1950 – Stream On Demand

Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe star in the film noir from John Huston

‘The Asphalt Jungle’ – the original heist classic on HBO Max

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John Huston essentially created the heist film with this classic tale of a crew that undertakes a meticulously planned out jewelry robbery.

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame star, Nicholas Ray directs from the Dorothy B. Hughes novel

Humphrey Bogart is ‘In a Lonely Place’ on Prime Video

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Bogart and Gloria Grahame both deliver career best performances in Nicholas Ray’s devastating film noir without guns and gangsters.

The cast of 'All About Eve' - Gary Merrill, Bette Davis, George Sanders, Anne Baxter, Hugh Marlowe, and Celeste Holm.

The essentials: ‘All About Eve’ on Criterion Channel

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Bette Davis and Anne Baxter star in Joseph L. Mankeiwicz’s witty, acerbic classic that won six Academy Awards.

Last chance: Dana Andrews goes ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ on Criterion Channel

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Otto Preminger’s 1950 noir reunites Andrews and Gene Tierney, the stars of Laura, for a more streetwise cop drama with a bare-knuckle attitude.

Last chance: ‘Night and the City’ with Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney on Criterion Channel

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Widmark plays one of cinema’s great heels in Jules Dassin’s superb film noir set in the London underworld of hustlers and gangsters after dark.

‘Try and Get Me!’ – lynch mob noir on Criterion Channel

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Frank Lovejoy and Lloyd Bridges star in Cy Enfield’s incendiary film noir, which turns into one of the most caustic cinematic social commentaries of anxiety and fear.

‘Woman on the Run’ with Ann Sheridan on Paramount+ and more

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Sheridan developed and produced this independent film noir, which was shot on location in San Francisco and makes great use of the city.

‘Gun Crazy’ – a blast of film noir style

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This 1950 film noir classic is a masterpiece of style and a blast of cinematic ecstasy on a budget barely bigger than a B movie.

TITLE: SUNSET BOULEVARD PERS: VON STROHEIM, ERICH / SWANSON, GLORIA YEAR: 1950 DIR: WILDER, BILLY REF: SUN025AL CREDIT: [ THE KOBAL COLLECTION / PARAMOUNT ]

‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Amazon Prime and Criterion Channel

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William Holden and Gloria Swanson star in this Gothic Hollywood noir, the darkest of Hollywood’s self-portraits, directed by Billy Wilder.

Patricia Neal, John Garfield, and Juano Hernandez in a film by Michael Curtiz

John Garfield hits ‘The Breaking Point’ on Criterion Channel

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The Breaking Point (1950), the second of three big screen adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, stars John Garfield as Harry Morgan, the role that Humphrey Bogart played in the original. The Howard Hawks film took great liberties with Hemingway’s story. This version is more faithful but takes its own liberties. Harry […]