THE SECRET FURY. RKO. 1950. Screenplay: Lionel Houser. Director: Mel Ferrer. Director of Photography: Leo Tover. Music: Roy Webb. Art Directors: Albert S. D’Agostino, Carroll Clark. Editor: Harry Marker. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Paul Kelly, Vivian Vance.
THE SET-UP. RKO. 1949. Screenplay: Art Cohn; from the poem by Joseph Moncure March. Director: Robert Wise. Director of Photography: Milton Krasner. Music Director: Constantin Bakaleinikoff. Art Directors: Albert S. D’Agostino, Jack Okey. Editor: Roland Gross. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton.
SHADOW OF A DOUBT. Universal. 1943. Screenplay: Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville; from a story by Gordon McDonell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Director of Photography: Joseph Valentine. Music Score: Dimitri Tiomkin. Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Robert Boyle. Editor: Milton Carruth. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge.
SHIELD FOR MURDER. United Artists. 1954. Screenplay: Richard Alan Simmons, John C. Higgins, from the novel by William P. McGivern. Directors: Edmond O’Brien, Howard W. Koch. Director of Photography: Gordon Avil. Music: Paul Dunlap. Art Director: Charles D. Hall. Editor: John F. Schreyer. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Marla English, John Agar, Emile Meyer, Carolyn Jones, William Schallert.
SHOCKPROOF. Columbia. 1949. Screenplay: Samuel Fuller, Helen Deutsch. Director: Douglas Sirk. Director of Photography: Charles Lawton, Jr. Music: George Duning. Art Director: Carl Anderson. Editor: Gene Havlick. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, Esther Minciotti, Howard St. John, Russell Collins, Charles Bates.
SIDE STREET. MGM. 1950. Screenplay: Sydney Boehm. Director: Anthony Mann. Director of Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Music Score: Lennie Hayton. Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart. Editor: Conrad A. Nervig. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly.
SLEEP, MY LOVE. United Artists. 1948. Screenplay: St. Clair McKelway, Leo Rosten, from the novel by Leo Rosten. Director: Douglas Sirk. Director of Photography: Joseph Valentine. Music: Rudy Schrager. Art Director: William Ferrari. Editor: Lynn Harrison. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, George Coulouris, Hazel Brooks, Arlene Francis, Queenie Smith, Key Luke, Raymond Burr, Ralph Morgan.
THE SNIPER. Columbia. 1952. Screenplay: Harry Brown. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Director of Photography: Burnett Guffey. Music: George Antheil. Art Directors: Rudolph Sternad, Walter Holscher. Editor: Aaron Stell. Cast: Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen, Richard Kiley.
SO DARK THE NIGHT. Columbia. 1946. Screenplay: Martin Berkeley and Dwight Babcock. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Director of Photography: Burnett Guffey. Music: Morris W. Stoloff, Hugo Friedhofer. Art Director: Carl Anderson. Editor: Jerome Thoms. Cast: Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee.
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER. Paramount. 1948. Screenplay: Lucille Fletcher; from her radio play. Director: Anatole Litvak. Director of Photography: Sol Polito. Music Score: Gene Merritt, Walter Oberst. Art Directors: Hans Dreier, Earl Hedrick. Editor: Warren Low. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, William Conrad.
THE STEEL TRAP. 20th Century Fox. 1952. Screenplay: Andrew L. Stone. Director: Andrew L. Stone. Director of Photography: Ernst Laszlo. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Production Management: Robert Aldrich. Editor: Otto Ludwig. Cast: Joseph Cotton, Teresa Wright, Katherine Warren, Eddie Marr.
STORM WARNING. Warner Brothers. 1951. Screenplay: Richard Brooks, Daniel Fuchs. Director: Stuart Heisler. Director of Photography: Carl Guthrie. Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof. Art Director: Leo K. Kuter. Editor: Clarence Kolster. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Steve Cochran.
THE STRANGER. International-RKO. 1946. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller; from a story by Victor Trivas. Director: Orson Welles. Director of Photography: Russell Metty. Music Score: Bronislau Kaper. Art Director: Perry Ferguson. Editor: Ernest Nims. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles.
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Warner Brothers. 1951. Screenplay: Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Or-monde, adapted by Whitfield Cook; from the novel by Patricia Highsmith. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Director of Photography: Robert Burks. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Art Director: Ted Haworth. Editor: William H. Ziegler. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne.
THE STREET WITH NO NAME. 20th Century-Fox. 1948. Screenplay: Harry Kleiner. Director: William Keighley. Director of Photography: Joe MacDonald. Music: Lionel Newman. Art Directors: Lyle Wheeler, Chester Gore. Editor: William Reynolds. Cast: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence.
SUDDEN DANGER. Allied Artists. 1955. Screenplay: Elwood Ullman. Director: Hubert Cornfield. Director of Photography: Ellsworth Fredericks. Music: Marlin Skiles. Art Director: Dave Milton. Editor: William Austin. Cast: Bill Elliott, Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Minerva Urecal, Lyle Talbot, Edward Andrews, Dayton Lummis, Helene Stanton.
