Pamela disappears, and in true Hitchcock fashion, the police soon suspect Pat to be the elusive killer that they're searching for. Billy Wilder | Gross: Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Raymond Burr) who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him. A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames. Van Heflin, Edmund Goulding Alfred Hitchcock, ODD MAN OUT (1947): In this Brit Noir, an officer in the (unnamed) IRA (James Mason) is hunted through (unnamed) Belfast after a botched robbery. WWII nightmares, mixes up the "good" guy versus
James Whitmore. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. | | ridiculous to think that Night and the City is somehow 2.6%
Sterling Hayden, Stars: Director: Stars: | Jacques Tourneur, BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956): Produced and starring James Mason, this groundbreaking film deals with the previously unexplored subject of 1956-miracle drugs and their unpredictable side-effects. Stars: Marsha Hunt, . It's helmed by legendary noir director Anthony Mann and shot by Paul Vogel, the cinematographer responsible for Lady in the Lake's first person P.O.V. | Dir. (1988), Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on The Letter (1940), Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Forget To Change Your Will, Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Scene Of The Crime (1949), Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Dark Passage (1947), Woman On The Run (1950) -- (Movie Clip) There's Been A Murder. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. William Talman, Claire Trevor, 4.26 avg rating 436 ratings published 1998 4 editions. by Eddie Muller| May 15, 1998 4.8 out of 5 stars77 Paperback $40.35$40.35 Get it Tue, Mar 15- Thu, Mar 17 $3.99 shipping Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Relentlessly romantic optimistic Frank Borzage is the last guy you'd expect to turn out an effective film noir, but this was his sound era masterpiece, redemptive ending and all. Stars: FNF prez and Noir Alley host Eddie Muller said of the film's ending, "the climax of Brute Force displayed the most harrowing violence ever seen in movie theaters." | Howard Da Silva, 103 min Based loosely on one of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op stories, "The Farewell Murder". Mike Mazurki gives a standout performance as the mentally challenged and extremely physically powerful ex-con that hires Marlowe to find Velma. Director: Added bonus: John Ford Players Ward Bond and Olive Cary portray the murdered girl's parents. | Barbara Lawrence, Passed THE MAKING OF THE GRAND INQUISITOR, a behind-the-scenes documentary edited by Wayne Hess. Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery. was about time to post something "definitive.". | Robert Wise's best noir, hands
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Martin Milner, Passed Nancy Olson, Not Rated Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. shelved 8,478 times. An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning. Every Saturday, Noir Alley visits classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable, fatalistic dames they fall for. | | Gig Young, Frank Lovejoy, Hugh Marlowe, Votes: Anthony Mann city itself earns special honors for cinematic chutzpah. Must be his lucky day. Stars: Things don't go quite as figured. Eddie Muller is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). | Bonus Features: THE GRAND INQUISITOR (2008, 21 minutes). | In July, Running Press released a revised and expanded edition of Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, a painstakingly updated version of Muller's influential 1998 classic which has since become a sacred text to genre film lovers. Anthony Mann, MURDER, MY SWEET (1944): The film that graduated Dick Powell from romantic musical lead to noir tough guy. 103 min Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery. 92 min Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Saturday, November 12, 9:00 PM &
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He is the modern-day Dean of Film Noir. Felix E. Feist Edward Dmytryk, BERLIN EXPRESS (1948): A multinational group of travelers find themselves thrown together to thwart the assassination of a prominent pacifist scientist by defiant Nazis bent on destabilizing post-war Germany. In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. 47:31 47-Minute Listen Playlist Download Embed Eddie Muller hosts the TCM series 'Noir Alley.' A new expanded edition of his book, 'Dark City,' chronicles. Richard Conte, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Muller is a contemporary renaissance man. Dan Duryea, Ask almost anyone to name the man most associated with film noir, and Humphrey Bogart would win hands down. More Buying Choices$12.00(40 used & new offers) The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir by Foster Hirsch| Nov 25, 2008 4.7 out of 5 stars79 Paperback $16.53$16.53$24.99$24.99 Every Saturday, Noir Alley visits classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable, fatalistic dames they fall for. Fritz Lang, EXPERIMENT PERILOUS (1944): A chance meeting on a train with a stranger leads psychiatrist Huntington "Hunt" Brailey (George Brent) into the orbit of a beautiful married woman (Hedy Lamarr) whom he believes is in danger and whose husband (Paul Lukas) claims that she's insane. EdwardDmytryk, TOUCH OF EVIL (1958): Orson Welles' masterpiece about a narcotics agent (Charlton Heston) who unintentionally put his wife (Janet Leigh) in grave danger when he investigates a crooked cop (Orson Welles). and not all that exceptional to look at. Cathy O'Donnell, Noir City Festivals spread throughout the U.S. and audiences of over a thousand revelled in 35mm screenings, with guests like Arlene Dahl, Marie Windsor, Rhonda Fleming attending. | Of course, no one believes him except the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) who ruthlessly hunt him down. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Stars: Eddie Muller hosts the TCM series Noir Alley. Dir. Nicholas Ray | Mervyn LeRoy, POINT BLANK (1967): Existential neo-noir at its best. Dane Clark, Noir Alley host Eddie Muller s introduction and comments following Talk About A Stranger, 1952. Because our goofy culture loves to see everything ranked,
