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An opening sequence features Frank Bigelow walking through the long hallway of a police station to report his own murder. From here to the end, the story is told in flashback. Bigelow is a hard-driving accountant and notary public in Banning, California, who decides to escape for a fun vacation in San Francisco. At the hotel, he is invited to join a group of conventioneers for a night out. He ends up at a nightclub where, unnoticed, a stranger swaps his drink for another one. The next morning, he feels extremely ill. Doctors determine that he swallowed a poison, "luminous toxin," for which there is no antidote. With only days to live, Bigelow embarks on a desperate search to discover the motive for his poisoning. A call to his secretary Paula provides a possible lead: a Eugene Philips has been urgently trying to contact him. Bigelow travels to Philips' import-export company, meeting Halliday, the company comptroller, who says that Philips has committed suicide. Bigelow locates Eugene Philips' widow and brother Stanley Philips. Months earlier, Eugene had purchased iridium, a "luminous toxin", which had been stolen by a criminal named Majak. The seller was a George Reynolds (aka Raymond Rakubian), Majak's nephew. As a result of this illegal sale/purchase transaction, Eugene Philips faced criminal charges. The bill of sale would have cleared Eugene, but has gone missing -- and that document had been notarized by Bigelow himself. He learns that Reynolds/Rakubian is now dead. He realizes that someone seems intent on eliminating all evidence of this sale. That someone turns out, in a plot twist, to be Halliday. Stanley Phillips -- who has now been poisoned -- reveals that Eugene discovered that his wife and Halliday were having an affair. Mrs. Philips affirms that during a confrontation that turned violent, Halliday threw Eugene over a balcony. To make it look like suicide, the pair insisted that Eugene had killed himself over his legal troubles. When they discovered that there was exonerating evidence of his innocence in the notarized iridium bill of sale, Halliday began disposing of anyone knowing about the document, and that led to Bigelow. In the final scene, Bigelow tracks Halliday to the Philips company and finds him wearing the same distinctive coat and scarf as the man who switched the drinks. Halliday draws a gun and fires first, but Bigelow fatally shoots him. Bigelow finishes telling his story and dies. The police detective taking down the report instructs that his file be marked "D.O.A." 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

Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine calledBoulevard. Men are attracted to her, including boss Victor Kranish (Paul Cavanagh), wealthy advertiser Felix Courtland (John Loder) and a former assistant, Jack Garet (William Lundigan), who is now working for Courtland and blackmailing her about events from her past. Madeleine makes a suicide attempt and is headed toward a breakdown. She crashes her car near the home of Dr. Richard Caleb (Morris Carnovsky) a psychiatrist, who discovers her unconscious and cares for her. Then, thanks to his professional care, she realizes she is running away from herself just as her popular artist father who committed suicide may have been doing. As she is being put upon by her job's demands, she suddenly decides to quit her job and disappear from the fashion scene. Under another name she moves into a smaller walk-up apartment where she goes back to her earlier love, painting. By catching a lab mouse without the stereotypical female fear for such animals she meets and impresses her downstairs neighbor. He is a handsome medical researcher, David Cousins (Dennis O'Keefe), who just happens to need someone to draw the cells he studies under the microscope. They work together intensely, resulting in an excellent paper that David is invited to present at a conference. Before he leaves David proposes marriage. Madeleine clearly wants this too, but feels too uncomfortable to say yes because she has never told David about her somewhat checkered love life. In the meantime, Madeleine's whereabouts ceases to be a secret to her previous colleagues, and to Felix Courtland who even manages to get a key to her apartment and surprises her there, but she shows him the door. Then, just when David is away, a colleague at Boulevard magazine contacts her seemingly for some technical advice, but Madeleine wants to have nothing to do with the magazine. Still, she consents to meet her colleague at one of their old haunts, where everyone still knows her and where, surprise, her erstwhile boss and the former assistant happen to meet her as well. As was her custom earlier, she drinks too much and, for want of a taxi, accepts a ride in Courtland's chauffeur-driven car and, as happened earlier, ends up at Courtland's mansion by default. There, Courtland kisses her, but is interrupted by Jack Garet on a return visit. It so happens that Garet had stolen a precious stone out of Courtland's home safe, and he wants to talk to Courtland to dissuade him from going to the police for the second time. Courtland refuses and kicks him out, with much noise. Madeleine wakes up from the shouts, realizes that she can leave Courtland and slips away from his home through the rain. Garet comes back again, Courtland refuses to leave the police out of the burglary, and while he is calling the police Garet fatally bludgeons him with a table cigarette lighter. The next day David comes home early from a successful conference that has even made the newspaper. But, the same issue has the sensational news about Courtland's murder. Madeleine sees this news, and realizes she is in trouble. Shortly thereafter the police come to arrest her, and it comes out that Madeleine has lived under a false name. David is completely blown over by what he now hears about Madeleine's past for the first time. In his shock he refuses to marry this unknown person. Madeleine is charged with the murder. Later on, during the trial, she is catatonic, completely uninterested in the proceedings and refuses to let her lawyer defend her until David, as a witness, is asked if he still loves her. He does: the response that Dr. Caleb may have suggested would be important to Madeleine. Indeed, now she becomes a cooperating witness. In the process, Courtland's home safe is discovered as is the theft, in part by David who notices that Garet may be hiding something. David confronts Garet, subdues him in a fight, and Garet is arrested. He confesses, and Madeleine is declared innocent. In the end, Madeleine leaves David a letter explaining that she can not marry him until she is sure she can really be the person he once thought she was. David hears that she's gone to the airport, where Madeleine is waiting for the plane with Dr. Caleb who tells her she is making a mistake to go away. But David comes just in time to grab Madeleine on the tarmac, waves the plane away, and they are finally in each other's arms. 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

Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), is manager of an oil company. The payroll has been stolen in a hold-up. His fiance urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Deducing the road the robber may have taken over the border with Mexico, he goes along to intercept him. He shoots a man who shouts back at him and does not raise his hands when challenged by Lin. Too late Lin learns that the man could not raise one arm because it was injured and this was the reason for his shouting rather than complying with the demand he raise his hands; he was not guilty of the robbery. Troubled at his action and abandoned by his fiance, Lin takes it on himself to tell the dead man's wife, Ellen (Teresa Wright) - but on arrival he is mistaken for an applicant for a helper to keep the dead man's farm going until his widow's son is old enough to take over. Lin believes that this opportunity has been given to him to make amends for his mistake and he gives up his position to labor as a man-of-all-work on the farm. With Father Gomez (Victor Jory) by his side, the story that he is being pursued by the police for another killing is told in a flashback. 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

Boys' Reformatoryis a 1939 Americancrime filmdirected by Howard Bretherton and produced by Lindsley Parsons for Monogram Pictures. The screenplay was written by Wellyn Totman and Ray Trampe after a story by Ray Trampe and Norman S. Hall. 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

