Episode 1: “Olivia” “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), film noir starring Ralph Meeker as detective Mike Hammer, directed by Robert Aldrich “The Big Heat” (1953), film noir starring Glenn Ford ...

This film noir contains one of the most shockingly violent ... you can help but be amazed they got away with this in 1953! Speaking of Marvin and Grahame, although they re supporting roles ...

12 years after his role as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart starred in Beat the Devil, an underrated parody of the 1941 classic. Directed by John Huston, The Maltese Falcon has a ...

Film Noir is a universe based around mystery, the femme fatale, and the detective. Sex, lies and murder is the seductive tone that created the visually stimulating art form of cinema that began in ...

There’s a black-and-white photograph taken in 1953 that shows a crowd of ... dimension to the procedurals and gangster films that preceded it: Noir. “These ‘noir’ films no longer have ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ SRO film noir series is dark this Monday ... The series ends Saturday evening with the 1953 corker, “The Blue Gardenia,” starring another ...

So Seattle now has two major film-noir retrospectives every year ... (1:15 p.m., 6 p.m.) CRY OF THE HUNTED (1953): Noir regular Barry Sullivan is an L.A. lawman pursuing a Cajun escaped convict ...

Most people who love movies have seen a good number of noir films — whether they knew they were watching noir or not. After all, scores of classics — and countless lesser, but still thoroughly ...

In 1953’s turgid “One Girl’s Confession ... prisoners with a ruthless hand -- she also has a great upper cut. Film noir shady ladies Jan Sterling and Audrey Totter are among her wards ...