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Has anyone seen this one? I watched it tonight, and I thought it was a pretty great little B-noir: fast-paced, well-acted, -plotted, -directed, -photographed, etc. I especially liked the Los Angeles dock hideout setting... and now I know there was a Wrigley Field in L.A. at one point. And William Talman was great as the main baddie. My only (mild) complaint is that Charles McGraw, who plays the homicide detective here, always seems more suited for the villain role to me: that hard, square face, the vaguely shifty eyes, the voice, etc. But overall, I really enjoyed this one. I also think it would make a great double-feature with Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (also featuring McGraw) from a couple of years later. A solid 8/10 for me.

P.S. Unlike the fun poster image above, this is in (glorious) black and white.

In our monthly film noir movie club, we just had a group discussion of Night and the City. I’m a fan, but many in the group was, at best, meh about it. They liked other classic noirs, like Double Indemnity and The Big Sleep, but this one, not so much. These are not all die-hard noir buffs, so I wonder…

1. Have other people encountered a similar reaction to Night and the City among people who aren’t as immersed in film noir as we are?
2. If so, what about this movie might be less generally appealing than other classic noirs?
3. As noir fans, how would you rate this film? (It’s high on my list, by the way.)

It’s an old, black and white film. Stars a female lead. In the beginning of the film I think her son dies in an accident. She leaves her husband, her parents, and her rural town. Moves to the city to “be somebody”. Starts working in a department store. Falls in with the wrong crowd and soon gets involved in organized crime. Theres this accountant character who she gets involved with. He’s initially an honest man but she brings him over into the underworld… that’s all I can remember besides the ending which would contain spoilers. Any ideas what this movie is?

I know it is one of the most common tropes in noir but for those of you with a sharp memory, would you be kind enough to mention not only the film, but at which scenes heat plays a part?

Probably 95% of the noir movies I watch is black and white. But you appreciate the beauty of those times when you switch to color 😍😍😍😍😍 Gene Tierney - Leave her to heaven (1945)

Saw this in many movies,. In many scenes, driver didn't bother to get into the car from the driver side which required them to circle around the car. Was this for the scene integrity or was something people used to do because of the bench seating in the front that made it easy to slide?

Hi, I saw this movie a few years ago and since then I've been trying to remember the name. It's an American film from the 1940s or 1950s, a black and white crime drama. A man works in a store and is married to his wife; they live in a poor apartment. She cheats on him with a rich man. He tries to save the marriage, even buying them a new house, but she gets tired of him and goes back to her lover. The man confronts the rich man but finds him dead. The police believe he is the suspect and a detective starts investigating and chasing him. He flees to another city, where he finds true love working in a hotel where he's hiding under a false identity. After a while, he returns to his hometown to solve the murder, but his cheating wife tries to frame him by setting up a trap in an apartment, placing the murder weapon under a cushion to get his fingerprints on it, but the detective discovers it and arrests her

Olá vi esse filme faz uns anos e desde então estou tentando lembrar o nome, é um filme americano, década de 1940 ou 1950, preto e branco de drama policial em que um homem trabalha em uma loja é casado com sua mulher, eles vivem em um apartamento pobre, ela o trai com um rico, ele tenta retomar o casamento,até adquiri uma casa nova para eles, mas ela se cansa dele e volta a morar com o amante, o homem vai brigar com o rico mas acha-o morto, a policia acredita que o homem é o suspeito e um detetive começa investigar e persegui-lo ,ele foge para outra cidade, nisso acaba encontrando o verdadeiro amor que trabalha em um hotel onde ele se esconde com uma identidade falsa, depois de um tempo volta para sua cidade natal com o objetivo de resolver o assassinato então a esposa traidora tenta incrimina-lo armado uma armadilha em um apartamento, colocando a arma do crime de baixo de uma almofada para coletar as digitais dele, mas o detetive descobre e prende a mulher.

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Hey everybody, I just want to recommend The Naked Edge. This was Gary Cooper's last film and he was quite sick with cancer while filming it. Dark, moody, great suspense all the way through, with an unexpected twist at the end. Fine film noir!

Like Wages of Fear (Men transport nitroglycerin over deadly roads), 3:10 to Yuma (Farmer escorts outlaw to a train) or High Noon (Sheriff awaits showdown as town abandons him). I guess John Wick could fit there as well, altough I’m looking for something more lower budgeted — films with very few characters.

“I hear the whistle blowing…”

An impossibly earnest and naive sailor and a world weary dance hall girl have until dawn to solve a murder!

In the course of a single night will they both find freedom, justice and maybe, just maybe love?

This a very fun movie loaded with interesting characters, well paced and a great example of an “all in one night” movie.

I’d watch a whole series of mysteries starring these two leads.

Jealousy, murder…figure skating?

The one time 16th best figure skater in the world Belita (she went by one name, like Oprah) is the object of desire in this laboriously paced love triangle potboiler between her much older impresario husband and a beyond-caddish rake on the make.

The titular suspense most notably rears its head as the films focus on skating, which much have seemed like a novelty in the 30s and 40s, takes up most of the films first half hour leaves the audience breathless over the question if anything is going to happen at all. Eventually there is murder, unacceptable social interactions, even more skating and the worst explanation of a natural disaster ever heard.

Which is the better Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake-paired movie? Why so?

It’s been 20 years since I saw this neo noir film. You can’t take your eyes off of Jan Fonda who earns her Oscar for the film in every scene. Donald Sutherland is likewise excellent. I’m so glad l revisited the movie. A.