BORN TO BE BAD
1950 Warner Bros. 94 min USA Nicholas Ray Joan Fontaine looks sweet and innocent on the surface, but after she steals millionaire Zachary Scott away from another woman, she continues an illicit affair...
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LA COURSE DU LIÈVRE À TRAVERS LES CHAMPS 1972 CCFC 99 min France René Clement This adaptation of David Goodis’ novel Black Friday concerns a crook on the lam (Jean Louis Trintignant) who crosses paths...
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CLASH BY NIGHT
1952 Warner Bros. 105 min USA Fritz Lang Director Fritz Lang adds plenty of sizzle to Clifford Odets’ play about a love triangle in a coastal town. A wash-out in New York, Barbara Stanwyck returns home...
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1965 Warner Bros. 167 min USA Ken Annakin In November 1944, the German army surprised the Allies with a last-ditch offensive on the western front, near the Ardennes forest. This entertaining (if...
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1949 Warner Bros. 72 min USA Robert Wise Robert Ryan stars as Stoker Thomson, a two-bit fighter making his grim last stand in the aptly named Paradise City boxing ring. Certain his boxer will lose,...
View ArticleODDS AGAINST TOMORROW
1959 Park Circus/MGM 96 min USA Robert Wise Bigoted ex-convict Robert Ryan’s mistrust of partner Harry Belafonte undermines the heist plans of their ex-cop leader (Ed Begley) in this searing,...
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1948 Warner Bros. 87 min USA Jacques Tourneur Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and Paul Lukas head an international cast in the first Hollywood film shot on location in Allied-occupied postwar Germany. An...
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1947 Warner Bros. 86 min USA Edward Dmytryk Robert Mitchum, Robert Young and Robert Ryan lead the cast in this noir-tinged drama, among the first Hollywood films to confront anti-Semitism. When a...
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1948 Warner Bros. 81 min USA Fred Zinnemann A dark masterpiece made during the Metro tenure of producer Dore Schary, this is emblematic film noir. Psychically scarred Robert Ryan stalks war hero Van...
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1955 Warner Bros. 81 min USA John Sturges Set in a mythical desert town post-WWII, the film follows one-armed combat veteran Spencer Tracy as he seeks to discover the whereabouts of a Japanese-American...
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