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Sunday, April 27, 2025
‘Gun Crazy’ Has a Classic Robbery Scene … But We Never See the Actual Holdup
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John Dall, Peggy Cummins, 'Gun Crazy' (1950). For a dizzying moment spectators become accomplices to a crime By Paul Parcellin “ Gu...
Saturday, April 12, 2025
‘The Long Good Friday’: A Gangster Noir That Saw the Future
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Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, "The Long Good Friday" (1980). Mobster’s World Blown to Bits in an Easter Wave of Terror Contains spoi...
Sunday, March 30, 2025
When Gangsters Collide with the Dark Side: 65 Mobbed Up Films Noir
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Jean Hagen, Sterling Hayden, "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950). In Noir, Racketeers Aren't Like the Ones In Your (Grand)Father'...
Friday, March 7, 2025
Barber Aims to Be a Dry Cleaner, Blackmail, Murder and Suicide Result
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Frances McDormand, Billy Bob Thornton, "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001). Why Did an Acclaimed Coen Brothers Noir Tank at th...
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Sunday, March 2, 2025
‘Murder by Contract’: This Guy Kills Me
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Vince Edwards, Caprice Toriel, 'Murder by Contract' (1958). Dreams of a suburban home, picket fence and a garden can lead a man to h...
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...
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