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The Red Houseis a 1947 Americanhorror film directed byDelmer Daves, and starringEdward G. Robinson,Lon McCallister,Judith Anderson,Rory Calhoun,Allene Roberts, andJulie London. Its plo t follows a young woman whose adoptive parents are concealing a secret involving an abandoned farmhouse located deep in the woods on their sprawling property. It is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Agnew Chamberlain. The screenplay is by director Delmer Davis andAlbert Maltz, uncredited. Plot: Handicapped farmer Pete Morgan and his sister Ellen live on an isolated farm with their adopted daughter, Meg. They keep to themselves and are viewed as mysterious by the nearby town. Now a teenager, Meg convinces Pete to hire one of her 12th-grade high school classmates, Nath Storm, to come help with chores on the farm. On the first evening, when it is time for him to go home, Nath says he is going to take a shortcut through the old woods. The woods are part of Pete's property and he forbids anyone from entering them. Pete becomes agitated, insisting the woods are dangerous and contain a haunted house which is painted red, and that Nath must stay out. After traveling through the woods in the dark, Nath returns spooked, after hearing moans and yells. However, a few days later, he is embarrassed at his cowardice and goes through the woods again after dark. Nath is struck from behind and knocked down into a stream. He returns to the farm believing that Pete hit him, but Meg and Ellen say Pete has been in the room with them since Nath left. Soon, both Nath and Meg become obsessed with searching for the mysterious "red house" and agree to go into the woods every Sunday, which is the one day Nath has some free time, to look for it. They have no luck. In the meantime, Meg begins to fall in love with Nath, but his jealous and shrewd girlfriend Tibby has other plans for him. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Pete has secretly given local handyman and petty thug Teller rights to hunt on the land, as long as he keeps everyone else off of the property. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #VintageHorrorFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Quicksandis a 1950 Americanfilm noirthat starsMickey RooneyandPeter Lorreand portrays a garage mechanic's descent into crime. It was directed byIrving Pichelshortly before he was included in theHollywood blacklist(which was instituted by theHouse Un-American Activities Committeeto block screenwriters with suspected Communist affiliation from obtaining employment). The film provided Rooney with an opportunity to playagainst type, performing in a role starkly different from his earlier role as the innocent "nice guy" inMGM's popularAndy Hardyfilm series. Plot: Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney), a young auto mechanic in California, "borrows" $20 ($215 today) from the cash register at his job to pay for a date with blondefemme fataleVera Novak (Jeanne Cagney), who works at a nearby diner. In a scheme to return the pilfered $20, Dan decides to pay only one dollar as adown paymentat a jewelry store for a $100 wristwatch ($1,076 today), a deal that requires him to sign a sales contract to buy the watch over time with regularinstallment payments. He then promptly goes to apawnshopwhere he hocks the watch for $30 cash ($323 today), using most of that money to cover the missing funds at the garage. However, the next day Brady is tracked down by an investigator who informs him that he has violated the installment contract by pawning a watch he does not legally own. The investigator tells him that if he does not pay the jewelry store the full $100 for the watch within 24 hours, he will be charged withgrand larceny, a crime punishable by three years in state prison. After unsuccessfully applying for apayday loanand attempting to use his car ascollateralfor another loan, a desperate Dan resorts tomugginga tipsy bar patron known for carrying large amounts of cash. Nick Dramoshag (Peter Lorre), the seedy owner of apenny arcadeonSanta Monica Pierand a man who has had his own intimate history with Vera, discovers evidence of Dan's mugging. Heblackmailsthe young mechanic, demanding a car from Dan's job in exchange for his silence. Dan steals the car, which he trades for the evidence from Dramoshag. Dan's morally lacking boss Oren Mackey (Art Smith) soon confronts Dan and says he knows that he stole the car. Mackey demands the return of the vehicle or $3,000 in cash ($32,270 today), or he will go to the police. Dan and Vera steal the month-end receipts from Dramoshag's arcade, obtaining $3,610 ($38,831 today). Dan expects to use the money to pay Mackey. Dan, however, feels entitled to half the money, so she buys herself amink coatfor $1,800 ($19,362 today). Once he learns what she has done, a furious Dan returns to the garage alone, where he offers Mackey $1,800 to settle their arrangement. Mackey takes the money, but picks up the phone to call the police. After Mackey pulls a gun, the two men struggle and Dan strangles his boss with the phone cord. Certain that the man is dead, Brady takes Dan's gun and returns to Vera to inform her of what he has done. He asks her to flee with him to Texas. She will not go, insisting that the authorities have no evidence against her. Disgusted by Vera's self-serving behavior, Dan storms out. Outside Vera's apartment, Dan's still-loyal but unappreciated former girlfriend Helen (Barbara Bates) waits in his car to talk with him. She had seen him earlier on the street and realized then that he was in trouble. She now decides to accompany Dan as they drive out of town to avoid his anticipated arrest for murder. After his car breaks down, Bradycarjacksasedan, which happens to be driven by a sympathetic lawyer (Taylor Holmes). Dan subsequently gets out of that car when they arrive atSanta Monica Pier. There, he tells Helen to remain with the lawyer as he carries out his new plan to escape to Mexico on a friend'scharter boat. He also assures Helen that he will send for her once he is safely resettled across the border. A few minutes later, the lawyer and Helen hear over the sedan's radio a news report that Mackey survived his injuries. They now drive back to the pier to find Dan and inform him that he is not a murderer. Meanwhile, police officers spot Dan there, wound him by gunfire in an ensuing chase, and take him into custody. Helen comforts Dan and vows to wait for him until he is released from prison. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Parole, Inc.is a 1948 AmericanFilm Noirfilm directed byAlfred Zeislerand featuringMichael O'Shea,Turhan Bey,Evelyn AnkersandVirginia Lee. Plot: The film opens with a scene ofFBIagent Richard Hendricks (Michael O'Shea) bedridden in a hospital bed, dictating the results of his investigation for a report to the California Governor. The dictation scenes are interrupted by longflashbackscenes showing how the investigation proceeded. After a number ofparolesgranted to dangerous career criminals, the California Governor and State Attorney General suspected corruption in the stateparole board. They called upon Hendricks to investigate and expose those involved. Hendricks decided to go undercover as an ex-convict wanting to buy a parole for a criminal partner currently in jail. He then proceeded to infiltrate the social circle of another recent parolee of dubious character, Harry Palmer, and ask him how to purchase a parole. However, the people operating the parole purchase ring were quite secretive and ready to take extreme measures to prevent their exposure. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Naked Kissis a 1964 Americanneo-noirmelodramafilm, written and directed bySamuel Fullerand starringConstance Towers,Anthony Eisley,Michael Dante, andVirginia Grey.[The film follows a formerprostitutewho attempts to assimilate in suburbia after fleeing herpimp, but finds that the small town to which she has relocated is not as picturesque as she had believed. It was Fuller's second film forAllied Artistsafter his 1963 filmShock Corridor Plot: Kelly is aprostitutewho arrives by bus in the small town of Grantville, just one more burg in a long string of quick stops on the run after being chased out of the big city by her formerpimp. She engages in a quick tryst with local police captain Griff, who then tells her to stay out of his town and refers her to acat-housejust across the state line. Instead, she decides to give up her illicit lifestyle, becoming a nurse at a hospital for disabled children. Griff doesn't trust reformed prostitutes, however, and continues trying to run her out of town. Kelly falls in love with J.L. Grant, the wealthy scion of the town's founding family, an urbane sophisticate, and Griff's best friend. After a dream-like courtship where even Kelly's admission of her past can't deter Grant, the two decide to marry. It is only after Kelly is able to finally convince Griff that she truly loves Grant and has given up prostitution for good that he agrees to be their best man. Shortly before the wedding, Kelly arrives at Grant's mansion, only to find him on the verge ofmolesting a small girl. As he grinningly tries to persuade her to marry him, arguing that she too is a deviant, the only one who can understand him, and that he loves her, Kelly kills him by striking him in the head with a phone receiver. Jailed, and under heavy interrogation from Griff, she must convince him and the town that she is telling the truth about Grant's death. Kelly tries to exonerate herself, but the little girl can not be located, and one disappointment follows another, as enemies old and new parade through the jailhouse to defame her. In despair, she is finally able to identify Grant's victim and prove her innocence. She is released, but, now notorious, has to leave town, boarding a bus to her next destination. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #NeoNoir Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Million Dollar Weekendis a 1948 Americannoirfilm directed by, and starring,Gene Raymond. Plot: Stockbroker Nicholas Lawrence (Gene Raymond) has grown tired of his tedious life in Los Angeles and decides one day to escape, stealing cash and securities from his company worth about a million dollars. He buys a plane ticket to Shanghai via Honolulu. Cynthia Strong (Osa Massen, credited as Stephanie Paull) has just attended her husband's funeral service. After the ceremony, she goes straight to the airport and buys a ticket. As Cynthia leans back in her seat, she is caught by surprise when a man she knows named Alan Marker (Francis Lederer) comes up to her and claims he saw her murder her husband. Marker wants half the life insurance money to keep his mouth shut, but Cynthia denies that she killed her husband. Marker tells her she has until one hour after the plane lands in Honolulu to decide if she will give him the money. Cynthia begs Nicholas, who is sitting close to her, for help, saying that the man she just talked to threatened her. Nicholas agrees to help, and pretends to be an acquaintance of Cynthia's when Marker comes back. Upon their arrival in Honolulu, it turns out they are all staying at the same hotel. Cynthia and Nicholas meet up again on the hotel terrace, while Marker sneaks into Nicholas' room and steals his briefcase. Cynthia and Nick talk about their respective attempts to flee from their lives. Soon, they are attracted to each other. Cynthia invites Nick to have dinner with her the next day. Nick has to catch his flight and must decline. When Nick returns to his room, he discovers someone has stolen his briefcase. He immediately suspects Cynthia and suspects she was working with Marker. Cynthia denies the accusation and helps Nick search for Marker, who is missing from the hotel. They eventually track him to the airport and also board his flight, which isen routeto San Francisco. On the plane, Marker shows the other two that he has a gun and confesses to stealing the briefcase. As they arrive in San Francisco and prepare to de-plane, Marker sees to it that Nick is caught by the customs officers, who suspect he is carrying illegal plant life. During the commotion, Marker is able to leave the airplane before Nick and Cynthia. Nick and Cynthia soon get out of the airport and start looking for Marker in the city's hotels. Nick tells Cynthia about the money in his briefcase, and she tells him about the insurance money she got when her husband died. She suffered many years of abuse from her husband, and one evening after the two of them had dinner with Marker, her husband tried to rape her and when she pushed him away he accidentally fell off their terrace. Cynthia reveals that Marker tried to blackmail and Nick believes every word she says. He claims to feel guilty about taking all his clients' money. They decide to return to Los Angeles and try to set things straight. They agree that if they manage to do so, they'll meet a month later in Honolulu. As Nick is sitting in the restaurant alone, a young woman comes in to buy a bottle of a certain Napoleon brandy, which happens to be exactly the brand that is Marker's favorite. Nick knows this, and tails the girl back to a boardinghouse, where he finds Marker. A fistfight ensues between Nick and Marker, but Nick wins and gets his briefcase back. He returns to Los Angeles. On Monday morning he is able to return the money to the company's safe before it would have been missed. A month later, Nick and Cynthia meet again in Honolulu, as agreed. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Open Secretis a 1948 Americanfilm noirdirected byJohn Reinhardt, starringJohn IrelandandJane Randolph. Plot: Newlyweds Paul Lester (Ireland) and his wife Nancy (Randolph) are invited to visit Paul's friend Ed Stevens. They arrive to find Stevens gone and a mysterious phone call gets Paul to the other end of town. While he's away, Nancy is assaulted by a would-be burglar. Paul thinks there's something more going on than a missing persons case or a burglary and tries to interest Police Detective Frontelli (Leonard) in looking into it, but Frontelli is initially skeptical. When Stevens turns up under the wheels of a truck along with evidence tying him to an earlier hit-and-run murder, Paul is certain that there's some kind of organized conspiracy afoot. What he finds is a town slowly coming under siege from a secret band of anti-Semitic thugs masquerading as a patriotic organization, with whom Stevens had been involved and tried to quit. Paul and Nancy's situation goes from bad to dangerous when they accidentally stumble upon evidence that could hang the murderers. Some of the music cues from the original soundtrack byHerschel Burke Gilbertwere re-used in Season One of the 1950s television seriesAdventures of Superman. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Man Who Cheated Himselfis a 1950 Americancrime filmnoirdirected byFelix E. Feistand starringLee J. Cobb,Jane WyattandJohn Dall. Plot: Wealthy socialite Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, Howard, finds a gun he's bought. She kills him with it in front of the new man in her life, Lt. Ed Cullen, a homicide detective with the San Francisco police. The twice-married Lois manages to manipulate Cullen into disposing of the murder weapon and moving the body. Cullen ends up assigned to investigate the case, assisted by kid brother Andy, who is new to the homicide division and delays his honeymoon to keep working on his first big case. The gun is found and used in another killing by a young punk, Nito Capa, and Cullen—with few options to save himself and his paramour Lois—tries to pin both crimes on him. However, kid brother Andy keeps connecting Ed to the first murder, catching him in a number of evasions and lies. In desperation, Ed knocks Andy out, ties and gags him, and calls Lois and tells her they need to flee. Police roadblocks seal off the city, but Andy has a hunch where Ed took Lois to hide, at the abandoned ruins of Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge where Andy and his brother played together when they were kids. Their escape plan almost works, but they are ultimately arrested. Outside the courtroom, Ed sees Lois affectionately offering to do anything for her lawyer if he can keep her from being convicted. Defeated, Ed offers her a cigarette and they share a final goodbye gaze. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Man in the Atticis a 1953mystery filmdirected byHugo Fregonese. It was released in the United States on December 23 byTwentieth Century Fox. The movie is based on the 1913 novelThe LodgerbyMarie Belloc Lowndes, which fictionalizes theJack the Ripperkillings, and was previously filmed byAlfred Hitchcock in 1927, byMaurice Elvey in 1932, byJohn Brahm in 1944, and subsequently byDavid Ondaatje in 2009. Plot: The story takes place inLondon, 1888. On the third night of the Jack the Ripper killings, Mr Slade, a research pathologist, arrives quite late at the home of Mr and Mrs Harley, looking to rent a room. Slade rents out a room and an attic, which he says he needs for his research work. Mrs Harley notices that Slade acts in a strange manner, for example turning several pictures of actresses to the wall, saying that he can feel their eyes on him. He also mentions that he is usually out late at night working, but he never explains what his research involves. Mrs Harley's niece, Lily Bonner, arrives to stay at the house shortly afterwards; she is a beautiful stage actress and singer, recently returned from a successful stage production in Paris. Slade leaves the house for the evening, wearing an Ulster coat and carrying a small black bag, and meets Lily before her opening night in London. At the theatre an old colleague of Lily's, Annie Rowley (who has fallen on hard times), goes to see her backstage, but she is later murdered by the Ripper, and Inspector Warwick, who is investigating the murders, informs Lily and tells her that the suspect was seen wearing an Ulster coat and a small black bag. The next morning Warwick goes to see Lily again to ask a few questions, and Slade appears and gives some unorthodox opinions regarding the Ripper and says that he feels the police will never catch him. Mrs Harley's suspicions are further aroused when she smells burning coming from Slade's attic room, and she is convinced that he is the killer when she discovers that Slade had been burning his black bag; however Mr Harley remains unconvinced. Lily is attracted to Slade, and he tells her that his mother was also an actress but also that, although she was beautiful, she was also evil and that he both loved and hated her. She behaved in an adulterous manner and his father became an alcoholic after she left him, and she ended her life as a 'woman of the streets' (i.e., a prostitute) and died on the streets inWhitechapel. Slade shows Lily a picture of his mother. Inspector Warwick then arrives to take Lily to theBlack Museum, and Slade decides to join them, much to Warwick's displeasure. At the Museum, Slade makes numerous derisive comments about the gruesome nature of the exhibits, although he seems to take a particular interest in the five pictures on the wall of the five Ripper victims, before again telling Warwick that the police will never catch the Ripper. That same evening, yet another woman is murdered and later Slade is seen washing his hands in the river. During the night, Lily is woken and goes downstairs to find Slade burning some items of clothing, including his Ulster coat, which appears to have blood stains on it, although Slade claims that he spilled some solution on the coat and it might be contaminated. Meanwhile Warwick checks out Slade's credentials at the University hospital, and is told that Slade is involved in research and works very late hours. Lily asks Slade to meet her backstage at the theatre that evening, but before that Warwick decides to see if Slade's right thumbprint matches one left by the Ripper at the scene of one of his crimes, and enlists Mr Harley's help to search Slade's room. Warwick discovers the picture of Slade's mother in a drawer, but Lily catches them and complains to Warwick that he is harassing an innocent man. Warwick later tries to match the fingerprint, but his assistant notices the picture of Slade's mother and realises that it is Anne Lawrence, the Ripper's first victim, whose picture is on the wall of the Museum. By this time Slade has gone to the theatre to see the show, but he observes all the lustful looks on the faces of many of the men in the audience as they watch Lily dancing, and becomes agitated, and when he goes to see her backstage he tells her that he hates other men looking at her in such a manner and begs her to go away with him somewhere, but when she resists he pulls a knife out of his pocket and prepares to cut her throat, but he cannot carry out the act, dropping the knife and escaping out of a window. The police, including Warwick, pursue Slade through Whitechapel, but Slade evades them and appears to drown himself in the river; however, despite Warwick and other officers searching for him in the river his body is not found and the possibility is left open that he may have escaped alive. 