Two O’Clock Courage is a film noir about a man with amnesia and a dead body that is inexplicably tied to him. Running into a female cabbie, she decides to help the […]
Problems With Memory and Murder – Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
Framed… For Murder! – I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Whether one wants to call this film I Wake up Screaming or Hot Spot, it is a captivating little noir starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable and Carole Landis. In it, Mature and […]
Murder and Nightmares From Out of… – The Dark Past (1948)
William Holden plays a man on the run who takes a family hostage while Lee J. Cobb plays a psychoanalyst who means to help him. Holden is Al Walker – a killer […]
After Serving Her Time, She Was Still… – The Hunted (1948)
Preston Foster and Belita star in the 1948 film noir The Hunted, as directed by Jack Bernhard. It finds Foster as a police detective who even after sending his girlfriend to prison […]
Two Sides – The Dark Mirror (1946)
The Dark Mirror is a psychological thriller and film noir starring Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres, where she plays the role of twin sisters and he the psychiatrist interested in examining […]
A Gift or a Curse? – Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 motion picture based upon the novel by Cornell Woolrich, a tense film noir that finds Edward G. Robinson as a man who can see […]
Unable to Help Herself, She’s In… – Shock (1946)
Starring a young Vincent Price before he became a horror icon, Shock from 1946 is a fine little noir picture that finds our man as a doctor who has just murdered his […]
There is More to See Than Just the Falls in… – Niagara (1953)
With Niagara, Marilyn Monroe would receive top billing and would be do something she would never do again – be in a thriller and be a bad girl. Later roles like Bus […]
Who Is Going To Die Next? – The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)
The Girl in Black Stockings is a good noir film that finds a few murders taking place in a lodge up in Utah. Written by Richard H. Landau and Peter Godfrey and […]
In Life and Love – Roadblock (1951)
Roadblock is a nice little mystery/noir thriller that calls to mind shadows of Double Indemnity, though obviously not as good. It finds Charles McGraw as an insurance investigator who has a run-in […]
The Telltale Mind 