946) Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard, Pat Gleason. After his girlfriend Sue has left for the West Coast, Al Roberts decides to join her and starts a journey hitchhiking westwards. When he finds a driver who'd given him a lift dead, he decides to get rid of the body and take the man's identity, fearing he'd be accused of murder if he would go to the police. However, Vera, a hitchhiking girl Al picks up, sees through him and starts blackmailing him into going along with her schemes which get him deeper and deeper into trouble. [From the Internet Movie Database] DVD 391; DVD 2746; VHS 999:723 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database D.O.A. (1949) Directed by Rudolph Mate. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell, Neville Brand, Lynn Baggett, William Ching. When Frank Bigelow, a real-estate salesman, is slipped a dose of slow-acting poison he sets out in the few hours left to him to find his own murderer. 83 min. DVD 2746; DVD 178; VHS 999:1237 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Osteen, M. "The big secret: film noir and nuclear film." Journal of Popular Film and Television v. 22 (Summer 1994) p. 79-90 Renov, Michael. "D. O. A.: Five Aspects of Textuality." New Orleans Review, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 65-72, Fall 1982 Turner, George "'I Want to Report a Murder'." American Cinematographer, LXIX/8, Aug 88; p.35-40. (Production history and detailed plot description of the original version of "D.O.A.") Double Indemnity (1944) Directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson. An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death-- then push him from a train. It's an almost perfect crime. DVD 26; VHS 999:126 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Enforcer (1951) Director, Bretaigne Windust. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Roy Roberts, Everett Sloane. A hard-hitting D.A. is facing the hottest case of the year. Armed with a killer's confession, a score of missing persons and a mob undertaker working full-time, he knows he's onto something. Relentless and determined he tracks down a notorious murder for profit ring, headed by a killer named Mendoza. 87 min. DVD 2193 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Fallen Angel (1945) Directed by Otto Preminger. Cast: Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere. Eric Stanton, a press agent down on his luck, drifts into a small Californian coastal town. He meets June, a wealthy but reclusive woman, and has his eye on Stella, a sultry waitress. In love with Stella but broke, Eric marries June for her money, planning a rapid divorce. However when Stella is murdered, the story takes an unexpected turn. Non-US format (PAL) DVD. 98 min. DVD 3913 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Frischauer, Willi. Behind the scenes of Otto Preminger; an unauthorized biography New York, Morrow, 1974 [c1973] (MOFF: PN1998.A3 .P674 1973) Pratley, Gerald. The cinema of Otto Preminger London, A. Zwemmer; New York, A. S. Barnes [1971] (MAIN: PN1998.A3 P6831) Preminger, Otto. Preminger : an autobiography Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977. (MAIN: PN1998 A3.P6721 1977; PFA : PN1998.3.P74 P74 1977) FBI Girl (1951) Directed by William A. Berke. Cast: Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Raymond Burr, Tom Drake, Raymond Greenleaf. A state governor hires Raymond Burr to steal a file from the FBI that has fingerprint evidence proving he [the governor] previously was a wanted criminal. A clerk in the FBI office is killed, and agent Cesar Romero is hot on the case. 77 min. DVD 8249 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951) Directed by Sam Newfield. Cast: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal, Margia Dean, Lyle Talbot. The identity of the murderer of a town's mayor is decided by fingerprints on the weapon ... case closed. But is it? A reporter sets out to prove otherwise. Based on a story by Rupert Hughes. 56 min. DVD 8250 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Force of Evil (1948) Directed by Abraham Polonsky. Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Roy Roberts, Marie Windsor. A racketeer's lawyer finds that his boss has found a way to bankrupt New York's numbers banks but gets wedged between the numbers racket and a new prosecutor's anti-crime campaign. 82 min. DVD 3311; vhs 999:1859 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Brinckmann, Christine Noll. "The Politics of Force of Evil" An Analysis of Abraham Polansky's Preblacklist Film." Prospects 1981 6: 357-386. Humphries, Reynold. "When Crime Does Pay: Abraham Polonsky's Force of Evil (1948)." Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone. 11: 205-10. 2001 Oct. Pechter, William; Abraham Polonsky."Abraham Polonsky and "Force of Evil." Film Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 3, Special Issue on Hollywood (Spring, 1962), pp. 47-54 UC users only Tracey, Grant. "Force of Evil" (10 Shades of Noir) Images, issue 2. Fury (1936) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan. An ethical young man is forced to confront his own morality after he becomes a victim of vigilantism. DVD 3808; vhs 999:722 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top The Gambler and the Lady (1952) Directed by Patrick Jenkins. Cast: Dane Clark, Naomi Chance, Meredith Edwards, Thomas Gallagher, Eric Pohlmann, Anthony Forwood. A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, and neither is his past. 72 min. DVD 6021 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gilda (1946) Directed by Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George MacReady, Joseph Calleia. A South American casino owner hires a young American to be his right hand man. The owner's bride was at one time the American's lover. DVD 392; VHS 999:59 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Glass Key (1942) Directed by Stuart Heisler; Cast: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning, Joseph Calleia. Intricate mystery about a slightly corrupt politician, accused of murder, who solicits his right-hand man (Ladd) to hunt down the real killer. As he searches Ladd must endure a brutal beating from gangsters, the annoying hindrance of the police and the beguiling advances of his boss' fiancee. Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett. 85 min. 999:171 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery(1959) Directors, Charles Guggenheim, John Stix. Cast: Steve McQueen, David Clarke, Graham Denton, Molly McCarthy, James Dukas. Psychological drama based on true events that recounts the meticulous planning and thoroughly botched execution of a bank robbery. Actual St. Louis police officers play themselves in the same respective roles of the true story. 85 min. DVD 1151 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Guest in the House (1944) Directed by John Brahm. Cast: Ann Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Warrick, Marie McDonald, Aline MacMahon, Scott McKay, Jerome Cowan, Margaret Hamilton, Percy Kilbride. An emotionally disturbed girl turns an idyllic household into a chaotic nightmare. 120 min. DVD 7597; vhs 999:3385 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gun Crazy (aka Deadly Is the Female) (1950) Directed by Joseph Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall. Although Bart is not a violent man at heart, he allows the no-good Laurie to lure him into a life of crime. DVD 2716; vhs 999:517 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Johnson, Gary. "Gun Crazy" (10 Shades of Noir) Images, issue 2. Martin, Adrian. "Violently Happy: Gun Crazy." Senses of Cinema 10: (no pagination). 2000 Nov. Ruhmann, Lony. "Gun Crazy, 'The Accomplishment of Many, Many Minds': An Interview with Joseph H. Lewis." The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 20. 1983 Summer. pp: 16-21 To the top Hangmen Also Die (1943) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Dennis O'Keefe. Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svoboda enlists the aid of a young woman who is oblivious to the lethal crosscurrents that surround her in Czechoslovakia. As she learns more about the mysterious doctor, she grows aware of the involvement of her father and fiance in the resistance, and soon finds herself entangled in the revolution's secret operations. 134 min. DVD 170; VHS 999:719 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database He Walked by Night (1948) Directed by Alfred Werker and Anthony Mann. Cast: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, Jack Webb, Reed Hadley. Semi-documentary chase drama showing how the Los Angeles police department frantically searches for a cold blooded killer on the loose in Los Angeles. DVD 163; VHS 999:1303 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Basinger, Jeanine. Anthony Mann Twayne Publishers, 1979 (MAIN: PN1998.A3 .M321143; MOFF: PN1998.A3 .M321143) Smith, Robert E. "Mann in the dark : the films noir of Anthony Mann." In: Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1996. (MAIN: PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996) Heat Wave (1942) Directed by Ken Hughes. Cast: Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Susan Stephen, Sid James, Alan Wheatley, Paul Carpenter. An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband. 68 min. DVD 6021 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database High Sierra (1941) Directed by Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers. Set against the captivating background of California's High Sierra Montains, the story begins when convicted killer Roy Earle is sprung from jail by mobster "Big Mac", who wants Earle to assist in a California hotel hold-up. As a favor to his old friend, he agrees to pull one more job and then settle down to a normal life. From a novel by W. R. Burnett. 101 min. DVD 3500; VHS 999:1812 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Alley, Kenneth D. "High Sierra: Swan Song for an Era." Journal of Popular Film 1976 5(3-4): 248-262. Georgakas, Dan. "Ida Lupino: Doing It Her Way." Cineaste, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 32-36, 2000 UC users only Simons, John L. "Henry on Bogie: Reality and Romance in 'Dream Song No. 9' and High Sierra." Literature-Film Quarterly, 1977, 5, 269-72. Utley, Francis L. "Onomastic Variety in the High Sierra." Names: Journal of the American Name Society, vol. 20, pp. 73-82, 1972 His Kind of Woman! (1951) Directed by John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jan Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw. Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort, $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. 120 min. DVD 5847 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Hitch-Hiker (1953) Directed by Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman. The only true 'film noir' ever directed by a woman, this tour de force thriller is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by a psychopathic serial killer. 70 min. DVD 169; VHS 999:2777 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Armstrong, Richard. "South of the Chocolate Mountains: Scattered Impressions of The Hitch-Hiker." Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. 37, pp. (no pagination), August 2002 Georgakas, Dan. "Ida Lupino: Doing It Her Way."Cineaste 25:3 [Summer 2000] p. 32-36 UC users only Queen of the 'B's : Ida Lupino behind the camera / edited by Annette Kuhn. Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1995. (Main Stack PN1998.3.L89.Q44 1995) Hollow Triumph (The Scar) (1948) Directed by Steve Sekelye; Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen. An ex-medical student in trouble with gambling debts kills a psychiatrist who is his exact look-alike, except for a scar on the doctor's cheek. The student impersonates the dead psychiatrist, but mistakenly makes his own scar on the wrong cheek. It is not long before the doctor's secretary is on to him and he discovers the doctor had a few gambling debts himself. Originally made in 1948 as a motion picture under the title Hollow Triumph. Based on the novel by Murray Forbes. 