IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062467/
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
Genres: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 108min
Cast
Audrey Hepburn ... Susy Hendrix
Alan Arkin ... Roat / Roat Jr / Roat Sr
Richard Crenna ... Mike Talman
Efrem Zimbalist Jr ... Sam Hendrix
Jack Weston ... Carlino
Samantha Jones ... Lisa
Storyline: Susie's husband is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. She disappears. Mike and Carlino are small time hoods who find the woman's body in Susie's apartment, placed there by her partner, Harry Rote. Susie's blindness is the key to them searching the apartment for the doll that contains smuggled drugs. Mike pretends to be an old friend of Susie's husband while her husband is away and together the crooks invent a story of a police investigation of her husband that only the discovery of the now missing doll can save him from. Rote is a killer, and his stalking of Susie becomes more and more obvious as the story unfolds, leaving us with the question, how does a blind woman defend herself?
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Black Legion (1937)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027367/
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Genres: Drama/Crime
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 83min
Cast
Humphrey Bogart ... Frank Taylor
Dick Foran ... Ed Jackson
Erin O'Brien-Moore ... Ruth Taylor
Ann Sheridan ... Betty Grogan
Helen Flint ... Pearl Davis
Storyline: Frank Taylor joins the "pro-American" Black Legion when he loses his chance at foremanship to a foreign-born man. The organization is a sort of Ku Klux Klan in the industrial sphere. Frank has troubles with his wife over this and causes serious trouble when he tells all to his best friend Ed Jackson.
Labels:
ann sheridan,
black legion,
crime,
dick foran,
drama,
erin o'brien-moore,
helen flint,
humphrey bogart
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Cornered (1945)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037615/
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Genres: Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 102 min
Cast
Dick Powell ... Laurence Gerard
Walter Slezak ... Melchior Incza
Micheline Cheirel ... Mme. Madeleine Jarnac (Laurent)
Nina Vale ... Señora Camargo
Morris Carnovsky ... Manuel Satana
Edgar Barrier ... DuBois, Insurance Man
Steven Geray ... Señor Tomas Camargo
Storyline: On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his new bride. He identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac, who is reported as dead himself. Not believing this, Gerard follows the trail to Argentina where it is apparent that Nazism is also far from dead.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
While The City Sleeps (1956)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049949/
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Genres: Drama/Film-Noir
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 100 min
Cast
Dana Andrews ... Edward Mobley
Rhonda Fleming ... Dorothy Kyne
George Sanders ... Mark Loving, KNS Chief
Howard Duff ... Lt. Burt Kaufman
Vincent Price ... Walter Kyne
John Drew Barrymore ... Robert Manners
Ida Lupino ... Mildred Donner
Storyline: Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer. Reporter Edward Mobley is in that circumstances faced with almost impossible missions: to catch the killer, to prevent the media empire from falling into the wrong hands and to save his romantic relationship from break-up.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040823/
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Genres: Drama/Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 89 min
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck ... Leona Stevenson
Burt Lancaster ... Henry Stevenson
Ann Richards ... Sally Hunt Lord
Wendell Corey ... Dr. Alexander
Harold Vermilyea ... Waldo Evans
Ed Bigley ... James Cotterell
William Conrad ... Morano
Storyline: Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. She becomes increasingly desperate as she tries to work out who the victim is so the crime can be prevented.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Criss Cross (1949)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041268/
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
Genres: Crime/Drama/Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 88 min
Cast
Burt Lancaster ... Steve Thompson
Yvonne De Carlo ... Anna
Dan Duryea ... Slim Dundee
Stephen McNally ... Pete Ramirez
Tom Pedi ... Vincent
Percy Helton ... Frank
Storyline: Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous course of action that quickly takes everyone somewhere unintended.
Labels:
burt lancaster,
crime,
criss cross,
dan duryea,
drama,
film-noir,
percy helton,
stephen mcnally,
thriller,
tom pedi,
yvonne de carlo
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Thieves Highway (1949)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041958/
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
Genres: Drama/Film-Noir/Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 94 min
Cast
Richard Conte ... Nick Garcos
Valentina Cortese ... Rica
Lee J. Cobb ... Mike Figlia
Barbara Lawrence ... Polly Faber
Jack Oakie ... Slob
Millard Mitchell ... Ed Kinney
Storyline: A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
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