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The Prowler
The Prowler (1951) is a Joseph Losey film noir starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes, written covertly by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo under Hugo Butler's name, produced by Sam Spiegel, and restored in 2007 by UCLA and the Film Noir Foundation.
The Set-Up
The Set-Up (1949) is a Robert Wise RKO boxing noir starring Robert Ryan as Stoker Thompson, a 35-year-old boxer whose manager secretly fixes his fight; adapted from Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem, it runs 72 minutes in real time.
The Stranger (1946 film)
The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, about a Nazi war criminal hiding in Connecticut.
The Third Man
The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed from Graham Greene's screenplay, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, and Orson Welles as Harry Lime, set in occupied Vienna, winner of the 1949 Cannes Grand Prix and topped the BFI 100.
The Three Faces of Eve
The Three Faces of Eve (1957) is a Nunnally Johnson psychological drama starring Joanne Woodward as a woman with three personalities, based on the Thigpen-Cleckley case of Chris Costner Sizemore; Woodward won the Best Actress Oscar.
The Woman in the Window (1944 film)
The Woman in the Window is a 1944 Fritz Lang film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea, adapted by Nunnally Johnson from J.H. Wallis's Once Off Guard, famous for its dream ending.
The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man (1956) is Alfred Hitchcock's black-and-white docudrama starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles, based on the true 1953 false arrest of New York bassist Manny Balestrero, sourced from Maxwell Anderson's book and Herbert Brean's Life article.
This Gun for Hire
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 Paramount film noir directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Alan Ladd as hitman Philip Raven and Veronica Lake, adapted from Graham Greene's A Gun for Sale; an early, influential noir that launched Ladd's stardom.
Touch of Evil
Touch of Evil (1958) is Orson Welles's film noir with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Marlene Dietrich, shot in Venice, California, released in a studio cut, and restored in 1998 by Walter Murch from Welles's 58-page December 1957 memo to Universal.
Underworld U.S.A.
Underworld U.S.A. is a 1961 Samuel Fuller crime film, also called Underworld, U.S.A., starring Cliff Robertson as Tolly Devlin, a safecracker avenging his father's murder by infiltrating a crime syndicate; based on Joseph F. Dineen's articles, released by Columbia Pictures.
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950 film)
Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dana Andrews as a New York detective who kills a suspect and covers it up.