Double Crossis a 1941 AmericanProducers Releasing Corporationcrime film directed byAlbert H. Kelleyand starringserialstarKane Richmond. The film is also known asMotorcycle Squad(American 16mm rental title). When anightclubthat also features illegal gambling is raided by the police, uniformed motorcycle policeman Steve Bronson is in an adjoining room to the main area with his girlfriend Fay Saunders who is a co-owner of the club with Nick Taggart. When Fay sees several policemen scuffling with Nick she grabs Steve's revolver and shoots one of the policemen. The other policemen return fire mortally wounding Steve whilst Fay places the revolver next to him and declares she saw Steve fire on the police. Steve's best friend is fellow motorcycle policeman Jim Murray, the son of a police captain who is the scourge of the city's criminals and corrupt politicians. Jim plans to infiltrate the night club to discover the truth on Steve's innocence with the help of his fiancée and Steve's sister Ellen. Jim begins to behave disgracefully that leads him to bedrummed outof the police force. Fay, Nick and his criminal associates see Jim as an opportunity to gain information on police activities as well as to embarrass Jim's father Captain Murray who has already been the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt. Fay begins to fall in love with Jim; Nick gathers some insurance for his future by clandestinely recording Fay's admitted it was she who shot the policeman in the raid. When Nick catches Ellen taking a photograph of the mayor of the city accepting money from him he captures her and also catches on to Jim's true loyalties. He concocts a scheme to eliminate the both of them by blaming the zealous shoot first ask questions later Captain Murray. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #CrimeMovies #VintageConnoisseurPresents #VintageMovies Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Ma Barker's Killer Broodis aneo noircrime film, released in 1960. Thelow-budget filmwas directed byBill Karnand starredLurene Tuttleas the title character,Ma Barker. The film is a highly fictionalized account of the life of Ma Barker and her four sons, whoseBarker-Karpis gangterrorized the South and Midwest in the 1930s with a string of kidnappings, robberies, and murders. The gang members are also depicted working with other well-known criminals of the era, includingJohn Dillinger(Eric Sinclair), andBaby Face Nelson(Robert Kendall). To the horror of her husband, Kate Barker, known as "Ma," teaches her four young sons to steal money from the collection plate in church. Her husband tries to convince her to stop using her sons to commit crimes, but is ignored. Ma expresses her contempt for "sissies" and says that "guts" is the only virtue. Her husband leaves her when their sensitive son Herman is arrested after Ma forces him to rob a fun fair. After this, the local sheriff runs Ma Barker and her boys out of town. Years later, she has become a hardened criminal along with her sons. She is known in the underworld for her ruthlessness and efficiency in planning "jobs." At a party she hosts for leading criminalsMachine Gun Kelly, encouraged by his brash girlfriend Lou, claims he can work without her. Ma is dismissive. After Kelly's independent attempt at a kidnapping fails, Ma belittles Lou. Lou plans revenge. Meanwhile psychopathic killerAlvin Karpisis introduced to the gang. Ma uses him to get rid of weaklings and threats. Ma's drunken new husband Arthur Dunlop is murdered when he blabs about their activities, as is corrupt mob-doctor, Dr. Guelffe. After a failed robbery Herman shoots himself to avoid capture by the police. Ma is embittered, but plans a major kidnapping that will make the gang rich. She kidnaps wealthy banker, Mr. Khortney. Lou and Kelly discover Ma's hideout and plan to take the kidnap victim from her by force, to collect the ransom themselves, but they are outmaneuvered when Ma reveals she hasBaby Face NelsonandJohn Dillingerwith her. The kidnap money is collected, but now the FBI are after the gang. Knowing that Ma's sonDoc Barkeris attracted to her, Lou seduces him in order to bring him over to her side, but her plan is foiled when the FBI arrest him. They discover a letter that reveals Ma's whereabouts. At a house with her son Fred, she is surrounded by four agents. Fred wants to surrender, but she refuses, and guns down two agents with a Tommy gun. The other agents open fire, killing Fred. Ma strides out with a blazing gun, and is cut down. 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 #FilmNoir Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Great Flamarionis a 1945film noirmystery filmdirected byAnthony MannstarringErich von StroheimandMary Beth Hughes. The film, like many films noir, is shot inflashbacknarrative. The film was produced byRepublic Pictures.[1] This film is now in thepublic domain. he film opens following a murder at a cabaret inMexico Cityin 1936; a shot is heard, but the body of the female victim (Connie) has been strangled. The police take the woman's husband into custody, assuming he is the murderer. But Flamarion, who has been shot, is the murderer and he explains to a stagehand why he killed Connie inflashback.The Great Flamarion (Erich von Stroheim) is an arrogant, friendless, andmisogynousmarksmanwho displays his trick gunshot act in thevaudevillecircuit. His show features a beautiful assistant, Connie (Mary Beth Hughes) and her drunken husband Al (Dan Duryea), Flamarion's other assistant. Flamarion falls in love with Connie, the movie'sfemme fatale, and is soon manipulated by her into killing her no good husband during one of their acts. After Al's supposed accidental death, Connie convinces Flamarion to wait three months before the two can marry and flees back to Minnesota. Meanwhile, Connie has already begun a relationship with another performer, Eddie (Stephen Barclay). After failing to show up at an arranged meeting place three months later, Flamarion goes into a downward spiral of drinking and gambling. Flamarion eventually finds Connie who informs him that she never loved him and used him to get rid of her husband. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #CrimeNoir Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Dark Mountainis a 1944 Americanfilm noircrime filmdirected byWilliam Berke. It is also known asThunderboltandThunder Mountain. When forest ranger Don Bradley manages to rescue two horses from burning to death inside a building during a forest fire, he gets promoted to head of the Dark Mountain area. His friend Willie gets to follow him as his assistant. His first week off Don goes to see his girlfriend Kay and asks her to marry him, but she tells him she can't, since she just married a merchant named Steve Downey. Crushed, Don returns to Dark Mountain. Kay finds out that the man she married is a racketeer, operating on the black market. One day a government agent, Dave Lewis, arrives to investigate Steve's business. He is killed by one of Steve's goons, and the body dropped in the middle of the road, to make it look like he has been accidentally run over. Kay decides to leave her husband, but he doesn't let her go. She is present and witness to when Steve kills one of his own men that he suspects have told the police about the operation. Steve then flees and brings Kay with him. He tells her that she is a criminal too, being an accomplice in the racketeering since her name is on the contract for his warehouse. When Steve decides they will split up to easier get away from the police, Kay goes to Don for protection and advice. He gives her shelter in one of the mountain cabins but tells her to go to police as soon as possible. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #CrimeNoir Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

