Film Noir Archive

  • Pint-sized film noir icon Alan Ladd (This Gun For Hire, The Blue Dahlia) returns to familiar territory in this adaptation of a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Ladd plays Ed Beaumont,...0August 28, 2009

    The Glass Key (1942)

    Pint-sized film noir icon Alan Ladd (This Gun For Hire, The Blue Dahlia) returns to familiar territory in this adaptation of a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Ladd plays Ed Beaumont,…

  • You don’t have to go any further than the opening credits of this one to know that it’s one of the titans of film noir. Based on a novel written...0July 26, 2008

    Double Indemnity (1944)

    You don’t have to go any further than the opening credits of this one to know that it’s one of the titans of film noir. Based on a novel written…

  • D.O.A. takes on its subject matter with a stark straightforwardness that literally shows the protagonist as a walking dead man. Frank Bigelow gets poisoned by some slow acting stuff that...0July 19, 2008

    D.O.A. (1950)

    D.O.A. takes on its subject matter with a stark straightforwardness that literally shows the protagonist as a walking dead man. Frank Bigelow gets poisoned by some slow acting stuff that…

  • Humphrey Bogart plays recently returned war vet Rip Murdock. He’s searching for the truth behind the death of Johnny, his best friend from the service. Rip knows that Johnny was...0June 22, 2008

    Dead Reckoning (1947)

    Humphrey Bogart plays recently returned war vet Rip Murdock. He’s searching for the truth behind the death of Johnny, his best friend from the service. Rip knows that Johnny was…

  • Robert Siodmak, who warmed up his film noir chops with Phantom Lady, hits his stride in this crime melodrama starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Dan Duryea. Lancaster plays a...0June 8, 2008

    Criss Cross (1949)

    Robert Siodmak, who warmed up his film noir chops with Phantom Lady, hits his stride in this crime melodrama starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Dan Duryea. Lancaster plays a…

  • Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity) and Claire Trevor both play undercover agents who go down to Mexico to infiltrate a drug smuggling operation. They arrive separately and unaware of one another’s...0May 21, 2008

    Borderline (1950)

    Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity) and Claire Trevor both play undercover agents who go down to Mexico to infiltrate a drug smuggling operation. They arrive separately and unaware of one another’s…

  • You would think that this has all the makings of a film noir to end film noirs, what with the teaming up of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake and a...0May 18, 2008

    The Blue Dahlia (1946)

    You would think that this has all the makings of a film noir to end film noirs, what with the teaming up of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake and a…

  • The Big Combo desperately wants to be a dark and violent film noir, but it merely succeeds in being a rather unmemorable crime melodrama, though it is fairly violent.1May 10, 2008

    The Big Combo (1955)

    The Big Combo desperately wants to be a dark and violent film noir, but it merely succeeds in being a rather unmemorable crime melodrama, though it is fairly violent.

  • I was watching this prepared for a movie about a man wrongfully accused, racing against time to clear himself despite the plot twists and backstabbing that all the characters with...0May 10, 2008

    The Big Clock (1948)

    I was watching this prepared for a movie about a man wrongfully accused, racing against time to clear himself despite the plot twists and backstabbing that all the characters with…

  • Black Angel is based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich whose works have provided material for movies as diverse as the classic Rear Window to the atom bomb with Antonio...0May 10, 2008

    Black Angel (1946)

    Black Angel is based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich whose works have provided material for movies as diverse as the classic Rear Window to the atom bomb with Antonio…