richard-1's - Film Noir List
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In this inventively filmed detective story, Robert Montgomery (who also directs) plays Philip Marlowe and solves an entire mystery from the camera's point of view; when Marlowe takes a punch, the audience feels the hit. Based on Raymond Chandler's novel, the story follows Marlowe as he tries to track down the missing wife of a publisher. Audrey Totter plays the femme fatale who slinks into his office to hire him for the job. - Director:
- Robert Montgomery
- Cast:
- Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)Take This Woman / Black Irish
Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disabled husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth, Welles plays an innocent man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder.- Director:
- Orson Welles
- Cast:
- Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
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An ambitious but unscrupulous lawyer (John Garfield) works for the mob, and scents the prospect of a personal fortune when he helps concoct a plan that will merge all of New York City's numbers rackets into a single powerful and unbreakable operation. But one of them is run by his own brother (Thomas Gomez), who is much happier as an independent, mainly because it allows him to apply his own ethical standards to prevent innocent people from being corrupted by his shady activities. And it's the Cain-and-Abel clash between them that gives the film its tragic dimension. - Director:
- Abraham Polonsky
- Cast:
- John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor
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Journeyman boxer Stoker Thompson (Robert Ryan) thinks that he has one last good fight in him in order to get a payout and retire from the ring. His wife Julie (Audrey Trotter) pleads for him to quit whilst his manager Tiny (George Tobias) is so convinced that his man is going to lose that he has taken money from the mob in exchange for his man taking a 'dive'. Unaware that his manager has double-crossed him and that he will be a target for the mob if he wins, Stoker strains every sinew of his raw courage to knock out his opponent. - Director:
- Robert Wise
- Cast:
- Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
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