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

‘Sunset Boulevard’ – Ready for her close-up on Paramount+

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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.

‘La Ronde’ – love is a dance on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Max Ophuls directs this delicate, graceful romantic classic, a celebration of love and desire and passion and folly through the course of lovers as they change partners and continue the dance of romance.

Lee J. Cobb is ‘The Man Who Cheated Himself’ – free on Kanopy

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Lee J. Cobb is a Homicide Detective having an affair with married socialite Jane Wyatt when a murder tangles them both in a cover-up that unravels in this forgotten film noir.

‘Woman on the Run’ with Ann Sheridan free on Kanopy

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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.

‘Panic in the Streets’ – Richard Widmark vs. epidemic on Criterion Channel

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Elia Kazan directs this film noir about the search for a killer in New Orleans who is infected with bubonic plague. Paul Douglas, Jack Palance, and Zero Mostel costar.

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 second screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘To Have and Have Not’ adds a post-war setting and a working class angle to the story. Patrical Neal costars and Micheal Curtiz directs.

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‘The Asphalt Jungle’ – the original heist classic on Criterion Channel

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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.

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