All Paris is frightened by the murders attributed to "Bluebeard".ModisteLucille (Jean Parker) is introduced to Gaston Morrell (John Carradine), apuppeteerand painter, by her friend. They are attracted to each other, and she accepts a commission to design some costumes for his puppets. At home, Morrell is confronted by a jealous Renee (Sonia Sorel), who performs in Morrell's puppet show and is his lover. When she wonders what became of the models who had posed for him, he strangles her, then dumps her body in theSeine River. Art dealer Jean Lamarte (Ludwig Stössel) is aware of Morrell's homicidal tendencies, but keeps his secret, as Morrell's paintings fetch high prices. However, the normally discreet Lamarte makes a mistake in selling Morrell's last work to a duke. When the duke exhibits his collection, a policeman on guard recognizes the portrait as being that of one of Bluebeard's victims. Inspector Lefevre (Nils Asther) of theSûretécalls in one of his best undercover agents, Francine (Teala Loring), who happens to be Lucille's sister. She and her "father" go to Lamarte to have her portrait done. Lamarte is on his guard, but her father is willing to pay a very large commission to find the man responsible for the duke's painting, and Lamarte's greed overcomes his caution. Morrell has decided to give up painting (which triggers his murderous compulsion) out of love for Lucille, but Lamarte pressures him into one last picture to make him financially independent. However, Francine recognizes him, having met him briefly earlier at her sister's apartment, and Morrell has no choice but to dispose of her. Certain that Francine and her father were working for the police, Lamarte tries to flee, but Morrell catches him and kills him too, before escaping. The only clue he leaves behind is thecravathe used to strangle Francine. At Francine's funeral, Inspector Lefevre shows Lucille the cravat. She knows it belongs to Morrell, as she had mended it for him. When she confronts Morrell, he tells her the story behind his crimes. As a starving art student, he had nursed back to health a woman who had fainted, fallen in love with her, and painted her portrait. She left without warning. When his painting was chosen to hang in theLouvre, he searched for her to tell her the news, only to discover that she was a prostitute. Enraged by her contemptuous response, he strangled her. But ever since then, every model he painted turned into her in his mind, and he was compelled to kill her again and again. When Lucille tells him she is going to the authorities, he starts strangling her too, but the police break in. Lefevre saw that Lucille recognized the cravat and had her followed. After a chase across the rooftops, Morrell falls to his death into the Seine. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #VintageHorroFilms #VintageConnoisseurPresents #CrimeNoir

Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) runs anarcoticssmugglingoperation to the US from Mexico, which theLos Angeles Police Departmentand the US federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop. Because of Ritchie's careful operating procedures, US authorities haven't even been able to find out the identities of his sources or customers and are desperate for a breakthrough. As a last resort, Madeleine Haley (Claire Trevor), an LAPD officer and formerOSSoperative, is sent undercover to Mexico to charm her way into Ritchie's confidence. Once there, Haley manages to establish contact with Ritchie's gang, but is kidnapped by Johnny Macklin (Fred MacMurray), a federal agent posing as a hoodlum working for a rival of Ritchie's and who also steals a load of Ritchie's narcotics. Haley is unaware that he is also undercover. She joins Macklin on a smuggling trip to maintain her cover and nab Macklin and the ring, all while Ritchie is in hot pursuit. 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

Police Lieutenant Sam Carson spots Walter Bard's bullet-ridden corpse in a car brazenly left in front of the police station. Carson questions Janet Bradley after finding her name in the dead man's appointment book. She admits that Bard had been blackmailing her friend for $20,000, and that she went to see him, though she had been able to raise only half the money. When he refused to settle for that, she claims she took what she came for at gunpoint. Max Calvert, a newspaper owner, pressures Carson to arrest Bradley to hurt her father's election campaign for mayor. Carson declines. When Dr. Yager, the corrupt medical examiner, informs Calvert that Bard actually died from poison, Calvert orders him to get the body out of the police station and substitute another corpse for it before anyone else finds out. Meanwhile, Carson interviews Bard's estranged wife, Nora, who is accompanied by her lawyer and boyfriend, Arthur Templeton. Complications ensue when a prisoner pulls his own switch, taking the place of Bard's body to escape from the police station in an ambulance. Johnny Williams, the new reporter on the police beat, finds the missing body in a closet. He gets a scoop for his newspaper, and Carson gets his corpse back. The lieutenant notices there is very little blood for a fatal gunshot, so he orders another autopsy, by someone other than Yager. Then Nora Bard and Arthur Templeton voluntarily confess to him that they lied before. Nora was in her husband's apartment when he died. She had gone to plead for a divorce, and hid in another room when Janet Bradley arrived. After Janet left, Nora found Walter dying after drinking some liquor. When she ran out, she was seen by Templeton. He went into the apartment, assumed Nora had committed the crime, and staged the fake suicide to protect her. Noticing a fresh flower among Bard's effects, Carson questions flower seller Flossie. She mentions that when she went to try to collect what Bard owed her, she saw Yager unlock and enter Bard's apartment. Carson confronts Yager. Knowing that Bard had been investigating Yager for amalpracticesuit, the policeman guesses that Yager stole the evidence Bard had found and poisoned the liquor. Yager makes a break for it, but is caught. At Detective Oppenheimer's suggestion, Carson then takes Janet Bradley out. Bard’s appointment book showed he had an appointment with Janet Bradley on January 17 10:30 PM A scene later in the police headquarters shows a paper wall calendar with a date of “21”. 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

