Raoul Walsh directs this refreshingly mature drama of an independent woman in the post-war Los Angeles culture of swanky nightclubs and dive bars and the seedy, scheming characters who frequent them.
Howard Hawks directs the great 1946 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler classic, stirring up the romantic heat in the hardboiled mystery set in the corruption of the Los Angeles underworld.
Classic film icons Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck star together for the first and only time in this film noir with an edge of artistic psychosis.
Director Michael Curtiz brings noir sensibility to the James Cain melodrama and directs Crawford to her only Academy Award in this superb Hollywood classic.