83 min. DVD 3657; also VHS 999:2245 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database House By the River (1950) Directed by Fritz Lang; Cast: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt. Stephen Byrne is so caught up in murder that it finally catches up with him. From a novel by A.P. Herbert. 85 min. DVD 4918; vhs 999:667 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fritz Lang bibliography House of Bamboo (1955) Directed by Samuel Fuller. Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter, Sessue Hayakawa. Filmed on location in Tokyo, Japan. Sandy Dawson has assembled a platoon of ex-Army thugs to run pachinko parlors while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his beautiful mistress. But Spanier's behavior grows treacherous, and his loyalties become questionable, leading to a breathless, murderous conclusion high above the ancient city of Tokyo. 102 min. DVD 4215 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database House of Strangers (1949) Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler. Set in the rich historical atmosphere of New York's turn-of-the century Lower East Side, this is the powerful story of Gino Monetti, a ruthless immigrant who builds a banking empire on fraud and exploitation which is eventually destroyed by hate and greed. DVD special features: Audio commentary with film author & historian Foster Hirsch; poster gallery; production stills gallery; unit photography gallery; theatrical trailer; Fox flix. Based on the novel I'll never go there any more, by Jerome Weidman. 101 min. DVD 7668; vhs 999:3100 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The House on 92nd Street (1945) Directed by Henry Hathaway. Cast: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo. G. Carroll, Lydia St. Clair, William Post. When a young German American is solicited as a Nazi spy during WWII, he accepts the job after agreeing to go undercover for the FBI. Once he learns that his mission is to send atomic bomb secrets to the German government, the FBI chief works relentlessly to prevent this while not giving his agent's identity away. 89 min. DVD 4382 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) Directed by Robert Wise. Cast: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortesa, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Gebert. Victoria Kowelska has lived through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has finally emigrated to San Francisco. She has assumed her dead friend's identity and now lives among her family, including a young boy who is to inherit a fortune. She falls for the boy's guardian but soon learns that she may be in danger again. 93 min. DVD 5258 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Human Desire (1954) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan. Upon discovering that his seductive, young wife Vicki has done more than just talk with a railroad official, former railroader Carl Buckley knifes his rival. Jeff Warren sees Vicki emerge from the murder compartment, but because of mutual attraction, refuses to testify against her. Based on a novel by Emile Zola. 81 min. 999:680 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fritz Lang bibliography To the top I Wake Up Screaming (1941) Directed by Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar. Murder mystery about Vicky Lynn, a waitress who becomes a cafe society celebrity only to be killed just before her departure to Hollywood. The main suspect is sports promoter Frankie Christopher who engineered Vicky's rise to fame, but Vicky's sister Jill is also a suspect and things become further complicated when she and Frankie fall in love. DVD Special features: Audio commentary with film noir historian Eddie Muller; "Daddy" deleted scene; poster gallery; production stills gallery; unit photography gallery; theatrical trailer; Fox flix. 82 min. DVD 5634; vhs 999:2778 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Illegal (1955) Directed by Lewis Allen. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield. Ambitious D.A. Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a woman's murder. But as Clary walks to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man. Realizing that he's made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution, but is too late. Scott resigns as a prosecutor and enters private practice. He draws the attention of mob kingpin Frank Garland. Scott represents one of Garland's stooges on a murder rap and Scott, in a grand display of courtroom theatrics, wins the case. Embroiled in dirty mob politics, the situation becomes intolerable when his former protege is charged with a murder that seems to implicate her as an informant to the Garland mob. Special features: Commentaries by Nina Foch and film historian Patricia King Hanson on 'Illegal' and film historian Richard B. Jewell on 'The big steal;' vintage "Behind the cameras" segment with Edward G. Robinson from the 'Warner Bros. presents' TV series; new featurettes: "Illegal: marked for life" and "The big steal: look behind you;" theatrical trailers. 88 min. DVD 8414 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Impact (1949) Directed by Arthur Lubin. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong. Millionaire industrialist Walter Williams is marked for murder by his wife and her lover. When the plot ends in a fiery disaster, Williams is thought dead. In reality, he finds himself without a clue of who he is or what happened. As his memory returns, his life becomes a roller coaster ride of suspense and excitement. 