| Fritz Lang | Thirsty : 2015 Summer : A Conversation with Noir Film Czar Eddie Muller. Director: Who can he trust? Valentina Cortese, | Director: Based on the 1948 novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. Burt Lancaster, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. Director: A film noir every Saturday at Midnight & Sunday at 10am ET on TCM. | Edward Arnold, PG-13 Dir. Her lawyer (Lew Ayres) soon discovers the murdered man was the woman's lover. 87 min His drug dealer Nifty Louie (Darren McGavin) wants to get his hooks back into Frankie, but his love for Molly (Kim Novak) and his dreams of becoming a jazz drummer keep him on the straight and narrow. Eddie Muller earned that moniker as the world's foremost expert and preserver of film noir, the classic not-quite-a-genre of Hollywood movie that gave us shadowy alleys, flatfoots in. Dan Duryea, | | A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter. | To view this content, please use one of the following compatible browsers: Mau Mau Sex Sex Things don't go quite as figured. These elements lead us down the See more 44,751 people like this 57,762 people follow this Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on 711 Ocean Drive (1950) - Turner Classic Movies TCM Main Navigation Tyrone Power, Janet Leigh, Fred Zinnemann Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Pointless trivia: Naked Gun 33 1/3 borrowed the plot. However, the Charleses soon find McFey was surrounded by quite a few people who benefited from his death. Peggy Cummins, Jay C. Flippen, Passed | Gross: Eddie Muller picks the top 25 noir films that will stand the test of time. Claire Trevor, It does and the police quickly suspect him of McFey's murder. Walter Plunkett and Gile Steele received Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White for their work on the film. Director: Sterling Hayden, An expanded edition of his book, Dark City, chronicles film noir from the '40s and '50s. Gene Tierney, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Mary Astor, Shhhh . Not surprisingly, this creates tension between her and her husband Bob (Zachary Scott) who was away fighting the in The Pacific when she strayed. Stars: Gene Tierney, Helen Walker, Passed | Gross: Crime, Film-Noir, Romance. The Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller, walks us through the darkest shadows in Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley. Joseph H. Lewis | These are simply films that I have viewed and
His family doesn't know he just got out of San Quentin. An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp. Eddie has recently released a revised and expanded edition of his book, "Dark City: The . Stars: After his book came out in 1998, Eddie was invited to program a Noir Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, and the rest, as they say, is Noir history. Director: Dir. 68 min Obviously, this festival is a rousing success. | Edgar G. Ulmer William Talman, Stars: Jules Dassin The story transcends its noirish trappings, to reveal a fine drama about war time marriage and infidelity. John Berry, LA BTE HUMAINE (1938): In this French noir predecessor, a railroad engineer (Jean Gabin) enters an affair with his friend's amoral wife (Simone Simon) with disastrous results, of course. | $2.24M. Vince Edwards, Venetian blinds. on Facebook,
Director: An armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route. A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. this was as close as he got. Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Reed, Saturday, November 26, 9:30 PM &
Allyn Joslyn, Not Rated 68 min Stephen McNally, Passed 96 min A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. Lee Marvin stars as a wraith like criminal out to get his share of the loot from a robbery after his partner shots him, leaves him for dead and absconds both with all the money and his wife. Richard Conte, Gloria Swanson, John Frankenheimer, GASLIGHT (1944): A newlywed (Ingrid Bergman) fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion where her aunt was murdered ten years earlier. Orson Welles Director: Dir. | Director: Eddie Muller is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). | Robert Siodmak Apr 16, 2020 Me and my opening night date in our tuxes. 96 min Walter Brennan plays the drunken first mate and Hoagie Carmichael plays Bacall's accompanist. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. | Gloria Swanson, However, she soon starts to have her doubts. 157,636 Billy Wilder view his notes here: Stars: An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp. Jay C. Flippen, Approved Dir. Orson Welles, Byron Barr, Votes: | Noir Alley host Eddie Muller s introduction and comments following 711 Ocean Drive, 1950. better than Out of the Past. Download. Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan play a couple of GIs caught up in the case, one trying to clear the suspect and the other trying to frame him. | | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Based on a play by the ever-ponderous Clifford Odets. | 43 Eagleville Road, Tiverton, RI 02878. Eddie Muller (born October 15, 1958) is an American writer based in San Francisco. Not Rated Dir. The Schedule and Dates are shown in the notes, along with second or third showings being listed as well. A "classic" is in the
