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
THIS PLACE IS DANGEROUS. THE TIME RIGHT DEADLY. THE DRINKS ARE ON ME! Professional gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) gets embroiled in an elaborate scheme to get deported gangland boss Continue Reading
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
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
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
1952’s The Las Vegas Story, which screens at 6am on Saturday 26 November on BBC2, is a minor RKO gem starring Jane Russell as a singer returning to Vegas with Continue Reading
