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Suspicion (1941 film)
Suspicion (1941) is Alfred Hitchcock's RKO romantic thriller starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, based on Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact; Fontaine won the Best Actress Oscar, and the studio forced a happy ending over Hitchcock's murder finale.
The Bat Whispers
The Bat Whispers is Roland West's 1930 American comedy-mystery, a sound remake of his 1926 silent The Bat, based on Rinehart and Hopwood's play. Shot simultaneously in 35mm and 65mm Magnifilm widescreen, it influenced Bob Kane's Batman and was restored by UCLA.
The Big Heat
The Big Heat (1953) is a Fritz Lang film noir for Columbia, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin, adapted from William P. McGivern's Saturday Evening Post serial about a detective fighting police corruption.
The Blue Dahlia
The Blue Dahlia (1946) is a Paramount film noir directed by George Marshall from Raymond Chandler's first original screenplay, starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, and William Bendix as returning Navy veterans in a Hollywood murder mystery.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (The Crime of Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 French drama by Jean Renoir, scripted with Jacques Prévert, in which printing-house employees form a cooperative after their publisher Batala's presumed death, then Lange kills him on his return.
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai is Orson Welles's 1948 Columbia Pictures film noir, adapted from Sherwood King's novel If I Die Before I Wake, starring Welles and Rita Hayworth, famous for its hall of mirrors climax and studio-cut 87-minute release.
The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes (1938) is Alfred Hitchcock's British comic thriller, adapted from Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins, in which Margaret Lockwood's Iris insists vanished governess Miss Froy existed; his penultimate UK film, Truffaut's favorite, remade 1979 and 2013.
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston's directorial debut for Warner Bros., adapts Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel; Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade hunts a jeweled statuette in a foundational film noir.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties (1939) is Raoul Walsh's Warner Bros. gangster drama starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart as WWI friends turned Prohibition bootleggers, closing the studio's 1930s gangster cycle; based on Mark Hellinger's story "The World Moves On."
The Spy in Black
The Spy in Black (US title U-Boat 29) is a 1939 British WWI spy thriller directed by Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson, and the first Powell–Pressburger collaboration, set in the Orkney Islands.
The Thin Man (film)
The Thin Man (1934) is an MGM comic detective film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, adapted from Dashiell Hammett's novel; it earned four Oscar nominations and spawned five sequels.
Young and Innocent
Young and Innocent (US title The Girl Was Young) is Alfred Hitchcock's 1937 British thriller based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles, starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney as a wrongly accused man and the constable's daughter who help him, famous for its ballroom crane shot.