111 min. DVD 2152 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database In a Lonely Place (1950) Director, Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart. A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. His volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love. DVD 3486; also VHS 999:974 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Kansas City Confidential (1952) Directed by Phil Karlson. Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, Dona Drake, Mario Siletti. In this film noir a bitter ex-cop turns criminal mastermind, pulling off a huge armored car robbery. A reformed con man turns investigator when he is unwittingly framed for the robbery. 98 min. DVD 3809; vhs 999:2870 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Key Largo (1948) Directed by John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. A returning war veteran fights gangsters who take over a hotel in the Florida Keys in an effort to clandestinely re-enter the country. DVD 294; vhs 999:638 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Killers (1946) Directed by Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, William Conrad, Jack Lambert, Jeff Corey. After killing a man, two killers dig into their victim's past to discover who hired them and why. Based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. The DVD includes the 1964 version of "The Killers," and Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version (19 min.), plus other special features. 102 min. DVD 1567; vhs 999:1857 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ernest Hemingway and the Movies bibliography Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak : a biography, with critical analyses of his films noirs and a filmography of all his works Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998. (MAIN: PN1998.3.S54 A46 1998) Walker, Michael. "Robert Siodmak." In: The Book of film noir / edited by Ian Cameron. Place/Publisher New York : Continuum, c1993. (Moffitt PN1995.9.F54.B66 1993; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 M68 1992) The Killers (aka Ernest Hemingway's The Killers) (1964) Directed by Don Siegel. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavettes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan. Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill. The DVD includes the 1946 version of "The Killers," and Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version (19 min.), plus other special features. 94 min. DVD 1567 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ernest Hemingway and the Movies bibliography Killer's Kiss (1956) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Ruth Sobotka. Film noir about a struggling boxer in New York City who protects a nightclub dancer from her boyfriend and boss, unaware that he is a gangster. DVD 561; VHS 999:1239 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Stanley Kubrick bibliography The Killing (1956) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Kola Kwariani, Timothy Carey, Joe Sawyer. A group of small-time crooks plan and execute a daring race-track robbery--but their well-laid plans go awry. DVD 720; VHS 999:660 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database A Kiss Before Dying (1955) Director, Gerd Oswald. Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, Mary Astor. Troubled by the death of her twin sister, a young woman unwittingly falls in love with an ambitious man. As she investigates her sister's death, she discovers that what she doesn't know about her boyfriend may kill her. 95 min. DVD 2035 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Directed by Robert Aldrich. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Paul Stewart, Albert Dekker. A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder. Along the way, he is told to back off by the Feds, a bomb is placed in his car, a friend is killed, and he himself is beaten, drugged, and held hostage. DVD 1077; vhs 999:146 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kiss of Death (1947) Directed by Henry Hathaway. Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark. This gripping crime melodrama set a new standard for realism in Hollywood. Victor Mature is Nick Bianco, a two-bit crook who is trying to go straight. He has a wife and two girls to feed, but nobody hires ex-cons. Nick cooperates with the D.A. (Brian Donlevy) to save his family. The D.A. wants Nick to squeal on up-and-coming hood Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), but that could be very unhealthy -- for Nick and his two young daughters. Special DVD features: Commentary by James Ursini and Alain Silver, theatrical trailer, still gallery. DVD 7669; vhs 999:471 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) Directed by Gordon Douglas; Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond. "From the trial of the survivors, we flash back to amoral crook Ralph Cotter's violent prison break, assisted by Holiday Carleton, sister of another prisoner...who doesn't make it. Soon Ralph manipulates the grieving Holiday into his arms, and two crooked cops follow her into his pocket. Ralph's total lack of scruple brings him great success in a series of robberies. But his easy conquest of gullible heiress Margaret Dobson proves more dangerous to him than any crime." [from Internet Movie Database] 102 min. DVD 3816; vhs 999:2370 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Monk, Philip. Double-cross : the Hollywood films of Douglas Gordon Toronto: Power Plant, c2003. (PFA: N6797.G67 M65 2003) Knock on Any Door (1949) Directed by Nicholas Ray. Cast: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark. Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums while his client, Nick Romano, has a long string of crimes behind him. After Nick lost his paycheck gambling, his wife announces she is pregnant and later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Film is notable for Morton's appeal to the court which emphasizes the evils of the slums. 