Impact (1949)

Impact (1949) - IMDb: "A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy."

Stars: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn

"Wealthy businessman survives attempt by wife to have him killed, makes it look like she succeeded and starts a new life in small town as auto mechanic. Variation on idea elevated to noir importance by The Killers (1946), where victim of femme fatale tries to abandon the city and his past identity." - noir expert Spencer Selby

This movie is part of the collection: Film Noir

Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Keywords: pdmovies

Creative Commons license: Public Domain


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Too Late for Tears

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Too Late for Tears (1949) - IMDb: "Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and she is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder."

This is pure noir.

Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea 

Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy are a couple who receive a satchel full of money that was intended for someone else (Dan Duryea). He wants to turn the cash over to the authorities; she wants to keep it---no matter what the consequenses:

"Jane, Jane, what's happening to us---what's happening. The money sits down there in an old leather bag and yet it's tearing us apart. It's poison, Jane. It's changing you, it's changing both of us."

"Chances like this are never offered twice. This is it. I've been waiting for it---dreaming of it all my life, even when I was a kid."

This movie is part of the collection: Film Noir

Director: Byron Haskin
Production Company: Hunt Stromberg Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Language: English
Keywords: noir; suspense; murder; crime

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)

Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)

Dick Tracy battles the fiendish "Claw" in one of his most difficult cases.

IMDB: Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

Director: John Rawlins

Writers: Chester Gould (comic strip characters), Robert Stephen Brode (screenplay)

Stars: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher

This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Keywords: Dick Tracy; Crime; Detective

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) starring Boris Karloff

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

IMDB - Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

Director: John Rawlins

Writers: Robertson White (screenplay), Eric Taylor (screenplay) 

Stars: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne |

This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Keywords: Dick Tracy; Crime; Detective

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Dick Tracy Detective (1945)

Dick Tracy Detective (1945)
Dick must stop the mysterious killings of various people with no obvious connection.

This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films
IMDB info

Director: William A. Berke
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Keywords: Dick Tracy; Crime; Detective

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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The Stranger (1946) starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles

The Stranger (1946) starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin.  To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.

This movie is part of the collection: Film Noir

IMDB info

Director: Orson Welles
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Production Company: International Pictures/RKO
Sponsor: k-otic.com
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white
Keywords: Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller; pdmovies
Contact Information: www.k-otic.com

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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