SUDDEN FEAR. Kaufman-RKO. 1952. Screenplay: Lenore Coffee and Robert Smith; from the novel by Edna Sherry. Director: David Miller. Director of Photography: Charles Lang Jr. Music: Elmer Bernstein. Art Director: Boris Leven. Editor: Leon Barsha. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett.
SUNSET BOULEVARD. Paramount. 1950. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. Director: Billy Wilder. Director of Photography: John F. Seitz. Music Score: Franz Waxman. Art Director: Hans Dreier, John Meehan. Editor: Arthur Schmidt. Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, H. B. Warner.
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS. United Artists. 1957. Screenplay: Clifford Odets, adapted by Ernest Lehman; from the short story Tell Me About It Tomorrow by Ernest Lehman. Director: Alexander MacKendrick. Director of Photography: James Wong Howe. Music: Elmer Bernstein. Art Director: Edward Carrere. Editor: Alan Crosland Jr. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Queenie Smith, Autumn Russell.
TALK ABOUT A STRANGER. MGM. 1952. Screenplay: Margaret Fiits, from the short story “The Enemy” by Charlotte Armstrong. Director: David Bradley. Director of Photography: John Alton. Music: David Buttolph. Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu. Editor: Newell P. Kimlin. Cast: George Murphy, Billy Gray, Kurt Kasznar, Lewis Stone, Nancy Davis.
TAXI DRIVER. Columbia. 1976. Screenplay: Paul Schrader. Director: Martin Scorsese. Director of Photography: Michael Chapman. Music: Bernard Herrmann. Art Director: Charles Rosen. Editors: Tom Rolf, Melvin Shapiro. Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd, Leonard Harris, Harvey Keitel.
TENSION. MGM. 1950.Screenplay: Allen Rivkin. Director: John Berry. Director of Photography: Harry Stradling. Music: Andre Previn. Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons, Leonid Vasian. Editor: Albert Akst. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, William Conrad.
THE 3rd VOICE. 20th Century Fox. 1960. Screenplay: Hubert Cornfield, from the novel ALL THE WAY by Charles Williams. Director: Hubert Cornfield. Director of Photography: Ernest Haller. Music: Johnny Mandel. Editor: John A. Bushelman. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Laraine Day, Julie London, Olga San Juan, Tom Hernández, Abel Franco, Jorge Treviño.
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT. RKO. 1948. Screenplay: Charles Schnee, adapted by Nicholas Ray; from the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. Director: Nicholas Ray. Director of Photography: George E. Diskant. Music: Leigh Harline. Art Directors: Albert S. D’Agostino, Al Herman. Editor: Sherman Todd. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig.
THIS GUN FOR HIRE. Paramount. 1942. Screenplay: Albert Maltz and W. R. Burnett; from the novel by Graham Greene. Director: Frank Tuttle. Director of Photography: John Seitz. Music: Frank Loesser and Jacques Press. Editor: Archie Marshek. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar.
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY. Warner
Brothers. 1951.Screenplay: Art Cohn, Guy Endor, based on his short story “Spring Kill.” Director: Felix Feist. Director of Photography: Robert Burks. Music: Daniele Amphitheatrof. Art Director: Charles H. Clarke. Editor: Alan Crosland, Jr. Cast: Steve Cochran, Ruth Roman, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal, Morris Ankrum.
TOO LATE FOR TEARS. United Artists. 1949. Screenplay: Roy Huggins, from The Saturday Evening Post serialization of his novel. Director: Byron Haskin. Director of Photography: William Mellor. Music: Morton Scott. Art Director: James Sullivan. Editor: Harry Keller. Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller, Denver Pyle.
TOUCH OF EVIL. Universal-International. 1958. Screenplay: Orson Welles; from the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. Director: Orson Welles. Director of Photography: Russell Metty. Music: Henry Mancini. Art Directors: Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy. Editors: Virgil M. Vogel, Aaron Stell. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Marlene Dietrich, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Mercedes McCambridge, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Keenan Wynn, Joseph Cotten.
TRY AND GET ME. United Artists. 1950. (Original release title, December 1950: THE SOUND OF FURY; title changed to TRY AND GET ME in March 1951.) Screenplay: Jo Pagano, from his novel THE CONDEMNED. Director: Cyril Endfield. Director of Photography: Guy Roe. Music: Hugo Friedhofer. Art Director: Perry Ferguson. Editor: Georgy Amy. Cast: Frank Lovejoy, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Carlson, Kathleen Ryan, Katherine Locke, Irene Vernon, Dabbs Greer.
UNDERWORLD U.S.A. Globe-Columbia. 1961. Screenplay: Samuel Fuller; from the Saturday Evening Post articles by Joseph F. Dinneen. Director: Samuel Fuller. Director of Photography: Hal Mohr. Music: Harry Sukman. Art Director: Robert Peterson. Editor: Jerome Thoms. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Arlene Francis, Robert Emhardt, Larry Gates, Richard Rust.
