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LAUREN BACALL

The Big Sleep




The Big Sleep
1946- Warner Home Video
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Private investigator Philip Marlowe is thrust into a world of drugs, sex, blackmail, and murder when he agrees to protect a rich man's reckless, uncontrollable daughter. Includes both the 1945 pre-released version and the 1946 theatrical version. …More

Dark Passage




Dark Passage
1947 - Warner Home Video
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A San Francisco art student hides a fugitive recovering from underworld plastic surgery. Directed by Delmer Daves. …More

Key Largo




Key Largo
1948- Warner Home Video
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A gangster holds a GI and others hostage in a run-down Florida Keys hotel. Directed by John Huston. Best supporting Oscar for Claire Trevor. …More

JOAN BENNETT

Scarlet Street




Scarlet Street
1945 - Kino International
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A box-office hit in its day (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is perhaps legendary director Fritz Lang's (M, Metropolis) finest American film.When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson -- Double Indemnity, Little Caesar) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett -- The Reckless Moment) from the rain slicked gutters of an eerily artificial backlot Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge …More

The Woman in the Window




The Woman in the Window
1944 - Tcfhe/MGM
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A sober professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder when his family goes away. Directed by Fritz Lang. …More

AVA GARDNER

The Killers




The Killers
1946 - Criterion Collection
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A sober professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder when his family goes away. Directed by Fritz Lang.

GLORIA GRAHAME

The Big Heat




The Big Heat
1953 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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A gun moll helps a detective hunt gangsters who have killed his wife. Directed by Fritz Lang. …More

In a Lonely Place




In a Lonely Place
1950 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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A bungalow neighbor alibis a boozing Hollywood screenwriter accused of murder. Directed by Nicholas Ray. …More

Sudden Fear




Sudden Fear
1952 - Kino Video
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A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.. …More

RITA HAYWORTH

Gilda




Gilda
1946 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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A Buenos Aires casino owner hires a gambler who once had an affair with his alluring wife. …More

The Lady from Shanghai




The Lady from Shanghai
1948 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Rita Hayworth plays the beautiful blonde femme fatale Rosalie Bannister, who weaves a murderous web of lies and deceit around a naive sailor played by Orson Welles in this film noir. …More

VERONICA LAKE

This Gun for Hire




This Gun for Hire
1942 - Universal Home Video
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A marked hit man flees with a nightclub singer and stops a fifth-column poison-gas plot. …More

BARBARA STANWYCK

Double Indemnity:




Double Indemnity:
1944 - Universal Home Video
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This crackling adaptation of James Cain's shady tale of an insurance man lured into murder was brilliantly cast with the usually nice guy MacMurray as the slick agent in love with calculating Stanwyck. …More

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers




The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946 - Gaiam Americas
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Martha and her husband, who saw her kill her aunt, fear a childhood friend saw her too. Directed by Lewis Milestone. …More

GENE TIERNEY





Laura
1944 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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An arrogant New York columnist taunts a detective obsessed with a slain woman's portrait. Directed by Otto Preminger. …More

Night and the City



Night and the City
1950 - Home Vision Entertainment
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Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition..

LANA TURNER

The Postman Always Rings Twice




The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 - Warner Home Video
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Adapted from James M. Cain's story, the film relolves around the destructive relationship of two lovers whose troubles mount after they do away with her husband. …More

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