Film Noir
Strange Illusion (1945) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Classic
Edgar G. Ulmer had already made Detour the year before — the film that would eventually get him remembered as the "King of the Bs" — and by 1945 he was back at Producers Releasing Corporation, the cheapest of Hollywood's…
The Hoodlum (1951) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Crime Classic
By 1951, Lawrence Tierney had already played the role that would define — and arguably derail — his entire career: the title character in Dillinger (1945), the film that made him a star and typecast him permanently as Hollywood's go-to…
Time Table (1956) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Train Heist
The theft in Timetable runs like clockwork for exactly one reason: the man solving it is the man who planned it. Here’s the harder story tucked behind that bit of showmanship— the director doing the part, Mark Stevens, was one…
The Fast and the Furious (1955) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Public Domain Crime Thriller
The film franchise that generated over $7 billion worldwide borrowed its title from a forgotten 1955 B-movie that Roger Corman wrote for $12,000. Universal Pictures purchased the name rights in 2001 and built an empire on them — but the…
The Limping Man (1953) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Thriller
The director's credit on The Limping Man reads "Charles de Lautour." There is a real Charles de Lautour — a British director whom producer Donald Ginsberg hired specifically to appear in public and take the credit that the film's actual…
Million Dollar Weekend (1948) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Crime Classic
The leading actress in Million Dollar Weekend is credited as Stephanie Paull. She is not Stephanie Paull. She is Danish actress Osa Massen — a performer who had appeared in A Woman's Face (1941) and Flying Tigers (1942) and who…
Borderline (1950) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Crime Classi
Claire Trevor had just won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Key Largo (1948). Her husband, former MGM executive Milton Bren, wanted to prove she could do something more than the archetypal tough dame. So he bankrolled a…