In director David Miller's 1952 film noir classic, "Sudden Fear", a clock's pendulum rhythmically sways and its shadow fal...

"I Married a Deadman" echoes the sense of doom and personal impotence found in much of Cornell Woolrich's fiction. Francis Nev...

In Rudolph Maté's 1950 film "D.O.A." Frank Bigelow is looking for a murderer, his own. Bigelow has been poisoned and there is ...

If you happen to own a big city publishing firm and have a little problem, like the fact that you’ve murdered your girlfriend, and you want ...

Howard Hawks, director of such favorite movies as "His Girl Friday" and "Bringing Up Baby" is reported to have defined a...

Filmed in a style so classically noir it verges on parody, all the genre's defining elements are present in director Edgar G. Ulmer'...

In Horace McCoy's novella "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" the cycles and repetition of life are represented by the circul...

Frank Chambers' partner in murder, Cora, has gone to visit her dying mother and he takes a trip down the coast with a girl named Madge A...

They hadn't seen each other that evening, but it could also be said they had never truly seen each other at all. They worked together on...