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.
Tag: 1950
‘Woman on the Run’ with Ann Sheridan on Paramount+ and more
Sheridan developed and produced this independent film noir, which was shot on location in San Francisco and makes great use of the city.
Dana Andrews goes ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ on Criterion Channel
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.
‘Night and the City’ with Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney on Criterion Channel
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.
‘Gun Crazy’ – a blast of film noir style
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.
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‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Amazon Prime and Criterion Channel
William Holden and Gloria Swanson star in this Gothic Hollywood noir, the darkest of Hollywood’s self-portraits, directed by Billy Wilder.
‘The Asphalt Jungle’ – the original heist classic
John Huston essentially created the heist film with this classic tale of a crew that undertakes a meticulously planned out jewelry robbery.
Humphrey Bogart ‘In a Lonely Place’ on Amazon Prime
In a Lonely Place (1950) hasn’t much to do with the Dorothy B. Hughes novel on which it was ostensibly based, beyond the title (one of the most evocative in noir history), the Los Angeles setting, and the murder of a young woman that puts our ostensible hero, volatile, hard-drinking Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey […]
John Garfield hits ‘The Breaking Point’ on Criterion Channel
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 […]
Barbara Stanwyck in ‘The Furies’ on Hulu
The Furies (1950), the second western from genre giant Anthony Mann (after Devil’s Doorway) and his first big-budget, large-canvas production after an apprenticeship in low-budget thrillers, is a genre hybrid: a psychological western by way of a Gothic melodrama, with a dark, shadowy style right out of Mann’s earlier film noirs. Barbara Stanwyck is Vance […]