Thriller
Blood on the Sun (1945) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free James Cagney Wartime Thriller Classic
James Cagney trained for months under Ken Kuniyuki, a fifth-degree judo master, insisting on performing his own stunts for a role that made Blood on the Sun — by more than one account — the first American film built around…
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…
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 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…
Reign of Terror (1949) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free French Revolution Classic
Producer Walter Wanger wanted a respectable historical epic about the French Revolution. What he got from director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton, was kinda a film noir vibe with knee breeches, and a powdered wig too. Reign of Terror…
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Sci-Fi Classic
The director of The Amazing Transparent Man apprenticed under F.W. Murnau and worked on *Sunrise* (1927). He was forced out of major studio work after a personal transgression involving the wife of a Universal executive — she became Shirley Ulmer,…
Tormented (1960) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Horror Classic
The actor who played Lloyd the bartender in The Shining (1980), and later Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner (1982) shows up in Tormented (1960) as this ferry driving beatnik character, he comes along to collect five dollars because a dead…