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1950s noir
see all genres ›Stylish pulp crime cinema continued to flourish after noir's founding decade, often taking more baroque or lurid directions as censorship slowly relaxed.
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Genres / Film noir / 1950s noir
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The Big Chase
As his expectant wife (Adele Jergens) enters the hospital in anticipation of the blessed event, cop Glenn Langan is off to the races, trailing payroll robbers (including Jim Davis and Lon Chaney Jr.) on a mad chase that goes from cars to rowboat to motorboat to helicopter. The chase sequence, captured in all its...Start your free trial to watch
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Breakdown
There is action and drama in and out of the ring when an ex-convict (William Bishop) becomes a rising heavyweight fighter and a championship contender. Then, on the eve of the big fight, he finds the man who can prove that he was framed for the crime for which he served time.Start your free trial to watch
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Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
When enemy agents obtain leaked secrets about a guided missile reservation, the chief of America's counterspy division (Howard St. John) and Scotland Yard's best investigator Ron Randell get on an investigative trail which quickly leads to a reservation secretary (Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty, Amanda Blake).Start your free trial to watch
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Danger Zone
When you deal with dames, you are in the DANGER ZONE, as the character of crime detector Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) learns in his inaugural mystery-drama. The private eye first cracks a case involving a smuggling ring, then tackles an assignment that involves blackmail, murder and film noir's top bad guy, Tom Neal.Start your free trial to watch
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David Harding, Counterspy
Based on the popular 1942-1957 network radio series created by Phillips H. Lord. Howard St. John is the Washington DC-based David Harding, head of a covert counter-espionage organization, charged with preventing top-secret scientific information from reaching the hands of America's enemies around the...Start your free trial to watch
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Fangs of the Wild
It's hunting season on the boy who cried wolf in this offbeat independent suspense film. The only-child of a mountain lodge owner (Onslow Stevens), grade-schooler Tad (Freddy Ridgeway), has a tendency to tell “tall tales” of his adventures in the forest alongside loyal hound Shep. Thus no one believes him...Start your free trial to watch
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FBI Girl
Fingerprints don't lie, which is why a state governor with a hidden criminal past wants a file card with his prints stolen from FBI headquarters. Not so fast: guardians of the law Cesar Romero and George Brent are there to make America secure! Raymond Burr at his sinister peak and an exciting helicopter-motorboat chase keep...Start your free trial to watch
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Fingerprints Don't Lie
Can fingerprints be faked? That's the question that crime specialist Richard Travis must ask himself when he finds Richard Emory's prints on the gun that was used to kill the town's mayor; but many, including the mayor's daughter, refuse to believe that Emory was responsible. More twists, and a second...Start your free trial to watch
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The Gambler and the Lady
A gambling kingpin's goal is to be accepted by high society. He leaves his girlfriend for a socialite, is swindled in a scam, then strong-armed by gangsters and ends up as a hood ornament on his jilted lover's sedan! Peter Jenkins directed THE GAMBLER AND THE LADY for Hammer Films (though it was rumored...Start your free trial to watch
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Hi-Jacked
Parolee/truck driver Jim Davis now wants to stick to the straight-and-narrow, but finds himself riding a highway of terror when his truck is hijacked and police suspect him because of his past record. The hijackers will stop at nothing to frame him and even frame his wife, unless fugitive Davis can deliver them to justice...Start your free trial to watch
