Internet Archive - Collection: Film_Noir

Ida Lupino's "THE HITCH-HIKER" (1953)

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:23:56 GMT

Sixth Lupino feature and first "Film noir" made by a woman ever. Hardly sentimental and sharp edged thriller with very modern filming. The paralysed "eyelid" thing is very clever too. more info on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045877/.

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Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:42:08 GMT

Top-of-the-line noir melodrama featuring Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, and Kirk Douglas. Don't miss it. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television..

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The Chase

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:43:57 GMT

Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends. The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddie's lovely, fearful, ....

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The Pay Off (1935)

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:29:06 GMT

NOTE: DESCRIPTION CORRECTED. This is about a crime fighting newspaperman. Brad McKay, played by Lee Tracy, whom I have never heard of, works with the police to solve a case involving $100k and some murders....

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T-Men

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:12 GMT

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039881/ United States Treasury agents O'Brien (dEnnis O'Keefe) and Genaro infiltrate a counterfeiting ring which has some dangerously good paper. This undercover-secret-service-agents-infiltrate-counterfeiting-ring film is heavily dependent on exceptionally fine noir lig....

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Trapped

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:30:39 GMT

The film tells the story of the U.S. Treasury Department who, with the aid of a counterfeiter, try to track down and stop of counterfeiting ring. The counterfeiter, Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) serving time in prison, is released under the agreement that he will assist in the capture of the phoney m....

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Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:14:56 GMT

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Strange Illusion

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:18:35 GMT

"Adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father. Stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies." - noir expert Spencer Selby.

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The Man Who Cheated Himself

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:46:25 GMT

"Tough cop helps his lover cover up the shooting of her wealthy husband. Mainstream noir, primarily distinguished by its acting and San Francisco visuals." - noir expert Spencer Selby Cast: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard....

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The Scar

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:15:08 GMT

"Harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy visuals and a very fine script that features a creative doppelganger theme." - noir expert Spencer Selby Also titled "Hollow Triumph"....

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They Made Me a Killer

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:57:31 GMT

A man arrested for bank robbery escapes and tries to track down the real culprits. You can find out more at IMDB.com..

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:13:35 GMT

"Man is waylaid by chance in old home town, meets a girl down on her luck and a turbulent couple with whom he shares a dark childhood secret. Significant noir melodrama focusing on provocative, intermingling relationships of neurotic love, guilt and fear." - noir expert Spencer Selby Cast: Barbara S....

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The Hitch-Hiker

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:17:33 GMT

Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up a hitch-hiker (William Talman) who turns out to be an insane escaped convict. The mpeg2 file is ready to be loaded into dvdAuthorGUI to create a DVD to watch on your television..

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Fear in the Night

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:05:23 GMT

DeForest Kelley in a Cornell Woolrich story. This is a better copy than what is already on this site..

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Too Late for Tears

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:58:22 GMT

This is pure noir. Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy are a couple who receive a satchel full of money that was intended for someone else (Dan Duryea). He wants to turn the cash over to the authorities; she wants to keep it---no matter what the consequenses: "Jane, Jane, what's happening to us---what....

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Quicksand

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:22:39 GMT

An engrossing film noir with Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, and Jeanne Cagney. Needing money for a date, Rooney borrows $20 from the cash register, starting a chain of events that includes car theft, burglary, and possibly murder....

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Scarlet Street

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:41:10 GMT

"Sultry woman's boyfriend has her hook middle-aged clerk for his money, leading first to ironic and then tragic complications. Second of a pair of closely related middle class nightmares directed by Fritz Lang....

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Jigsaw

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:37:32 GMT

The plot is about a shadowy group called the Crusaders, which has been organizing itself into a power center. Its poster shows a handsome Aryan lad against the waving American flag. Their slogan, "Join The Crusaders -- Fight for America!"....

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Fear in the Night

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:28:53 GMT

A film noir shocker, based on the story Nightmare by Cornell Woorlich, in which average Joe Vince Grayson (De Forest Kelley) dreams he murders someone and wakes up to find it may not have been a dream....

