Dave Purvis takes pride in being unknown to the law, though famed among fellow crooks Read More »
Film-Noir
Scarlet Street (1945) Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. Read More »
The Maltese Falcon (1931) Roy Del Ruth, Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout Read More »
The General Died at Dawn (1936) Lewis Milestone, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff
In revolution-torn China, American mercenary O’Hara is entrusted with a perilous mission Read More »
Key Largo (1948) John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Frank McCloud travels to a run-down hotel on Key Largo to honor the memory of a friend who died bravely in his unit during WW II. Read More »
Unchained (1955) Hall Bartlett, Elroy ‘Crazylegs’ Hirsch, Barbara Hale, Chester Morris
A convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish his sentence Read More »
Split Second (1953) Dick Powell, Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
Sam Hurley, “Nation’s No. 1 killer” with a cold contempt for “heroes,” escapes prison with two companions Read More »
High Sierra (1941) Raoul Walsh, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. Read More »
The Big Tip Off (1955) Frank McDonald, Richard Conte, Constance Smith, Bruce Bennett
Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoriety by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities. Read More »
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) Howard W. Koch, Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
Near a small Utah town, visiting lawyer David Hewson finds the slashed body of party girl Marcia Morgan, his fellow tenant at Parry Lodge. Read More »
Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1958) Edward L. Cahn, Mamie Van Doren, Gerald Mohr, Lee Van Cleef
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. Read More »
Hell Drivers (1957) Cy Endfield, Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins
Joe “Tom” Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to start working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. Read More »
Female on the Beach (1955) Joseph Pevney, Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband’s beach house…the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell (or was pushed) from the cliff. Read More »
Sirocco (1951) Curtis Bernhardt, Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Märta Torén
In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. Read More »
I Walk Alone (1948) Byron Haskin, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner, Frankie’s former partner in bootlegging Read More »