Showing posts with label Crime Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime Movie. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Crime tourists, Part I: Yanks behaving badly in foreign lands

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Orson Welles, ‘The Third Man’ (1949). By Paul Parcellin F ilm noir loves morally sketchy locales — the kind of places where law and order is...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Mark Stevens: his quartet of searing films noir still light up screens today

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Lucille Ball , Mark Stevens , ' The Dark Corner ' (1946). By Paul Parcellin M ark Stevens made a string of taut crime dramas in the ...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

‘The Killers’: A much loved noir that’s the spitting image of another American classic

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Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, ‘The Killers’ (1946).  By Paul Parcellin “ The Killers ” (1946) S ome say “The Killers” is the “Citizen Kane” o...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Off the Hook: A bedridden heiress glimpses the face of doom in ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’

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Barbara Stanwyck, ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’ (1948). Crossed phone lines deliver chilling news to a woman stranded in her apartment. Post war pro...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Headshrinker Noir: 10 Films With Mind Games, Crime

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Ingrid Bergman, "Spellbound" (1945). From Dedicated Healers  to Evil Control Freaks, Noir Psychiatrists  Want to Pick Your Brain B...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

D.O.A.: Small Town Man Visits Big City, Murder Follows

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Frank Gerstle, Edmond O’Brien, “D.O.A.” (1949). The doctor delivers some  astonishingly bad news. Frank Bigelow needs to find the truth, but...
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