Dr. Dan Scott has developed a serum that cures the ills of animals, although it did alter the color of a leopard used in one experiment. Eager to try it on a human being, despite his mentor Dr. Richard Bach's many concerns, Scott finds a consenting patient in Kyra Zelas, a woman with a meek personality who is dying of tuberculosis. The serum seems to cure her instantly. It also dramatically affects her personality. Kyra shows a flash of temper, then jumps out of a car and runs into a shop, where she steals a dress then disguises her identity by willing her hair color to change from brunette to blonde. Scott falls in love with her. At a party, however, Kyra seduces a guest, Barton Kendall. When his wife Evelyn objects, Kyra disguises herself again and murders her. Then she marries Kendall, but behaves monstrously toward him. The doctors use a ploy that leaves Kyra in an unconscious state, then perform surgery to reverse the serum's effect, which also restores Kyra's terminal disease. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #VintageSciFiMovies#VintageConnoisseurPresents #VintageHorror Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Strange Bargainis a 1949 Americancrimefilm noirdirected by Will Price and starringMartha Scott, Jeffrey LynnandHarry Morgan. It is the story of a bookkeeper in need of money who agrees against his own better judgment to help a wealthy man carry out an elaborate suicide plan. Because the firm is bankrupt, bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide, but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for wife Edna and son Sydney to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme. He finds an envelope with $10,000 that Jarvis has left behind for him, which he hides from Georgia, his wife. He disposes of the weapon as well, so Jarvis's fingerprints from the suicide won't be found. Lt. Webb of the police is suspicious of Jarvis's business partner, Timothy Hearne. In the meantime, Sam's conscience gets the better of him. When he goes to see Edna Jarvis to confess his role in her husband's death, Edna reveals she's the one who committed the murder, Jarvis having changed his mind about the fake suicide. Edna is about to kill Sam as well when Webb shows up in the nick of time. 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 #FilmNoir Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

The Little Shop of Horrorsis a 1960 Americanhorrorblack comedy filmdirected byRoger Corman. Written byCharles B. Griffith, the film is afarceabout an inadequate florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The film's concept may have been inspired by "Green Thoughts", a 1932 story byJohn Collierabout a man-eating plant.[6]Hollywood writerDennis McDougalsuggests that Griffith may have been influenced byArthur C. Clarke's 1956 sci-fi short story "The Reluctant Orchid"[7](which was in turn inspired by the 1905H. G. Wellsstory "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid"). The film starsJonathan Haze,Jackie Joseph,Mel Welles, andDick Miller, who had all worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the titleThe Passionate People Eaterthe film employs an original style of humor, combiningblack comedywith farceand incorporatingJewish humorand elements ofspoof.The Little Shop of Horrorswas shot on a budget of $28,000 (about $240,000 in 2019), with interiors being shot in two days utilizing sets that had been left standing fromA Bucket of Blood. The film slowly gained acult followingthrough word of mouth when it was distributed as theB moviein adouble featurewithMario Bava'sBlack Sundayand later withLast Woman on Earth.The film's popularity increased with local television broadcasts,and the presence of a youngJack Nicholson, whose small role in the film has been prominently promoted onhome videoreleases of the film.The film was the basis for anOff-Broadwaymusical,Little Shop of Horrors, and was notably remade into a1986 feature filmand the musical enjoyed a 2003Broadwayrevival, all of which have attracted attention to the 1960 film. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #VintageSciFiMovies#VintageConnoisseurPresents #VintageHorror Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

Sensation Hunters, also known asClub Paradiseis a 1945 American film directed byChristy Cabanne. A naïve young girl looking to escape from a bad family situation falls in love with a mna whoe turns out to be a cad and leads her down the road to ruin. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #ClubParadise #VintageConnoisseurPresents #CrimeNoir Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS

the two rekindle their old romance. Driving in her father's car, Sheba is nearly Sheba, Babyis a 1975 AmericanBlaxploitationactionfilm directed byWilliam Girdlerand starringPam GrierandAustin Stoker. Private investigator Sheba Shayne (Grier) returns fromChicago, Illinoisto her hometown ofLouisville, Kentucky, to confront thugs who are trying to intimidate her father Andy into dissolving or handing over his family insurance company business. Sheba teams up with her father’s partner, Brick Williams, and killed when the vehicle explodes. The local police warn Sheba against continuing to pursue her investigation, but she persists. Later, four gangsters show up at Andy's office and open fire. Sheba kills three of them, but Andy is shot and killed during the battle. Sheba's investigation leads to an apartment complex, where another shootout ensues. After a chase into a nearby amusement park, Sheba extracts a confession from a gangster named Pilot that the local gang is controlled by an insurance salesman called Shark Merrill. Sheba joins a party aboard Shark's yacht, but is identified and captured. After the gang does away with Pilot by tying him to a speedboat and dragging him through the water at high speed, they attempt about to do the same to Sheba, but she escapes using a knife she had hidden in her wet suit to cut the rope. As Brick leads the police to the yacht and another gun battle breaks out, Shark tries to escape in a speedboat, but Sheba gives chase on a jet ski and kills him with a spear gun. Brick urges Sheba to continue their relationship, but Sheba insists on returning to Chicago, though she promises to return to see him again, since they are now business partners. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #ShebaBaby #VintageConnoisseurPresents #Blaxploitation