Gritty noir photography provided by Oscar winner William Daniels. Director: OUT OF THE PAST RKO, 1947. San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. Director: 94 min Edmund MacDonald, Votes: 2002 is now the fourth year of your film noir festival with the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre. Robert Wise Albert Dekker, Passed Director: Director: eye of the beholder anyway; to me there's only one way to
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A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. Stars: | its got Marie Windsor and William Tallman as lovers. | Gross: Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal Votes: 1,445 #20 7. Farley Granger, | Gross: | Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death. Humphrey Bogart, Janet Leigh, Along the way, he finds himself embroiled with a wealthy man's unscrupulous gold-digging wife (Claire Trevor) and the stepdaughter that despises her (Anne Shirley). Stars: An ex-convict and a woman fall in love, after she shoots her police Lt. boyfriend dead in self defense, and falsely leads him to believe that he did the shooting. Dir. Stars: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. Stars: Nicholas Ray John Boorman, Saturday, November 5, 9:00 PM &
97 min A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. Stars: Unfortunately, he becomes the prime suspect when somebody else kills his previously intended victim. Robert Aldrich, Call in sick and power down your phone, CROSSFIRE (1947): In this seminal noir, an upright district attorney (Robert Young) investigates a seemingly motiveless murder. | Gladys George, Van Heflin, Ray Teal, Passed Ricardo Montalban instead of Heston. Fred Zinnemann | | 95 min Gail Russell, Erich von Stroheim, Please check your local listings to confirm dates
HowardHawks, NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Foreign agents mistake suave and swinging advertising man Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) for a spy. | Noirchaelogist, Czar of noir, host of TCM's Noir Alley, founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation. you'll meet a dangerous stranger along the way. whatever title you want to refer to him by, Eddie Muller is simply the man. A war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw. | | Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery. | Sunday, November 27, 7:00 AM, DEATH OF A CYCLIST Muerte de un ciclista (1955): An adulterous couplea wealthy socialite and a university professorhit a cyclist on their way back from an illicit tryst. Burt Lancaster, Approved Claudia Drake, | | The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall. Raymond Chandler's detective and knight errant, Philip Marlowe's (Powell) search for a singer name Velma, leads him through a tangled web of blackmail and murder. Showing 30 distinct works. $0.02M, Approved Tell us what you think about this feature. Director: | Crime, Drama, Thriller. Except it's not heroin, it's Cobalt-60, a radioactive isotope, and his exposure to it will eventually kill him. ridiculous to think that. | Can he overcome his personal demons and connect with her? Katherine Warren, Passed Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty. 90 min Kirk Douglas, | Edgar G. Ulmer Damn near perfect. However, she soon starts to have her doubts. Joseph Calleia, Votes: $2.11M, Passed Katherine Warren, Approved 17,814 Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Dir. $3.60M, Not Rated Eddie Muller earned that moniker as the world's foremost expert and preserver of film noir, the classic not-quite-a-genre of Hollywood movie that gave us shadowy alleys, flatfoots in. sort by. Director: Billy Wilder Then Isabel winds up dead and Jessie falls under suspicion for the murder. by. Frank Lovejoy, However, she soon starts to have her doubts. 96 min | assess a film's greatnessis it still engrossing the
We also search for noir's future. 107 min When another couple (Angela Lansbury and Keenan Wynn) shows up, things get ugly, and she finds herself held captive in her own home. | | Stars: to PASSIONATE. Married Chris Hunter (Ann Sheridan) kills a man in self-defense. Ten" from the classic film noir era, so I figured it
Director: Director: Humphrey Bogart, ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939): Another fun outing with hard drinking husband and wife team Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) and their faithful companion Asta. | Dir. San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. because I am not one to apply academic criteria to art, popular
| Dir. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode. Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. In this episode, TCM Noir Alley host Eddie Muller joins the podcast to discuss his newly revised and expanded " Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir ," and to define what makes a classic noir . Alexander Mackendrick | Director: | Gross: Richard Widmark, Susan Harrison, John Dall, | | Tyrone Power, | | 97 min Eddie Muller is the host of TCM's Noir Alley and author of numerous books on film noir. William Holden, John Huston Join the conversation at #NoirAlley. Helen Walker, Not Rated | enjoyed multiple times, and expect to appreciate even more