100 min. 999:2335 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nicholas Ray bibliography To the top Lady From Shanghai(1948) Directed by Orson Welles. Cast: Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia. An Irish seaman becomes involved in a web of intrigue when he is hired to work on a yacht owned by a crippled lawyer and his beautiful, mysterious wife. 87 min. DVD 332; VHS 999:63 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lady in the Lake (1947) Directed by Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames. Philip Marlowe searches for a missing wife--and discovers a different woman's corpse in a mountain lake. Film utilizes a daring technique in which the subjective camera becomes the "I" and viewers experience the action--socks to the jaw and all--from Marlowe's viewpoint. See the clues as Marlowe sees them and maybe solve the case before he does. DVD 5849; vhs 999:1529 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gernalzick, Nadja. "To Act Or To Perform: Distinguishing Filmic Autobiography." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1-13, Winter 2006UC users only Telotte, J. P. "The Detective As Dreamer: The Case of The Lady in the Lake." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 12 no. 1. 1984 Spring. pp: 4-15. Williamson, Catherine. "'You'll see it just as I saw it': voyeurism, fetishism, and the female spectator in Lady in the Lake." Journal of Film and Video (48:3) 1996, 17-29. Lady on a Train (1945) Directed by Charles David. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris, Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea, Edward Everett Horton. A young woman on a New York-bound train is witness to a murder outside her compartment window. When police refuse to believe her story, she draws on her penchant for reading mystery novels and sets out to solve the case herself. 95 min. 999:2306 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Laura (1944) Directed by Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson. Cynical detective investigates the murder of a beautiful girl, but finds himself falling in love with the dead woman through her striking portrait. 999:678 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Frischauer, Willi. Behind the scenes of Otto Preminger; an unauthorized biography New York, Morrow, 1974 [c1973] (MOFF: PN1998.A3 .P674 1973) Pratley, Gerald. The cinema of Otto Preminger London, A. Zwemmer; New York, A. S. Barnes [1971] (MAIN: PN1998.A3 P6831) Preminger, Otto. Preminger : an autobiographyGarden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977. (MAIN: PN1998 A3.P6721 1977; PFA : PN1998.3.P74 P74 1977) Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Directed by John M. Stahl. Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price. Melodrama with Tierney as a psychopathic young wife whose jealous, obsessive love for her husband leads to murder, treachery, and suicide. Includes rare Movietone news footage. 111 min. DVD 3807; vhs 999:1763 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Deutelbaum, Marshall. "Costuming and the Color System of Leave Her to Heaven." Film Criticism, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 11-20, Spring 1987 Turim, Maureen. "The Question of Ideology: Fictive Psyches: The Psychological Melodrama in 40s Films." boundary 2, Vol. 12, No. 3, (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 321-331. UC users only The Letter (1940) Directed by William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Songergaard. A rubber plantation owner's wife kills a man in what seems to have been self-defense but a letter from her which proves it to have been a crime of passion, becomes an instrument of blackmail. 95 min. DVD 3431; VHS 999:2356 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Heil, Douglas. "The Construction of Racism through Narrative and Cinematography in The Letter." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 17-25, 1996 William Wyler bibliography The Limping Man (1953) Directed by Charles De Latour [Cy Endfield]. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Songergaard. An ex G.I. returns to England to look up a wartime girlfriend and rekindle their romance. He soon realizes that she has become involved with racketeers but before he can untangle her mess, he helps the local police track down a deadly sniper. 76 min. DVD 3657 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Loan Shark (1952) Directed by Seymour Friedman. Cast: George Raft, Dorothy Hart, John Hoyt, Paul Stewart, Helen Westcott. Tough ex-con George Raft is hired by a factory owner and a union leader to help smash a loan-sharking mob preying on their employees. To obtain the necessary evidence, Raft puts his life on the line by joining the gang. 74 min. DVD 8238 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Long Night (1947) Directed by Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Elisha Cook Jr. Joe Adams, a factory worker pinned inside his third-floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious gentleman, reconstructs the events leading up to the shooting through an intricate series of flashbacks. 97 min. DVD 634 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lost Weekend (1945) Directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen. A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devestating effects of alcoholism. DVD 535; vhs 999:433 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Billy Wilder bibliography Lured (1947) Directed by Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwick. A serial killer terrorizes London by luring women into meeting with him through the personal ads in the newspaper and taunting the police with gruesome poems. A Scotland Yard detective enlists the aid of a feisty American redhead (Lucille Ball) to draw the murderer into the dragnet. 