Classic Film Noir
Here be those darkly vexing offerings one should include in their diet periodically. Film Noir (literally 'black film or cinema') was coined by French film critics (first by Frank Nino in 1946) who noticed the trend of how 'dark' and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France following the war. It was a style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1965.
With the list below Alice has included many "Contempory Noirs", making browsing that much more "coloured".....
Right: Orson Wells stars and directs "A Touch Of Evil".
Crime Wave / Decoy (1954)
Director: Andre De Toth, Jack Bernhard
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Edward Norris, Jean Gillie, Charles Bronson
Film noir double feature features the underrated noir thriller 'Crime Wave' (1954), about a hardboiled LA cop out to get a 'reformed' ex-con who was l... Read more
Sherlock Holmes: Collectors' Edition (1954)
7.6/10
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Starring: Ronald Howard, H. Marion Crawford , Christopher Lee
Ronald Howard reprises his acclaimed BBC radio role as Sherlock Holmes for the only American serial version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detecti... Read more
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Shoeless Engineer (1954)
7.6/10
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Starring: Ronald Howard, H. Marion Crawford
This series was filmed in France and produced by Sheldon Reynolds, who also directed most of the episodes. Some of the stories were based on Arthur Co... Read more
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Thistle Killer (1954)
7.6/10
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Starring: Ronald Howard, H. Marion Crawford
This series was filmed in France and produced by Sheldon Reynolds, who also directed most of the episodes. Some of the stories were based on Arthur Co... Read more
Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Imposter Mystery (1954)
7.6/10
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Starring: Ronald Howard, H. Marion Crawford
This series was filmed in France and produced by Sheldon Reynolds, who also directed most of the episodes. Some of the stories were based on Arthur Co... Read more
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Texas Cowgirl (1954)
7.6/10
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Starring: Ronald Howard, H. Marion Crawford
These short films listed below, made for television where filmed in France in the mid 1950s and feature Ronald Howard, the son of the actor Leslie How... Read more
Dial M for Murder (1954)
8.2/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Alfred Hitchcock's screen version of Frederick Knott's stage hit 'Dial M for Murder' is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense casting Grace Kelly, Ra... Read more
Suddenly (1954)
6.8/10
Director: Lewis Allen
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
Grand entertainment with Frank Sinatra perfectly cast as a leader of a gang of assassins out to kill the President of the United States. With Sterling... Read more
Suddenly (Blu-ray) (1954)
6.8/10
Director: Lewis Allen
Starring: Frank Sinatra, James Gleason, Sterling Hayden
Grand entertainment with Frank Sinatra perfectly cast as a leader of a gang of assassins out to kill the President of the United States. With Sterling... Read more
Pickup on South Street (1953)
7.8/10
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
A tough, brutal and well-made film, starring Richard Widmark as a petty thief who inadvertently acquires a top secret microfilm and becomes a target f... Read more