*All times are PT. Please check your local listings to confirm dates and times.
Saturday, November 1, 11:00 AM
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1949): An embittered veteran (Robert Ryan) tracks down Frank R. Enley, a POW camp informer (Van Heflin) now a respected member of his community and married to a wife (Janet Leigh) unaware of his actions during the war. Mary Astor steals the film as the boozy bar fly and prostitute trying to help Enley. Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Saturday, Nov 9, 9:00 PM
No Sunday screening due to TCM’s all day salute to Robert Redford
THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBER (1950): Canadian jewel and fur thief Gerard Dennis (David Brian) escapes from prison and heads to New York State. A ruthless seducer, he uses then abandons, a string of women in his pursuit of loot. Ironically, a pick-up proves his downfall. The film is based on the real-life case of Gerard Dennis, known as a "society thief" after a string of jewel robberies netting a total of more than $600,000. From prison, Dennis granted permission for his story to be told on film. Keep your eyes peeled for Cleo Moore as “Vivacious Blonde at Airport” (uncredited). Dir. Peter Godfrey
Wednesday, November 5, 9:45 PM
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1963): In this late era noir, ex-G.I. Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) slowly begins to realize that he was brainwashed by the Koreans while he was a P.O.W. He soon suspects that his former comrade in arms Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), who is also the stepson of a presidential candidate, is being manipulated by the Communists Angel Lansbury gives a remarkable performance as Shaw’s icy mother. Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon novel. Dir. John Frankenheimer
Thursday, November 6, 12:00 AM
BLOW OUT (1981): In this neo-noir thriller (and American take on a Giallo), sound effects artist Jack (John Travolta), while out recording ambient sounds in a quiet park, happens upon an accident, a car careening off a bridge and into the water. He rescues the only survivor, Sally (Nancy Allen). The now dead driver was a governor running for president. Jack soon finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy to protect the reputation of the dead politician who was both drunk and with a woman who was not his wife at the time of his accident. If this seems vaguely familiar, writer/director De Palma, despite his attempts to down play it, was clearly inspired by Teddy Kennedy’s “Chappaquiddick incident”. Dir Brain De Palma
Thursday, November 6,
THE DARK TOWER (1943): In this Brit Noir, hypnotist Stephen Torg (Herbert Lom) goes to work in a circus hypnotizing aerialist Mary (Anne Crawford) so she can perform a dangerous stunt. Her partner and boyfriend Tom objects but no one listens to him. Phil falls in love with Mary who still loves Tom, can Stephen use his powers of hypnotism to manipulate the situation to his advantage? .Dir. John Harlow
Friday, November 7, 11:15 AM
PARTY GIRL (1958): Don’t miss this great Nick Ray film, not available on DVD, a gritty bringing down the racket story featuring an interesting love story between a beautiful showgirl (Cyd Charisse) and a gangster’s mouthpiece (Robert Taylor) set in Chicago during the mob infested nineteen twenties. See if you can see spot the scene Brian De Palma stole for The Untouchables. Dir. Nicholas Ray
Friday, November 7, 3:00 PM PT
SMART GIRLS DON’T TALK (1948): Broke socialite Linda (Virginia Mayo) strikes up a romance with Marty (Bruce Bennett), the charming owner of a night club/gambling joint. She comes to regret the liaison when his sinister side surfaces. Dir. Richard Bare
Saturday, November 8, 1:15 AM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941): How do I love this movie, let me count the ways… In arguably the first, and greatest, film noir, hard-boiled detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets caught up in the deadly search for a priceless statue. Along the way he tangles with a murderous liar (Mary Astor), a foppish thug (Peter Lorre) and an obese mastermind (Sydney Greenstreet). Director John Huston brilliantly adapted it from the Dashiell Hammett novel and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay. The film also garnered nominations for Best Picture and for Sydney Greenstreet, in his film debut, Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Dir. John Huston
Saturday, November 8, 11:00 AM
MACAO (1952): Drifter Nick Cochran (Robert Mitchum) in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop by a ruthless gangster who plans an elaborate trap to kill him. An American salesman (William Bendix), a beautiful singer (Jane Russell) and the gangster’s sexy moll (Gloria Grahame) make plenty of trouble for him too. Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Saturday, Nov 8, 9:15 PM & Sunday, Nov 9, 7:00 AM
BLIND SPOT (1947): A perfect example of the ingenious, low-rent glory of "B" movies. Veteran Columbia star Chester Morris snuck away from his popular "Boston Blackie" series to deliver a terrific performance as a hard-luck writer accused of murdering his publisher. Twists and turns come fast and furious as he tries to puzzle his way out of the tightening noose. Costarring gorgeous Constance Dowling and an array of familiar film noir mugs. Dir. Robert Gordon
Sunday, November 9, 8:30 AM
THE LETTER (1940): Bette Davis gives a masterful performance as a married woman claiming self-defense in the murder of a fellow Britisher on her husband’s rubber plantation in Malay. This succeeds both as a film noir and an incisive look into colonialism. Herbert Marshall gives a deeply empathetic performance as the loving husband. Watch for Victor Sen Yung as a solicitous lawyer’s clerk. Based on a play by Somerset Maugham, dramatized from his own short story. Nominated for seven Oscars: Best Picture; Best Actress in a Leading Role, Bette Davis; Best Actor in a Supporting Role, James Stephenson; Best Director, William Wyler; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Tony Gaudio; Best Film Editing, Warren Low; Best Music, Original Score, Max Steiner. Dir. William Wyler