Lady Cocoa(also known asPop Goes the Weasel) is a 1975 low-budget Americanblaxploitationcrime drama that was directed byMatt Cimber.WithLola Falanain the title role,the film also featuredMillie Perkins,Alex Dreier,Gene WashingtonandJoe Greene. It was released byMoonstone Entertainment,and written byGeorge Theakos. The film tells the story of a woman (Lola Falana) who is released from jail for 24 hours prior to testifying against her ex-boyfriend, played by James A. Watson Jr. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #CrimeDrama #VintageConnoisseurPresents #Blaxsploitation

Hustlingis a 1975 American television film directed byJoseph Sargentbased on a book aboutprostitutionbyGail Sheehy.The film starsJill Clayburgh as "Redpants", alongsideLee Remick, while its script is written byFay Kanin. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #VintageFullMovies #VintageConnoisseurPresents #ClassicDrama

Big Town After Darkis a 1947 Americanfilm noirdrama filmdirected byWilliam C. Thomasand written by Whitman Chambers. The film starsPhillip Reed,Hillary Brooke,Richard Travis,Ann Gillis,Vince Barnett,Joe SawyerandRobert Kent The film was released on December 12, 1947, byParamount Pictures. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #CrimeNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #FilmNoir

Hotel Chevalieris an American-Frenchshort filmwritten and directed byWes Andersonand released in 2007. StarringJason SchwartzmanandNatalie Portmanas former lovers who reunite in aParishotel room, the 13-minute film acts as aprologueto Anderson's 2007 featureThe Darjeeling Limited. It was shot on location in a Parisian hotel by a small crew and self-financed by Anderson, who initially intended it to be a stand-alone work. Its first showing was at theVenice Film Festivalpremière of the feature film on September 2, 2007, and it made its own debut later that month atApple Storesin four U.S. cities. The day after the film's première, it was made freely available from theiTunes Storefor one month, during which time it was downloaded more than 500,000 times. The film garnered near universal critical acclaim from reviewers, who compared it favorably toThe Darjeeling Limitedand praised its richness, poignancy, and careful construction. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #HotelChevalier #VintageConnoisseurPresents

The Outer Gateis a 1937 American film directed by actor/screenwriterRaymond Cannon. The screenplay concerns a man who organizes a revenge plot after being sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. Bob Terry works for John Borden, and has eyes for his daughter, but after he's accused of stealing and is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, he organizes a revenge plot. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie