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The Limping Manis a 1953 Britishfilm noirdirected byCy Endfield(as Charles de Lautour) and starringLloyd Bridges,Moira ListerandLeslie Phillips.[1]The film was based on Anthony Verney's novelDeath on the Tidewayand was released in the United States byLippert Pictures. This film was previously thought to be in the public domain, but there is an active copyright held by Four Star Films, Inc. Plot: Former soldier Frank Prior arrives in London to visit a wartime girlfriend, whom he has not seen in six years. His plane's landing at the airport coincides with a fellow passenger being killed by asniper. Scotland Yardinspector Braddock and detective Cameron are assigned to investigate. The dead man, identified as Kendal Brown, is carrying forged documents as well as a photograph that leads them to Pauline French, an actress. Pauline is the woman Frank has come to see. She also happens to be an expert marksman with a rifle. After they kiss, Pauline tells Frank that she had tried unsuccessfully to notify him to delay his visit. An autographed picture of another actress, Helene Castle, is found in Kendal Brown's flat. The detectives learn that Helene is the victim's ex-wife. In the meantime, Frank spends a few hours with Pauline on her boat. When they later go to a pub, a limping man seems to menace and unnerve Pauline, who runs away. Pauline confesses to Frank that she once let Kendal Brown use her boat for a smuggling operation. He began blackmailing her with letters she wrote, which Helene now possesses. At the theatre, the limping man turns out to be George, the stage manager. But to everyone's shock, the late Kendal Brown turns up very much alive. The victim on the plane was a man he'd hired to impersonate him. After knocking the limping man unconscious, Kendal Brown ends up in a fistfight with Frank in the theatre's balcony. But as these events reach their climax, a huge surprise is revealed, one involving Frank and his fellow passengers from the plane. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Last Alarmis a 1940 Americancrime filmdirected byWilliam Westand starring veteran character actorJ. Farrell MacDonald. Plot: Captain Jim Hadley, fire chief, has his retirement dinner after 40 years in the service. The next day, time hangs very heavy on his hands so that he even chats to a brush salesman (who has a perfectElmer Fuddvoice). Bored, he later visits his old fire station, Fire Company No.7, and talks to the men there, who are called out on a fire. The Great Eastern Insurance Company is where Frank Rogers (who is interested in Hadley’s daughter Jane) works. There have been a number of fires lately and arson is suspected. This thought is echoed at the Arson Bureau where Lieutenant King, chased up by the mayor, tells Henderson and Roberts he wants results. They know it is an arsonist who uses time bombs and gasoline. The arsonist turns out to be the keeper of an antiques shop, which Joan visits. Jim is making plans for the future with Burt Stafford, who is due to retire soon. Burt is called out on a fire with the others and is very badly injured there. He dies in the hospital, with Jim standing beside him. The antiques man has called at the Hadley home to bring a salt and pepper set he had to do minor work on, which Joan had bought. She sees the gleam in his eyes when she lights a match. Jim joins the arson investigation at the bureau, having had some experience when he was in the fire brigade. Spectroscopic analysis of wood found at the scene of the last big fire reveals that part of the burnt time bomb box Jim found was maple wood, so he, Henderson and Roberts scour the city for the maker of the boxes and who they sold them to. At another big fire, Jim comes across a statue of Vulcan (the Roman god of fire) which the arsonist dropped, it being his inspiration. The arsonist gets it from Jim’s unlocked car where he put it. Mention of this statue later—and the fact that Frank and Joan saw it in the antique shop window—provide a strong lead so they get a search warrant. They do not find any bomb-making equipment, but Jim finds wood shavings which later analysis reveals to be the same wood as that used for the time bomb box. Jim and Frank go after the arsonist, who has lost his bureau tail. The arsonist goes to the basement of the Hadley house where he plants a time bomb. He goes upstairs and confronts Mrs. Hadley and Joan, and as Jim and Frank realize he may be back at their house—having been seen in the vicinity—the bomb goes off and the basement catches fire. The arsonist tells the women Jim should not have interfered in his work. The men bust in the door and while Frank escorts the women outside, Jim goes after the arsonist, who now babbling about being the god of fire. The arsonist falls down the basement steps into the burning basement and dies. Some time later there is another dinner in honor of Jim, who has got a new job—honorary fire chief of the city. The film contained footage from a number of large authentic fires, a fire station, and firemen rushing to the fires and fighting the fires. No acknowledgment was given to the fire service. The unnamed city was Los Angeles as it was filmed at Fire Station 27 in Hollywood. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Lady in the Death Houseis a 1944 American film directed bySteve Sekelyand starringJean ParkerandLionel Atwill. Plot: Mary Kirk Logan is led from her cell to the electric chair, to be "killed by the hand of the man I love." A psychologist and criminologist, Charles Finch, tells her story. They first meet in a bar when Mary's dress catches fire. Dr. Bradford, having drinks with Finch, helps extinguish the fire. He takes Mary home and they fall in love. Bradford is a scientist who hopes to develop a way to revive dead tissue. He works as an executioner for the state. Mary won't marry him unless he quits this profession. A blackmailer is killed in Mary's apartment and she is arrested and tried. Her teenaged sister Suzy is the key to the case. Finch gets her to identify the real killer, but a race against time begins to find the governor so he can stop the execution. Bradford holds off the warden and guards until Finch can save the day. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Johnny One-Eyeis a 1950film noircrime filmfrom a story byDamon Runyon, directed byRobert FloreystarringPat O'Brien,Wayne Morris,Dolores Moranand Gayle Reed. Plot: In Manhattan, former gangster turned legitimate businessman Martin Martin (Pat O'Brien) has become the target of a politically ambitious district attorney, who has offered immunity for Martin's former partner in crime Dane Cory in exchange for his testimony. After being informed about the deal and narrowly escaping arrest, Martin pays a visit to Cory to persuade him not to testify. The meeting ends up with a shootout, with Martin killing one of Cory's henchmen and being hit himself before fleeing. With his picture on newspaper front pages and a reward on his head, Martin decides to hide in an abandoned house. While recovering to prepare a final assault on Cory, he adopts an injured dog that strays into his hideout and names him Johnny One-Eye. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Inner Sanctumis a 1948 Americanfilm noirdirected byLew Landersbased on theSimon & Schusterbook series of the same name and theInner Sanctum Mysteryradio series. A previous film series of the show had been produced byUniversal Picturesuntil 1945. It is the first and only film of M.R.S. productions, the initials of Richard B. Morros, Samuel Rheiner and Walter Shenson. Plot: The film follows a murderer who is on the run and hiding out in a small town. As the story progresses, a boy who is sharing his room with the stranger realises he has witnessed the man killing a woman. The story begins on a train at night where an elegantly dressed woman (Eve Miller) meets another passenger, a mysterious stranger (Fritz Leiber, Sr.) She is fascinated when he is able to predict every shake and bump of the train, and every flickering moment of darkness, an instant before they occur, although he claims he has never ridden on this train before. He is evidently gifted with some sort of second sight. He offers to tell her a story about events that began at some unspecified time at the next station. The scene then shifts to acting out this narrative, which starts with Harold Dunlap (Charles Russell) inadvertently killing a woman with whom he has had a violent fight on the station platform. He places her body on the open rear end of a departing train and then goes in search of a boarding house where he can hide out for a time. There he encounters a young woman, Jean Maxwell (Mary Beth Hughes), with whom he appears to fall in love, and the young boy who saw him at the station. He attempts to silence the boy, but is revealed as the murderer when the boy is rescued. Resigned to his fate, Harold waits with Jean until the police arrive to arrest him. After the film returns to the present, it is revealed that the mysterious stranger has an immediate and compelling interest in telling the story, and warns the woman not to get off the train when it stops. Instead, she spots her former fiancé (Harold) and leaves the train, where they fight and he kills her, revealing that she was the murder victim of the stranger's story. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Hitch-Hikeris a 1953 Americanfilm noirco-written and directed byIda Lupino, starringEdmond O'Brien,William TalmanandFrank Lovejoy, about two friends taken hostage by ahitchhikerduring an automobile trip to Mexico. The Hitch-Hikerwas the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman. It was selected in 1998 for preservation in the United StatesNational Film Registryas being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. The film was a fictionalized version of theBilly Cookmurder spree. Plot: As the film begins, a man is shown hitchhiking and being picked up by a succession of people he subsequently robs and kills. A suspect, Emmett Myers (Talman), is publicized in newspaper headlines. Two friends, Roy Collins (O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Lovejoy) are driving insouthern Californiatoward a planned fishing trip in the Mexican town ofSan Felipeon theGulf of California. Just south ofMexicali, they pick up Myers, who pulls a gun andtakes them hostage. Myers forces them to journey overdirt roadsinto theBaja California PeninsulatowardSanta Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across theGulf of CaliforniatoGuaymas. Myers terrorizes and humiliates the two men, at one point forcing Bowen, standing a long distance away, to shoot a tin can out of Collins' hand. One night during their one attempt to escape, Collins hurts his ankle. When the car is damaged, Myers forces them to continue on foot despite Collins' injury. Myers ridicules the two men for missing opportunities to escape for fear the other might be killed. He boasts, "You can get anything at the end of a gun."[6] Police in the U.S. and Mexico are hunting Myers, and authorities know that he has abducted the two men, who hear this on the radio. They understand that their lives are in danger. To mislead Myers, the police purposely alter information to suggest they think he is still in the United States. Arriving at Santa Rosalía, Myers tries to conceal his identity by forcing Collins to wear his clothes. Discovering the regular ferry toGuaymashas burned, he hires a fishing boat. A local resident discovers his identity and contacts authorities, who are waiting at the pier. After a shootout and scuffle, Myers is arrested and Collins and Bowen are freed unharmed. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Hoodlumis a 1951 Americanfilm noircrime filmdirected byMax Nosseckand starringLawrence Tierney,Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan and Lisa Golm. Plot: Vincent Lubeck (Lawrence Tierney) is an habitual criminal from childhood, who has recently been released from prison on parole. He would not have gotten out had it not been for the pleas of his elderly mother. He gets a job working at his brother Johnny's gas station. He seduces Rosa, his brother's fiancee who hopes to reform him but can't resist his determined advances, which he makes in part to show her it's not so easy to be good in a bad world. Vincent becomes interested in the armored car that makes regular stops at the bank across the street. He romances Eileen, a beautiful independent-minded secretary at the bank, after the police detective who arrested him last time says she's out of his league. At first he's just interested in the challenge, but realizing she knows a lot about the bank's inner workings, he starts pumping her for information. She finds him fascinating, but is a lot tougher than Rosa. Vincent begins to plan a bank robbery, and to recruit men he knows from prison to pull the job with him. He shared a cell with a master bank job planner, and listened carefully to the man when he talked about how to make such an operation work. Rosa comes to Vincent (who has lost interest in her), begging him to marry her—he refuses, and she jumps off the roof to her death. The autopsy reveals she was pregnant, which Vincent's mother finds out about. Vincent comes up with a plan involving a fake funeral procession, allowing the gang to get past a police blockade. With the money in hand (leaving several dead guards behind), the other heisters turn on the ill-tempered domineering Vincent, whose arrogance and inability to understand other people's points of view and anticipate their reactions, prevent him from spotting the betrayal and heading it off. He's the only surviving member of the gang the police know about, due to his connection with the gas station, so they get away clean, to rob another day, splitting the money evenly between them. Vincent told them that as the planner, he deserved the biggest cut, but he ends up with nothing but a bump on his head, and anall-points bulletinout on him. In desperation, with no resources, he turns to Eileen, but she produces a small handgun, and orders him to leave, fearing he'll implicate her. His mother, now regretting her intervention on her son's behalf, curses him on her deathbed. Johnny, knowing now what happened to Rosa, takes him at gunpoint to a local dump (the film opens with a flash forward of them driving there)--but can't bring himself to kill Vincent. The police, who somehow managed to follow them there undetected, end up finishing the job. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Guilty of Treasonis a 1950 Americandrama filmdirected byFelix E. Feistand starringCharles Bickford,Bonita GranvilleandPaul Kelly. Also known by thealternative titleTreason, it is ananti-communistandanti-Sovietfilm about the story ofJózsef Mindszenty, aRoman CatholiccardinalfromHungary.Mindszenty spoke out against theNazioccupation of his country duringWorld War II, as well as the laterCommunist regime. Because of his opposition to the Soviet regime, Mindszenty was arrested and tortured. After his release, he took refuge in the US Embassy inBudapestfor many years, maintaining his support for the Hungarians who wanted an end to theRussian occupation. Synopsis: The film uses theframing deviceof a speech to members of theOverseas Press Clubof America by ajournalistwho has just returned from Budapest where he witnessed thetreasontrial of Mindszenty. He also tells the story of Stephanie Varna, a young teacher who decides to stake a moral stand against Communism despite her love for a Russian officer. The film was inspired by the bookAs We See Russiawritten by members of the Overseas Press Club. It was produced by the Anglo-American companyEagle-Lion.Art Directionwas by the German emigreRudi Feld. It was part of a cycle of anti-communist British and American films released in the late 1940s and early 1950s as theCold Warintensified. Mindszenty's story was portrayed again in the 1955 British filmThe Prisoner. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #VintageFullMovies Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery(also calledThe St. Louis Bank Robbery, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959heist film, directed byCharles Guggenheimand starringSteve McQueenas a college dropout hired to be thegetaway driverin a bank robbery. Based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank inSt. Louis, the film was shot on location in 1958. It featured some of the men and women from theSt. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, re-enacting their roles during the actual robbery attempt.[1]Steve McQueen was an unknown actor when filming began. Later in 1958 he had a breakout role as Josh Randall in the TV seriesWanted Dead or Aliveand gained national recognition. Plot: George Fowler (Steve McQueen), a former collegiate football star, is recruited for a bank robbery gang by Gino (David Clarke), the brother of George's estranged flame, Ann (Molly McCarthy). Gino is an ex-convict, cold and unstable. Although agreeing only to be the get-away driver, George is coerced deeper into the plot by the gang leader John Egan (Crahan Denton). Gino pressures George to reconnect with his sister Ann, in order to get a subsistence stake to tide the gang over until the robbery. The gang members seethe with mutual dislike and distrust. Seeing Gino leaving the gang's bank surveillance, Ann presses George and deduces that they plan a bank robbery. She attempts to derail the plot by scribbling a warning to George on the bank's window. But this is seen by the 4th gang member, Willy (a minion of John's from prison). John and Willy burst into George's and Gino's lodgings to track down the betrayal. Gino reveals his sister Ann's identity and past relationship with George. The gang force George to take them to Ann's apartment, where he is sent away. Gino also abandons Ann on John's orders. John hurls Ann to her death from the fire escape, playing out revenge for his abusive mother. Told that Willy will be the driver, George is forced to a role inside the bank. The next day, the robbers begin their heist. They neglected to bring a police-frequency scanner and are unaware that the bank had relocated a switchboard from the lobby, elements that foil key aspects of their plan. An employee triggers the silent alarm, and police swarm the bank exterior. John is shot while attempting escape behind a female hostage. Gino commits suicide in the basement vault. After briefly considering a battle with police, Willy flees, but is pursued. George initiates a panicky escape behind another female hostage, but stops when her husband offers himself in her stead. Having learned that Ann was killed, George tries to surrender his pistol to a bank customer, who pushes it back to the sobbing, broken George. He is dragged into a paddy wagon, and sees the world receding behind metal bars. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Gambler's Choiceis a 1944 film directed byFrank McDonaldand starringChester MorrisandNancy Kelly. Plot: In 1897, three children, Ross Hadley, Mike McGlennon and Mary Rogers, are brought before a judge for stealing a man's wallet. McGlennon and Rogers have no prior record, so they are released to their parents. Hadley, however, is sent to reform school. In 1911, Hadley quits working for casino owner Chappie Wilson to start his own business, financed by Fay Lawrence, the rich widow of abookie. To compete, Wilson hires a beautiful singer, Vi Parker, "the Garter Girl". When Hadley sees her perform, he recognizes her as Mary Rogers. He takes her to a police station, much to her confusion. There she is reunited with Lieutenant Mike McGlennon. Then Hadley takes them both to see his grand, brand-new gambling establishment. Hadley offers McGlennon a small share, but McGlennon is an honest cop. Hadley also offers "Vi" a job. She turns him down, but when Wilson and a henchman come to retrieve her, Hadley punches Wilson, and McGlennon takes care of the henchman, so she has to work for him. Lawrence is not happy about this arrangement and tries to fire her, but Hadley pays off her loan to him and kicks her out. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Guiltyis a 1947film noirdirected by John Reinhardt, based onCornell Woolrich's short story "Two Men in a Furnished Room". The film was produced by oil millionaireJack Wrather, the husband of lead actressBonita Granville. Plot: The film tells the story of two roommates, Mike Carr and Johnny Dixon. Johnny, who suffered a head injury during the war, meets a girl named Estelle Mitchell, and begins to date her. When he finds out she's dating other men around town he dumps her and starts dating her sweet twin sister, Linda. The story picks up when Mike goes into Tim McGinnis’ bar in New York to wait for Estelle, a woman he hasn't met since her twin sister Linda was murdered six months earlier. He sits down and starts having flashbacks of the events around Linda's death. Johnny, who once served together with Mike in the Army and was his roommate at this point in time, had frequent nervous breakdowns. Johnny and Linda were a couple, and they were very much in love, but the twin sister Estelle wanted Johnny for herself. Estelle was determined to break up the happy couple, but in the meantime she was seeing Mike, who had a hard time resisting the vampy Estelle. Mike only met Linda once, but in doing so realized that she was the sister he should have been putting his energy into catching, as she was the more innocently virtuous of the two twins. But the twin sisters both wanted Johnny, and one night they got into a fight over him, after which Linda went to see Johnny on her own. Estelle tries to intercept and get to Johnny's first. Mike sees Estelle arrive at Johnny's before Linda arrives and stops her from coming in between the two lovers. However, when Mike returns home a couple of hours later, Estelle telephones Mike at her mother's request to say that Linda never came home and has been reported missing. Mike finds Johnny, drunk and distraught. He begs Mike to verify his alibi and that he heard Linda whistle for a taxi and saw her leave. When the police arrive to the scene they find a buckle from Linda's trenchcoat on Johnny's apartment floor, and after finding Linda's body in the apartment building they take Johnny in for questioning. Mike passes by McGinniss' bar and finds another buckle outside the bathroom window. He goes to Johnny and mentions the possibility that Johnny's memory might have failed him the night of the murder. While they are talking, the police arrive to arrest Johnny and he panics. Mike helps his friend by letting him escape out the back. In order to persuade Mike to give Johnny up, police detective Heller takes Mike to the morgue to show him Linda's trashed body. Heller then recounts the horrible details of Linda's death: After being choked, Linda was pushed, still alive, into the chute of the trash incinerator, and when he was unable to fit her in the tight space, the murderer shoved her in and broke her neck. The murderer then pulled her out and put her in a barrel on the roof. Mike is disgusted by this, but still doesn't believe his friend murdered Linda. He convinces Johnny to come out of hiding and clear his name. As they arrive home, Estelle is waiting for them with a man called Alex Tremholt, who has been renting a room at the Mitchells' since the twins were young. While they are there, Mike hears a woman whistle for a taxi, and realizes that must be the same woman they heard the night of the murder. When Tremholt sees Johnny, he insists on calling the police to arrest him, but Johnny escapes once more. Detective Heller arrives and suggests Tremholt of having a long-standing, unrequited love for Estelle and of killing the innocent Linda, whom he mistook for Estelle, the object of his desire. With the truth being revealed, Mike hurries off to tell Johnny he is in the clear and just manages to stop him from hanging himself. Back in the present, Mike drags Estelle to his old apartment and insinuates that she committed the murder. When he enters the flat, however, Heller is waiting to arrest him. He reveals that Jake, the apartment janitor, recently found Linda's neck scarf in the incinerator chute with Mike's fingerprints all over it. It turns out that Mike killed Linda, believing she was Estelle. After telling Mike that Tremholt's arrest was only a trick, Heller accompanies Mike down the stairs and past Estelle into the night. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Shadowed, also known asThe Gloved Hand, is a 1946 Americanfilm noircrime filmdirected byJohn Sturgesand starringAnita Louise,Lloyd Corrigan, andRobert Scott. Plot: Salesman Fred J. Johnson manages to hit a hole-in-one as he plays golf one day, and he writes his initials and the date on the lucky ball. He swings at the same ball once more, but sends it into a ditch instead of towards the hole. When he goes to the ditch to get the ball, he finds a dead woman, as well, and next to the body lies a small package, which contains plates for forging dollar bills. Fred takes the package from the dead woman. The returning murderer and his wife find Fred's marked golf ball upon returning for the packet of plates, and suspect that a man with the initials F.J. has taken the package. Before leaving, the man raises his voice in the culvert, because he suspects the golfer is in hiding, and warns "F.J." not to go to the police with the package, threatening to kill him and his whole family if he does. Fred goes back to his family, and opens the package, finding the address to a print shop with the plates. He doesn't call the police, remembering the threat. Returning to their boss, Lefty, the couple are chastized for losing the package, and punishment is subtlely suggested by him whilst playing Patience,Solitaire: the "Boys won't like it"sic. The murder is all over the news the next day, and Fred discovers that his lucky charm is missing from the chain of his watch. His daughter Carol goes out on a date with a banker named Mark Bellaman, and his other daughter Ginny goes to the golf course with her young beau Lester Binkey, a budding criminologist. Examining the location where the body was found, she finds her father's lucky charm. Pretending to be a detective investigating the crime, the murderer returns to the golf club, and bullies a gardener into giving him a list of those who played the golf course the day before. He hears Ginny speak her name, and realizes she is Fred's daughter. He offers to drive her home to her father, saying he is an old friend of his. When Fred goes to send the plates to the police anonymously by mail, he is followed by Lefty, who is only prevented from seizing them because s policeman friend of Fred's just happens to stop and speak to him. Ginny is called in to speak to Lt. Braden about the murder, because she ran away when a policeman approached her and Lester at the golf course. This leads Braden to question Fred, and his suspicions are raised when Fred gives a contradictory account of Lester's conversation with him than the one Lester gave at the police station. Braden orders one of his men, Sellers, to tail Fred afterwards. Layer that night Ginny is kidnapped by Lefty and his gang. They tell Fred that she will be killed if he doesn't give them the plates. They agree on an exchange, but Fred won't give the plates away even after Ginny is returned safely. Tony, the murderer, pulls a gun on him, but his wife Edna panics and rushes to the window to scream for help. Tony shoots Edna in the back, and Fred manages to knock down Tony with a golf club. Confronting Lefty whilst holding the club, Fred warns him not to move by telling him how long he's been using them, so Lefty sits down, and waits for the police to arrive. In the papers the next day, Fred is mentioned as a hero who caught the murderer. The family is reunited in happiness. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Shadow Returnsis a 1946 Americancomedycrime filmdirected byPhil Rosenand starringKane Richmond,Barbara ReadandTom Dugan. It features the pulp characterThe Shadow, already a popular hero of novels and a radio show. It was the first in a series of three films released byMonogramin 1946 starring Richmond in the role. Plot: Private detectiveLamont Cranston steps in to solve a murder for the police with the assistance of hisalter egoThe Shadow. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #Comedydrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

