Henry Hathaway’s Call Northside 777 (1948) Movie
Henry Hathaway’s follow-up to his neo-realist pulp piece “Kiss of Death” is a riveting exploration of a true-life miscarried justice …
Film-Noir
Wake of the Red Witch (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
This unusually classy Republic Pictures production, adapted from a book by Garland Roark, is loaded with all the gaudy trinkets …
House of Bamboo (1955) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary
Sam Fuller only contributed additional dialogue to the script for this, a film noir set in a deceptively technicolor, widescreen-rendered …
Dark Waters (1944) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Dark Waters sports one of the most arresting openings in cinema history. The familiar exposition trick of newspaper headline spinning …
Outrage (1950) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A cup of coffee comes sliding along a lunch counter, taken up by a patron who tastes the drink and …
The Big Night (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Joseph Losey’s The Big Night could well stand alongside Nicholas Ray’s Knock on Any Door and They Live by Night …
The Third Man (1949) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary
The Third Man (1949) IMDB Rating: 8.4 Storyline: An out-of-work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war …
Double Indemnity (1944) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary
Double Indemnity (1944) IMDB Rating: 8.5 Storyline: In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman for the Pacific All Risk Insurance …
The Tall Target (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
One of Anthony Mann’s best films and a prototypical modern thriller, The Tall Target is a near-perfect exemplar of visual, …
Algiers (1938) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Hollywood remakes of popular foreign films don’t have much of a reputation these days; in fact, they’re mostly, notoriously lousy. …