WHERE DANGER LIVES. RKO. 1950. Screenplay: Charles Bennett. Director: John Farrow. Director of Photography: Nicholas Musuraca. Music: Roy Webb. Art Directors: Albert S. D’Agostino, Ralph Berger. Editor: Eda Warren. Cast: Faith Domergue, Robert Mitchum, Maureen O’Sullivan, Claude Rains.
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS. 20th Century-Fox. 1950. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, adapted by Victor Trivas, Frank P. Rosenberg, and Robert E. Kent; from the novel Night Cry by William L. Stuart. Director: Otto Preminger. Director of Photography: Joseph LaShelle. Music: Cyril Mockridge. Art Directors: Lyle Wheeler, J. Russell Spencer. Editor: Louis Loeffler. Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed.
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS. RKO. 1956. Screenplay: Casey Robinson; from the novel The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein. Director: Fritz Lang. Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo. Music: Herschel Burke Gilbert. Art Director: Carroll Clark. Editor: Gene Fowler Jr. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, John Barrymore Jr., Ida Lupino, Mae Marsh.
WHITE HEAT. Warner Brothers. 1949. Screenplay: Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Director: Raoul Walsh. Director of Photography: Sid Hickox. Music Score: Max Steiner. Art Director: Edward Carrere. Editor: Owen Marks. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran.
WITNESS TO MURDER. United Artists. 1954. Screenplay: Chester Erskine. Director: Roy Rowland. Director of Photography: John Alton. Music: Herschel Burke Gilbert. Art Director: William Ferrari. Editor: Robert Swink. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White, Juanita Moore.
THE WINDOW. RKO. 1949. Screenplay: Mel Dinelli; from the novelette The Boy Cried Murder by Cornell Woolrich. Director: Ted Tetzlaff. Director of Photography: William Steiner. Music Score: Roy Webb. Art Directors: Walter E. Keller, Sam Corso. Editor: Frederic Knudtson. Cast: Barbara Hale, Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman.
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW. International-RKO. 1945. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson; from the novel Once Off Guard by J. H. Wallis. Director: Fritz Lang. Director of Photography: Milton Krasner. Music: Arthur Lange. Art Director: Duncan Cramer. Editors: Marjorie Johnson, Gene Fowler Jr. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmond Breon, Dan Duryea, Dorothy Peterson.
WOMAN ON THE RUN. Universal-International. 1950. Screenplay: Alan Campbell, Norman Foster, from an American Magazine story by Sylvia Tate. Director: Norman Foster. Director of Photography: Hal Mohr. Music: Emil Newman, Arthur Lange. Art Director: Boris Leven. Editor: Otto Ludwig. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliott, John Qualen.
THE WRONG MAN. Warner Brothers. 1956. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson and Angus MacPhail; from The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Director of Photography: Robert Burks. Music: Bernard Herrmann. Art Directors: Paul Sylbert, William L. Kuehl. Editor: George Tomasini. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Esther Minciotti.
Index
Numerals in italics indicate illustrations.
The Accused
Ace in the Hole
plot summary
quoted
rural setting
Act of Violence
Acting in film noir
Advise and Consent
Algren, Nelson
Altman, Robert revisionist noir director
American crime films, thirties influence on film noir
Anderson, Judith
Anderson, Maxwell
Andresen, Ole character in The Killers
Andrews, Dana
in Fallen Angel
in Laura
in Where the Sidewalk Ends
Angel Face (Woolrich.), quoted
Angel Face
Angels of Darkness (Woolrich.)
Amthor, Jules character in Murder, My Sweet
The Apartment
Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara, J.)
Appointment with a Shadow
Arbus, Diane
Archer, Miles character in The Maltese Falcon
Arkadin, Mr. character in Touch of Evil
Armored Car Robbery
The Asphalt Jungle
opening shots
rural setting
Astor, Mary
Auteur theory in America B films
B films
Baby Doll
Bacall, Lauren
directed by Howard Hawks
film partner to Bogart
Ball, Lucille
Ball of Fire
Bannister, Mr. character in The Lady from Shanghai
Barnes, Jake character in The Sun Also Rises
Baron, the character in Gilda
Bates, Norman character in Psycho
Bazin, André
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Bedelia, Bonnie
The Beguiled
Bellows, George
Belmondo, Jean-Paul
Bendix, William
Bennett, Joan
in The Reckless Moment
in Scarlet Street
in The Woman in the Window
in The Woman on the Beach
Bergen, Polly
Bergman, Ingrid
Beware, My Lovely
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
victim theme
wrong man theme
Beyond the Forest
Bickford, Charles
Bicycle Thief
The Big Clock
opening shots
manhunt theme
plot summary
The Big Combo
boxing milieu
crime as corporate enterprise
late noir decadence
The Big Heat
Gloria Grahame in
investigator as central character
manhunt theme
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