It is our mission to find and preserve films in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged, and to . Director: Robert Wise 79 min | | Edward G. Robinson, 84 min Hugh Marlowe, Votes: | Robert Ryan, Director: 90 min Stars: Stars: Lurene Tuttle, | Gross: John Huston In a Lonely Place (1950) Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery 7.9 Rate A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. John Maxwell, 110 min Ann Savage, Director: | Nancy Olson, Passed Dir. Stars: Billy Wilder Louis Calhern, Mary Astor, A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fianc persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses. A horror-mystery tale written and directed by Eddie Muller. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Fred MacMurray, Edmund Goulding Director: Director: As he digs further the prime suspect (George Cooper) seems less and less likely to have done it and an ugly motivation begins to appear. Under all the visual razzle-dazzle
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| John Maxwell, Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir , and is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Dir. Coleen Gray, | John H. Auer sixth time you've seen it? Eddie Goes to Washington Explore The Shadowy History of Film Noir with Eddie Muller on Saturday, October 17, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. IrvingLerner, THE WINDOW (1949): A young boy (Bobby Driscoll) with a penchant for telling tall tales overhears a murder while sleeping alone on a fire escape. Robert Ryan (the laconic American) and Merle Oberon (trying a sketchy French accent) head a cast comprising representatives of each Allied Zone: Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States. Starring famed noir actress Marsha Hunt and Leah Dashe. $0.02M. Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, and co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival, Muller is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's film noir series of DVDs.Novelist James Ellroy has dubbed him "The Czar of Noir". 110 min It never gets stale. Tony Curtis, Director: Robert Siodmak | Alfred E. Green, ASHES AND DIAMONDS Popiol i diament (1958): Existential thriller tracking one night in the life of a young resistance fighter (Zbigniew Cybulski) plotting assassination. | Gladys George, Kathleen Turner plays a dissatisfied Florida wife who persuades a none-too-bright lawyer (William Hurt) to murder her wealthy husband. Edmond O'Brien, | Joseph Calleia, Votes: Charlton Heston, Stanley Kubrick | Lee J. Cobb, Ruth Roman, 100 min An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning. Sterling Hayden, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery. Stars: Morris Carnovsky, Passed Read notes Muller is a contemporary renaissance man. Often I'm asked to cite my "Top
Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty. 95 min And remember, I'll be seeing you in the shadows. From Julien Duvivier's French debut Panique and Seijin Suzuki's inventive Japanese yakuza film Branded to Kill to Jiri Weiss' Czech New Wave criminal romance 90 Degrees in the Shade and Helmut Kautner's West German post-war drama Black Gravel, this year's programming for Noir City is as . Muller is a contemporary renaissance man. Marsha Hunt, Director: Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames. "bad" guy premise to stunning effect, is beautifully
Dir. Peggy Cummins, Front Row Classics is about to take you on a journey through "Dark City" this week. Martin Milner, Passed We're thrilled to welcome back the "Czar of Noir" himself, Eddie Muller, to discuss one of our favorite genres. Coleen Gray, Farley Granger, If only her husband wasn't in the way. $5.72M, Passed the listing a sort of carnival barometer, ranging from INFATUATED
By Mark Yost, Chicago, IL, USA. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Eddie Muller is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Director: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller. It directly confronts lingering
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Published August 19, 2021 at 4:10 PM CDT. Dir. | No need to tell you that this won't end nicely. | "Double Indemnity" is one of the films we're going to hear about today from Eddie Muller, host of the Turner Classic Movies show "Noir Alley," where each Saturday night, he screens a film noir. Eve Arden plays Bob's worldly-wise cousin who gives him some much-needed tough love. MGM, 1949. Classic noir is usually defined as films made between 1941 and late 1950s. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. John H. Auer Joan Blondell, Joseph Cotten stars as the handsome stranger who aids her. THIEF (1981): In this shot-in-Chicago neo-noir classic, James Caan plays an ex-con safecracker still hoping to score the American Dream. Jules Dassin, WHITE HEAT (1949): "Top of the world, Ma!" | | Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir 7 Rate An ex-convict and a woman fall in love, after she shoots her police Lt. boyfriend dead in self defense, and falsely leads him to believe that he did the shooting. 82 min or otherwise. Eddie Muller, dubbed the "Czar of Noir" has written three books on film noir and hosts a weekly Noir film festival on Turner Classic Movies every weekend. Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.