100 min. DVD 2043 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Douglas Sirk bibliography To the top Macao (1952) Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix. A story of crime, passion, and international intrigue played out in the infamous Portuguese island off the south coast of China. 80 min. DVD 6849; vhs 999:2875 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Josef von Sternberg bibliography Maltese Falcon (1941) Directed by John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre. Centers around an unrelenting search for a valuable and elusive falcon statuette. 100 min. DVD 173; VHS 999:17 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Man from Cairo (Dramma nella Kasbah) (Italy / UK / USA, 1953) Directed by Ray Enright. Cast: George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Leon Lenoir, Alfredo Varelli, Irene Papas. Tough-guy Raft investigates the wartime theft of 100 million dollars in gold hidden somewhere in the Algerian desert. Solid film noir with action, adventure and ...Irene Papas in a hot tub! 82 min. DVD 8248 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) Directed by Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen. When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos washed up ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. Interested in chronicling his unscrupulous exploits, a mystery writer takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man. 96 min. 999:2347 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mask of the Dragon (1951) Directed by Sam Newfield. Cast: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Michael Whalen, Lyle Talbot, Charles Iwamoto. An American soldier in Korea agrees to deliver a jade dragon to a curio shop in Los Angeles. Soon after his return to the States, he is murdered in this tale of intrigue and mystery produced on a dime store budget! 55 min. DVD 8248 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mildred Pierce (1945) Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth. The story of a self-made woman's attempt to provide her daughter with luxuries and social status only to see the daughter become spoiled and unscrupulous and eventually murder her own stepfather. 111 min. DVD 1689; vhs 999:215 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ministry of Fear (1944) Directed by Fritz Lang. Cast: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary ) Brooke, Percy Waram, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford. A man is released into World War II England after 2 years in an asylum, but the outside world does not seem so sane either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and does not quite know to whom to turn. Based on a novel by Graham Greene. 87 min. 999:1858 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fritz Lang bibliography Mr. Arkadin (1955) Directed by Orson Welles; Cast: Welles, Paola Mori, Robert Arden, Patricia Medina, Michael Redgrave. Set in Spain, Mr. Arkadin tells the story of a reclusive billionaire who, faking a case of amnesia, hires a young adventurer who has been seeing his daughter to investigate his own past. As the inquiries begin unraveling, Arkadin's sordid history, the young man realizes he's being used to keep the truth from Arkadin's daughter and that his own life is in danger. 93 min. DVD 465; VHS 999:492 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Murder My Sweet (1945) Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki. The story of a private detective who gets drawn into a complex web of murder, blackmail, and double-dealing while searching for a missing jade necklace. Based on Raymond Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely." DVD 2718; vhs 999:584 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mystery Street (1950) Directed by John Sturges. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson. Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is found on a lonely Cape Cod beach. Using the macabre expertise of Harvard forensic specialist Dr. McAdoo, Lt. Pete Morales must work back from bones to find the victim's identity and killer. Special features: Film historian commentaries by Dr. Drew Casper on 'Act of violence' and Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward on 'Mystery street;' new featurettes "Act of violence: dealing with the devil" and "Mystery street: murder at Harvard;" theatrical trailers. 93 min. DVD 8416 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Naked City(1948) Directed by Jules Dassin. Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Ted DeCorsica. In this film-noir thriller, one of the first pictures filmed on location in New York City, a squad of homicide detectives roams through the seamier parts of the City as they solve a murder case. Through the use of a hidden camera, the movie gives viewers an unvarnished look at life in the city using the technique neorealism. DVD 403; Video Disc 171; VHS 999:1134 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Wald, Malvin. The Naked City: A Screenplay / by Malvin Wald and Albert Maltz; story by Malvin Wald; edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli; afterword by Malvin Wald. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1979] c1948. ( PN1997 .N324 Main Stack) Kozloff, Sarah. "Humanizing 'The Voice of God': Narration in The Naked City." Cinema Journal, vol. 23 no. 4. 1984 Summer. pp: 41-53.UC users only Naked Kiss(1964) Directed by Samuel Fuller. Cast: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey. Kelly, a prostitute, shows up in the town of Grantville, where she engages in a tryst with sheriff Griff, who then tells her to get out of town. Instead, she decides to give up her illicit lifestyle, and becomes involved in working with handicapped children. Griff doesn't trust her, and continues trying to run her out of town. Kelly falls in love with Grant, scion of the town's founding family and Griff's best friend. Just as Griff begins to believe that Kelly may be on the level, a murder and perversion scandal threaten to destroy Kelly's new life [from Internet Movie Database]. DVD 1079; vhs 999:495 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fuller, Samuel. A Third face : my tale of writing, fighting and filmmaking / Samuel Fuller with Christa Lang Fuller and Jerome Henry Rude. