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Laura (1944) | Still the greatest noir of them all!

Nominated for four Oscars and winning one, this is the ultimate noir. Dark and mysterious, stylishly wicked and enticingly captivating, 1944’s Laura is a glamorous murder mystery and a tangled Continue Reading

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Posted On : 15th January 2019 Published By : The Curator
The Long Night (1947)
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The Long Night (1947) | COMING AT YOU … in a blast of terrific drama!

Director Anatole Litvak is best-known for the 1940s classics Sorry, Wrong Number and The Snake Pit, but he also helmed and co-produced the underrated romantic film noir, The Long Night Continue Reading

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Posted On : 28th May 2018 Published By : The Curator
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The Web (1947) | It’s a double-cross – a triple murder, with kisses for me!

When self-confident attorney Bob Regan (Edmond O’Brien) is hired as a bodyguard to wealthy industrialist Andrew Colby (Vincent Price), he kills a mysterious intruder (Fritz Leiber Sr) on his first Continue Reading

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Posted On : 25th May 2017 Published By : The Curator
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While the City Sleeps (1956) | When Vincent Price turned press tycoon in Fritz Lang’s most underrated movie

A killer is on the loose and smarmy media tycoon Vincent Price makes catching him the passport to a key job in his organisation… Ambitious rivals George Sanders and Thomas Continue Reading

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Posted On : 16th May 2017 Published By : The Curator
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Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) | When Steve Martin crossed Vincent Price

Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) is the quintessential private eye. A student of Philip Marlowe, the laconic gumshoe is hired by Juliet Forrest (played suprisingly well by Rachel Ward) to investigate Continue Reading

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Posted On : 15th April 2017 Published By : The Curator
The Bribe (1949)
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The Bribe (1949) | Did you know Vincent Price’s pyrotechnic film noir became a Steve Martin spoof?

Being a master of light-hearted musicals and comedies for MGM throughout the 1930s, director Robert Leonard was a bizarre choice for the studio’s 1949 thriller The Bribe, which Carl Reiner’s Continue Reading

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Posted On : 3rd February 2017 Published By : The Curator

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