Showing posts with label Crime Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime Movie. Show all posts
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...
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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Monday, November 11, 2024

Amnesia Noir: 30 Films Worth Remembering

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Alan Ladd, William Bendix, “The Blue Dahlia” (1946). When Returning War Vets and Others Suffer Memory Blackouts, Murder is Often Afoot By Pa...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

How a Real-Life Prison Sentence Added Another Dimension to Mitchum's Performance as a Woozy Doctor on the Run in a Nightmarish Flight From Justice

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Robert Mitchum, "Where Danger Lives" (1950). By Paul Parcellin This article contains spoilers A lot of red flags should go up whe...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Ripped From the Headlines, Part III: True Stories About Dangerous Characters, Corrupt Officials and Gangs of Criminals Who Hold the Public at Bay

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John Dall, Peggy Cummins, “Gun Crazy” (1950). By Paul Parcellin It only takes a couple of desperate , determined outsiders with a gun to sta...
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