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002. (Main Stack PN1998.3.F85.A3 2002) Garnham, Nicholas. Samuel Fuller. New York, Viking Press [1972, c1971] ( MAIN: PN1993 .C45 v.15 [another edition]; MOFF: PN1998.A3 F843 1972) Hardy, Phil. Samuel Fuller. [New York] Praeger [1970] (MAIN: PN1998.A3F845 H3; MOFF: PN1998 A3 F845) Sanjek, David. 'Torment Street between Malicious and Crude': Sophisticated Primitivism in the Films of Samuel Fuller. Literature/ Film Quarterly, vol. 22 no. 3. 1994. pp: 187-94. Server, Lee. Sam Fuller : film is a battleground : a critical study, with interviews, a filmography, and a bibliography Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1994. (MAIN: PN1998.3.F85 S47 1994) The Narrow Margin (1952) Directed by Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White. A hard-boiled cop, transporting a gangster's widow to a trial in which she'll testify, must dodge three hitmen aboard their train who are trying to kill her. 71 min. DVD 4116; vhs 999:469 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nightfall(1956) Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory. When a commercial artist meets and befriends a woman at a bar, as they are leaving they are accosted by two crooks who abduct the artist thinking he has a bag containing $300,000 stolen in a bank robbery. Eventually he escapes and he and his woman companion find the loot in a ghost town where the crooks are also hiding resulting in a final confrontation. 999:1262 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fujiwara, Chris. Jacques Tourneur : the cinema of nightfall Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. (PFA : PN1998.3.T68 F84 2000; MAIN: PN1998.3.T6 F85 1998 [Earlier edition]) Nightmare Alley (1947) Directed by Edmund Goulding. Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith. "Circus geeks — those lowdown human wrecks willing to bite the heads off live chickens for sensation-seeking crowds — aren’t exactly au courant on the entertainment circuit these days, but there’s a doozy in Nightmare Alley. Though he’s only seen in shadow, his creepy image and maniacal laughter dominate this rarest of film noirs, unseen for many years in any format due to a rights problem. Set in a cheesy carnival, the film presents an unforgettable gallery of grotesques whose lives intertwine romantically, criminally, and, ultimately, fatally. There’s a con-artist drifter (Tyrone Power), a phony mind-reader (Joan Blondell), her alcoholic husband (Ian Keith), a brutal strongman (Mike Mazurki), and an unscrupulous shrink (Helen Walker), all players in a dance-of-death, shadow-drenched scenario of infidelity, mayhem, and murder. The grim atmosphere, razor-sharp dialogue, and sordid doings are rendered in high studio style courtesy of waspish director Edmund Goulding, who worked with Garbo and Crawford; screenwriter Jules Furthman (To Have and Have Not); and Dietrich’s cinematographer, Lee Garmes. The author of the source novel, William Lindsay Gresham, eventually committed suicide. You'll understand why when (if) you see the film." [Morris, Gary. "Little Stabs of Happiness (and Horror)." Bright Lights,August 2004 | Issue 45 ] 111 min. DVD 4028 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database No Way Out (1950) Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier. When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. DVD special features: Commentary by film historian Eddie Muller, still gallery, Fox Movietone news, original theatrical trailer. 106 min. DVD 7667; vhs 999:2450 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Porfino, Robert. "No way out : existential motifs in the film noir." In: Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1996. (MAIN: PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996) Nocturne (1947) Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell. Mystery surrounds the death of a womanizing composer named Vincent. Tough homicide detective Joe Warne believes Vincent's death was no suicide... that he was murdered and Joe now has 10 beautiful suspects in the crime! He finds himself in deep trouble investigating the strangest, most dangerous case he's ever worked on! If he's not careful, he's going to end up like Vincent! 87 min. 999:3565 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Directed by Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame. A bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads him to reconsider. For the job only, he'll put his racism aside ... until moments away from the score, hatred erupts. In this film to obtain the edgy look desired by the director a rare filming technique was used: infrared photography. DVD 2229; vhs 999:1843 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database On Dangerous Ground(1951) Directed by Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper. Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind [Internet Movie Database]. DVD 5850; vhs 999:140 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nicholas Ray bibliography Out of the Past (1947) Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Jane Greer, Rhonda Fleming. Jeff (Robert Mitchum), a former private detective, is hired by a gangster (Kirk Douglas) to find his former girlfriend (Jane Greer) whom he still loves, who took 10,000 from him and disappeared. Jeff not only finds the girl, but falls in love with her as well, thus, making the gangster very jealous. During the investigation and the unexpected love affair several murders occur which ultimately lead to further tragedies. DVD 2720; vhs 999:657 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Panic In the Streets (1950) Directed by Elia Kazan. Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes. Classic crime melodrama about a twisted killer who harbors bubonic plague -- a deadly disease that could wipe out an entire city. DVD 3848; vhs 999:472 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Party Girl (1958) Directed by Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly, Corey Allen. Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realised that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. She makes him decide to get out of the business, but mob king Rico Angelo insists that he continue his services. 99 min. 999:3570 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Phantom Lady (1943) Directed by Robert Siodmak. Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes. An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police present and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows clues through shadowy nocturnal streets hoping to clear her employer. 87 min. 999:1855 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Williams, Tony. "Phantom lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the masochistic aesthetic." In: Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1996. (MAIN: PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 F57 1996) Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak : a biography, with critical analyses of his films noirs and a filmography of all his works Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998. (MAIN: PN1998.3.S54 A46 1998) Koepnick, Lutz. "Doubling the Double: Robert Siodmak in Hollywood." New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, vol. 89, pp. 81-104, Spring 2003 Walker, Michael. "Robert Siodmak." In: The Book of film noir / edited by Ian Cameron. Place/Publisher New York : Continuum, c1993. (Moffitt PN1995.9.F54.B66 1993; PFA : PN1995.9.F54 M68 1992) Pickup on South Street (1953) Directed by Samuel Fuller. Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter. Richard Widmark stars as Skip McCoy, thief with a record as a three-time loser. That doesn't stop him from pickpocketing a street-smart beauty who's carrying secret microfilm for a gang of communist spies. DVD 2709; vhs 999:516 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Pitfall(1948) Directed by Andre de Toth. Cast: Dick Powell, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, Elizabeth Scott. A happily married insurance salesman becomes bored with his perfect wife and ideal son. When he succumbs to the advances of a pretty younger woman, it leads to a complicated web of intrigue, jealousy and murder. 999:1238 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Danks, Adrian. "Driftin': In Tribute to André de Toth." Senses of Cinema vol. 25, pp. (no pagination), March 2003 Silver, Alain. "André de Toth (1913-2002): An Interview." Senses of Cinema vol. 25, pp. (no pagination), March 2003 UC users only Port of New York (1949) Directed by Laslo Benedek. Cast: Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Arthur Blake, Lynne Carter, John Kellog, William Chalee. Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their drugs. Shot on location in 1949, film is notable for great shots of old New York, including street scenes, harbor and skyline shots. 83 min. 999:3573 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Portland Expose (1957) Directed by Harold D. Schuster. Cast: Edward Binns, Carolyn Craig, Virginia Gregg, Lawrence Dobkin, Frank Gorshin. The story concentrates on an honest tavern owner named George Madison who is involuntarily sucked into the city's rotten-to-the-core political machine. When Madison refuses to allow his establishment to serve as the gathering place for hoods and delinquents, the powers-that-be threaten to harm his family. Only after his daughter is attacked by a syndicate flunkey does Madison decide to fight back. At great personal risk, he manages to tape-record damning evidence against Portland's 'untouchable' criminal kingpin. 72 min. DVD 8237 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Possessed (1947) Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, John Ridgely, Moroni Olsen, Gerald Perreau. A solitary, emotionally unstable private nurse obsessively attempts to regain the love of a callous bachelor, which ultimately drives her into madness--and murder. DVD 4047; vhs 999:1085 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Directed by Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed. Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together. DVD 2232; vhs 999:902 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) See Neo-Noir Private Hell 36 (1954) Directed by Don Siegel. Cast: Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Steve Cochran, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone. After receiving a stolen $50 bill from a patron, night club singer Lilli Marlow joins with two detectives to identify the criminal. During a high-speed car chase up a mountain road the fugitive crashes over an embankment and the detectives and Lilli find a box beside his body full of money -- enough money to lure the trio into a web of greed that will eventually cost one man his life. 81 min. 999:2756 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Georgakas, Dan. "Ida Lupino: Doing It Her Way." Cineaste, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 32-36, 2000 UC users only Quicksand (1950) Directed by Irving Pichel. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes, Art Smith, Wally Cassell. A law-abiding citizen "borrows" a few dollars to go out on a date. As fast as quicksand, his first minor criminal act turns into tragedy. Every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into crime, while everyone he meets is out for what they can get. 79 min. DVD 2133 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top The Racket (1947) Directed by John Cromwell. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan. A straight-arrow cop and an old-s