For You I Dieis a 1947 Americanfilm noirdirected byJohn Reinhardtand starringCathy Downs,Paul Langton,Mischa AuerandRoman Bohnen. Plot: Forced to participate in a prison break, a convict on the run holes up at a roadside diner. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Fear in the Nightis an American 1947film noircrime filmdirected byMaxwell Shane, starringPaul KellyandDeForest Kelley(in his film debut). It is based on theCornell Woolrichstory "And So to Death" (retitled '"Nightmare" in 1943). Woolrich is credited under pen name William Irish.The film was remade by the same director in 1956 with the titleNightmarethis time starringEdward G. Robinsonplaying the cop andKevin McCarthy. Plot: Bank teller Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) dreams that he stabs a man in an octagonal room of mirrors and locks the body in a closet. When he wakes up, he discovers marks on his throat, a strange key and a button in his pocket, and blood on his cuff. Cliff Herlihy (Paul Kelly), his police officer brother-in-law, tries to convince him it was just a dream. A few days later, while trying to find cover from the rain, the pair finds themselves taking shelter in the strange house from Vince's dream, which is owned by a Mr. and Mrs. Belknap. They discover that the police found two bodies in the house, one in the mirrored room and one run over in the driveway. Mrs. Belknap, who was run over by a car, gave the police a description matching Vince before she died. At first Vince is hopeful that he is innocent because he does not know how to drive, but he recognizes the victims from his dream. Overcome with remorse, he attempts suicide, but is rescued by Cliff. The detective uncovers clues that point to an evil hypnotist (Robert Emmett Keane) manipulating Vince. They realize that the hypnotist is actually Mr. Belknap in disguise, and they try to trap him by pretending that Vince wants hush money. Belknap puts Vince under hypnosis and tries to get him to drown himself. Cliff rescues him from the lake and Mr. Belknap is killed in a car accident as he is trying to evade the police. It is implied that Vince will be acquitted of all charges since he killed the man in the mirrored room in self-defense. Source – Wikipedia Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Five Minutes to Liveis a 1961Americanneo-noir filmcrime filmdirected by Bill Karn (1913-1966). It was re-titledDoor-to-Door Maniacfor anAmerican International Picturesre-release in 1966. The film starsJohnny Cash, who wrote and sang the title song, andCay Forrester, who wrote the screenplay and whose husband, Ludlow Flower, produced. Five Minutes to Livewas one of only two theatrical film roles Cash performed on-screen in his career (while he appeared inThe Road to Nashvillesix years later, it was as himself in a musical;A Gunfight, ten years later, was the other); he would appear in several made-for-television filmsand do some voice-over work in film later in his career. Plot: Fred sits in a dark room, detailing his most recent bank robbery. He talks about how he teamed up with hardened criminal Johnny Cabot to execute his plan. Cabot is about to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. He holds her until he receives a call from Fred, informing him that they have the ransom money. Cabot watches the Wilson house as the husband leaves for work, and their son heads off to school. Posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor, Cabot talks his way into the house, and takes Nancy Wilson hostage. At the bank, Fred enters vice president Ken Wilson's office, and hands him a check for $70,000, informing Wilson that he will withdraw the funds to cover the ransom or his wife will die. He tells Wilson to call home for proof that Nancy is being held hostage, then informs him that if he does not call Cabot back in five minutes, Mrs. Wilson will die. Wilson surprisingly responds that he has been planning to leave his wife anyway, and runs off to Las Vegas with his mistress, Ellen. He tells Fred that he will be doing him a favor by killing his wife. Fred does not believe that Wilson will let his wife die. He is proven correct, as time ticks by, when Wilson finally cracks and agrees to pay the ransom. Fred calls Cabot, and starts the clock over again. After the five minutes have passed, Fred works on Wilson to hurry. Meanwhile, at the Wilson house, Cabot is enjoying terrorizing his hostage. He begins forcing her to listen to his songs about her impending demise, shooting at her and making sexual advances toward her. Back at the bank, Fred has been taken down by the police, who arrived after someone tripped the silent alarm. As a result, Cabot starts to become nervous, having not received his expected call from Fred. Suddenly, Little Bobby comes in, home for lunch. The police arrive outside the house. In a panic, Cabot grabs Bobby and runs for it, running right into police gunfire. Bobby pretends as though he has been shot in order to encourage Cabot to put him down. After apparently being very upset by the accidental shooting of the young boy, Cabot fires back, and is killed by police. Nancy runs outside to find her son, still alive and well. The film ends with Fred finishing his story to the police, then Mr. Wilson driving to Las Vegas, but with his wife, not his mistress. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #CrimeFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Dangerous Blondesis a 1943 Americancomedy filmdirected byLeigh Jasonand written byRichard FlournoyandJack Henley.The film starsAllyn JoslynandEvelyn Keyes, and was released byColumbia Picturesin September 1943. Alternate titles for this film wereReckless LadyandThe Case of the Dangerous Blondes.[1]A review inVanity Fairreview characterized the film as a "laugh-packed session here via the antics of Allyn Joslyn and Evelyn Keyes. Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn), a crime fiction writer, and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes) are approached by Jane's friend, Julie Taylor (Anita Louise). Julie works for fashion photographer Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe), and she believes the studio is being stalked by a murderer. Soon after, a wealthy socialite, Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes), is murdered during a photo session. The police become involved and the investigation takes its course.[1] Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeNoir #VintageconnoisseurPresents #Comedydrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS