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“Welles’s feverish, politically uneasy noir remains an outstanding achievement.... Released a little over a year after the cessation of fighting between the Allied Forces and Germany, The Stranger offers haunting insight into the fascist mind and never shies away from the reality…
"Absolutely assured in her creation of the bleak, noir atmosphere - whether in the claustrophobic confines of the car, or lost in the arid expanses of the desert - Lupino never relaxes the tension for one moment... Taut, tough, and…
"ONE OF THE 25 GREATEST NOIRS OF ALL TIME! Deeply perverse, and immensely enjoyable for the ways writer Dudley Nichols and Fritz Lang run circles around the Production Code." - Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir Alley A psychologically complex…
“A breakneck, almost berserk spin on the classic detective yarn” - Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir Alley How's this for a premise?: A mysterious stranger pours a toxin into a man's drink, and now the man has only a…
“Shadows and lies are the stars of The Big Combo, a spellbinding black-and-white chiaroscuro with the segmented texture of a spider's web" - Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine From the aching strains of its jazzy opening theme to a gunfight climax…
"Terse and tough, Kansas City Confidential is one of the great lean, mean B crime thrillers, with a bang-up opening, a deadly payoff and a shifting set of identities and alliances that keep pulling the rug from under our hero."…
“Beat the Devil went straight from box office flop to cult classic and has been called the first camp movie... The movie has above all effortless charm." - Roger Ebert A sun‑baked, off‑kilter caper starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by…
"The best film noir you have never seen!" - Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir Alley A lean, nervy slice of late‑period noir, Woman on the Run finds Ann Sheridan—who also produced the film herself, outside the strictures and sexism…