A nameless, ruthless man (Preston Foster) who identifies himself as Mr. Big is timing to the minute the arrival of two trucks. One is an armored car routinely picking up bags containing much money from a bank. The other truck delivers to a flower shop next door. The man's timing shows that, for a very few minutes, the schedule of both trucks coincidentally parks them next to each other. He is casing the armored car. He needs a gang to help him rob it. He selects three men for the gang—the addictive gambler Peter Harris (Jack Elam) wanted for murder, gum-chewing thug Boyd Kane (Neville Brand) and the womanizing Tony Romano (Lee Van Cleef). When interviewing them, he wears a mask so they cannot identify him. He has selected them because each has a reason for fleeing the US. They will fit perfectly into Mr. Big's complex plan, which appears to be an ordinary robbery but is much more. Part of his plan involves making an innocent patsy out of the floral truck driver and ex-con Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a look-alike getaway truck that the police will pursue instead of Mr. Big's truck, to buy time to successfully escape the country. The robbery and pursuit go just as Mr. Big has planned. Each wearing a mask so none can identify each other, he and his gang arrive in a look-alike floral truck as Rolfe, unaware, drives away. Big and his gang subdue the armored car guards in four minutes, grab bags containing $1.2 million and flee, knowing that Rolfe's distinctive getaway truck will be mistaken for his. Escaping, Mr. Big gives each gang member a torn king playing card. He tells them, "Hang on to those cards. We'll cut up the money when I think it's had time enough to cool off. I've got everything covered, but in case something does go wrong, and I can't make the payoff myself, the cards will identify you to whoever I send with the money." When the gang members object, Big tells them, intensely, "You can't even rat on each other because you've never seen each other without those masks. I've made you cop-proof and stoolpigeon-proof and it's going to stay that way. Keep those masks. You'll be wearing them at the payoff." The mystery man sends the other three to other countries to wait for the final payout. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #CrimeNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #FilmNoir

When attractive but untalented Honori confesses to her sinister singing teacher Svengali that she has left her husband but refused his offer of money, he fixes her with an intense stare that drives her screaming from the room. A short time later her body is found in the Seine. Untouched by her death, Svengali and his flatmate Gecko visit the studio of English artists, The Laird, Taffy, and Billee, in search of a meal. On leaving they meet a lovely young milkmaid and artist's model, Trilby O'Ferrall. Svengali is enchanted by her, but she falls in love with the handsome, young Billee. One day under the pretext of curing her headache, Svengali hypnotises her and thereafter is able to control her by the power of his thoughts. When Billee discovers Trilby posing nude for a group of artists, they quarrel, and Svengali convinces her to fake a suicide and leave Paris with him. Five years later, as Madame Svengali the singer, she has become the toast of Europe with the help of his powers. Her old friends attend her Paris debut and they are astonished to see the woman they thought was dead. Determined to win her back from Svengali, Billee haunts her performances. His powers weakened by the strength of her attachment to Billee, Svengali keeps cancelling performances until finally they are reduced to an engagement in an Egyptian cabaret. When Svengali suffers an attack, his power over Trilby fails, she falters and sings horribly off key. As he dies, he begs to be granted her love in death as he never was in life. As if in response, she then dies in Billee's arms. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie

It is the night before the birthday of single child Barbara Webster (Verna Hillie). Her spoiled and unaffectionate mother tells her she will not be in town and she does not want her daughter to go with her where she's invited. Barbara, called also Babe, is quite disappointed about the coldness of her mother and relies on her father. Unfortunately, her mother tells her, he will be out of town as well. Barbara is left alone with her sadness about her parents not caring for her. That is what makes her call a friend Eddie to organize something for the evening. Eddie is with a friend Bill Evans, who asks if "she could bring something alive" with her. She answers, only the dead have to be digged out, and she will see to find something dandy and dumb. She calls an old friend, Claire Elliott. She would love to get out, but her father is rather severe and doesn't want her to go to night clubs. Babe nonetheless goes personally to talk with father Elliott and manages to persuade him. In the night club the two gentlemen leave the girls for some minutes to go and say hello to old friends. Meantime a woman, Flo Russell, comes to their table and tells them she works for Mr. Gilman, who owns an exclusive gown salon in New York and would be glad to have them as models in his shop. The boys come back with the intention to go to another party. Claire is forced to go with the group. On the way they are caught by police and Claires father has to bring them home. He makes her a speech and forbids her to exit home. With Babe they decide to leave home and go to New York to work for Gilman. They are hired by Gilman but they soon discover that he has another racket going on in his shop: blackmailing rich customers photographing them in suspicious situations. The story evolves ... Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie #CrimeNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #VintageFullMovies

Joe (Timothy Farrell) controls a gang of young girls who commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicNoirFilm Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur #FilmNoir #VintageConnoisseurPresents #RetroFullMovie