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Shock

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:12:52 GMT

This post-World War II suspense thriller sets off an emotional roller coaster after the psychologically fragile wife of a POW (Anabel Shaw) witnesses a brutal murder from a hotel window while waiting to be reunited with her husband (Frank Latimer)....

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The Second Woman

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:40:00 GMT

Robert Young plays Jeff Cohalan, a young man whose wife was murdered while they were on their honeymoon, and who is plagued by strange accidents and visions of her death. He meets a beautiful young woman on a train, Ellen (Betsy Drake), and it becomes apparent that the two are very attracted to one ....

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Borderline

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:29:16 GMT

Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor are caught in Mexican dope-smuggling ring, fearing each other is involved, but both undercover agents. Cast includes Raymond Burr. For more info on this film see its IMDB.com entry.

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Panic In The Streets

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:49:46 GMT

Not to be confused with the later (1972) version, which is copyrighted, this one is PD http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042832/ One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie (Jack Palance) and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game....

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Quicksand

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:41:20 GMT

After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control..

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Door-to-Door Maniac

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:00:05 GMT

A gang of bank robbers (Johnny Cash) terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers..

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Kansas City Confidential (iPod)

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:02:58 GMT

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits..

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Kansas City Confidential

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:38:42 GMT

Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is beaten up by the local police....

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Beat the Devil

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:57:04 GMT

This is a DVD image. Beat the Devil This movie has not become a cult classic for nothing. Among its other merits, it is one of the few films where a film noir is mixed with a comedy. It’s a whose who of actors of it’s vintage and is directed by John Huston....

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He Walked By Night

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:46:16 GMT

Gripping film noir crime drama about a manhunt for a ruthless killer who plays a deadly cat and mouse game with the police. Starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Whit Bissell, and Jack Webb, this movie was the basis for "Dragnet"....

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Detour (iPod)

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:12:40 GMT

"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit fatalism." - noir expert Spencer Selby A B-movie, it was shot in six days....

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Detour

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:29:59 GMT

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The Red House iPod

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:24:56 GMT

Curiosity propels two teens, Meg and Nath (Allene Roberts and Lon McCallister) to explore an apparently abandoned house in the countryside. Of course they are warned to stay away from the secluded place..

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The Red House

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:39:44 GMT

"Middle-aged farmer goes to extreme lengths to protect the dark secret associated with a deserted house on his property. Murky psychological thriller with resonant settings and an emotive Miklos Rozsa score." - noir expert Spencer Selby.

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D.O.A.

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:29:05 GMT

Acclaimed film noir story of man trying desperately to find who has given him a slow-acting fatal dose of radium..

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Scarlet Street

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:20:19 GMT

German director Fritz Lang is best known for the highly influential films from relatively early in his career, especially Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). But he also had a brief Hollywood heyday during the mid 1940s, when he made some of his best films....

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The Green Glove

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:11:36 GMT

Glen Ford plays Michael Blake a WWII veteran who retuns to France to find a mysterious Green Glove he had discoverd during the early days of Normandy invasion..

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Beat the Devil

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:34:39 GMT

Off-genre comedy-film noir..

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Suddenly

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:55:11 GMT

"Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Glea....

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Impact

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:07:37 GMT

"Wealthy businessman survives attempt by wife to have him killed, makes it look like she succeeded and starts a new life in small town as auto mechanic. Variation on idea elevated to noir importance by The Killers (1946), where victim of femme fatale tries to abandon the city and his past identity."....

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Wrong Road

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:36:46 GMT

Spoiled young lovers rob bank and hide the loot. Lionell Atwill tries to find it. With Richard Cromwell and Helen Mack..

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Inner Sanctum

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:20:26 GMT

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page..

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Parole Inc

Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:03:32 GMT

"Low budget exposé thriller of corruption being uncovered in the parole system." - Spencer Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir | You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page..

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D.O.A.

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:10:51 GMT

D.O.A. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies....

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