Ernie Driscoll (John Payne) is an ex-fighter who came within seconds of winning the world
championship. He's now forced to eke out a living driving a cab. A basically decent guy, he has lots of people who care about him, ...
In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded
Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, ...
Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account
of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic ...
Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the
murder of a priest, the subsequent arrest and trial of a jobless drifter, and the efforts of young state's attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to ...
Cover-Up transfers the metropolitan film noir milieu to a small Midwestern town. Dennis O'Keefe plays
Sam Donovan, an insurance detective, investigating the suicide of a policy holder. All signs point to murder, but no one in the victim's hometown is ...
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and
Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped ...
On the run from the cops, bootleggers Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) and Noll Turner (Kirk
Douglas), find themselves racing up to an enormous roadblock. The two split up, agreeing that if one was caught, the other would operate their nightclub ...
This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer
Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph ...