Monday, November 10, 11:15 AM
THE UNSUSPECTED (1947): The star and producer of a radio crime series, a rather nasty Claude Rains, commits the perfect crime in order to cover some irregularities concerning his late niece’s estate, only to have his plans thwarted when his niece Constance Bennett is found alive and well. Audrey Totter plays her slutty cousin who stole her fiancé and now has designs on her husband. Based on the novel by Charlotte Armstrong. Dir. Michael Curtiz
Tuesday, November 11, 2:00 AM
VILLAIN (1971): In this British neo-noir, a paranoid British gangster (Richard Burton) thinks everybody is a potential stoolie, the character was modeled on the notorious British mobster Ronnie Kray. Based on the novel The Burden of Proof by James Barlow. Dir. Michael Tuchner
Wednesday, November 12, 4:00 AM 1:15 PM
4:00 AM
I AM WAITING (1957): In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, a restaurant manager and former boxer (Yujiro Ishihara) saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. Featuring expressionist lighting and bold camera work, this was one of Nikkatsu’ film studio’s early successes. The studio released a series of noirs to compete with popular American and French films at Japanese box offices. Dir. Koreyoshi Kurahara
5:45 AM
MACAO (1952): Drifter Nick Cochran (Robert Mitchum) in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop by a ruthless gangster who plans an elaborate trap to kill him. An American salesman (William Bendix), a beautiful singer (Jane Russell) and the gangster’s sexy moll (Gloria Grahame) make plenty of trouble for him too. Dir. Josef von Sternberg
7:15 AM
BERLIN EXPRESS (1948): A multinational group of travelers find themselves thrown together to thwart the assassination of a prominent pacifist scientist by defiant Nazis bent on destabilizing post-war Germany. This improbable but intelligent thriller is a true rarity: a shot-on-location look at the resistance Allied powers faced reorganizing the vanquished German citizenry in the aftermath of WWII. Robert Ryan (the laconic American) and Merle Oberon (trying a sketchy French accent) head a cast comprising representatives of each Allied Zone: Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States. Although spiced with shadowy noir dramatics (lensed by Oberon’s husband, Lucien Ballard), the film’s most fascinating aspect is its time capsule view of global geopolitics in the rapidly closing window between the Marshall Plan and the building of the Berlin Wall. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
8:45 AM
JOURNEY INTO FEAR (1942): This playful film features Joseph Cotten, who adapted the novel for the screen, as a munitions expert who gets tangled up in an espionage plot in Turkey. Watch for Orson Welles as an amorous army officer. Karl Struss served as director of photography. Dir. Norman Foster
10:00 AM
LA BÊTE HUMAINE (1938): In the 1930s, Jean Gabin brought a gallery of doomed anti-heroes to life with a blend of poetic fatalism and blunt proletarian defiance, becoming the first global icon of the noir spirit. He chose Jean Renoir to direct this adaptation of Émile Zola's novel about a working-class man whose "hereditary flaw" causes psychotic episodes. When he falls for the wife of a railway official (Simone Simon)l, herself damaged by abuse and exploitation, they are on track for inevitable tragedy. Renoir gives the film a gritty flavor, telling a bleak story with unsentimental empathy. Zola’s novel was also the base for Fritz Lang’s 1954 film noir, Human Desire. Dir. Jean Renoir
11:45 AM
BACKGROUND TO DANGER (1943): An American (George Raft) gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre add to the fun. A little piece of trivia, Raft had an earlier chance to act with that duo; he turned down first dibs on John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1939) and Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942). He also turned down an earlier chance to work with director Raoul Walsh on High Sierra (1941). What might have happened? Dir. Raoul Walsh
Wednesday, November 12, 3:15 PM – 7:30 PM
3:15 PM PT
PÉPÉ LE MOKO (1937): Parisian crook Pépé le Moko (the legendary Jean Gabin) thrives within Algiers's Casbah, where the locals protect him from the police. But a canny cop uses romance as bait when Pepe falls for a beautiful tourist. Exhibit A in the argument that the French were the first to do "noir." Dir. Julien Duvivier
5:00 PM PT
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Foreign agents mistake suave and swinging advertising man Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) for a spy. He takes it on the lam and encounters a beautiful blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who may or may not be trusted. This film earned three Oscar nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color; Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen; and Best Film Editing. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday, November 13, 1:45 AM
THE 39 STEPS (1935): When a beautiful double agent he was trying to help gets killed, and he stands accused of the crime, vacationing Canadian Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) must go on the run across the U.K. both to save himself and to stop a spy ring trying to steal top-secret information. Along the way he handcuffs himself to lovely lass (Madeline Caroll) who thinks he’s a bad’un. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday, November 13, 1:45 AM – 5:00 PM
7:30 AM
TEN LITTLE INDIANS (1966): This adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel (AKA And Then There Were None), transplants the story of ten strangers brought to a modern house on an isolated English island to face death for their previously unpunished crimes of murder to an Austrian castle in the Alps. I have no idea why. Christopher Lee provided the pre-recorder gramophone voice of Mr. U. N. Owen, the strangers’ absent host. Dir. George Pollock
9:15 AM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938): A young bride-to-be Iris (Margaret Lockwood), traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty), who then disappears into thin air. When no believes Miss Froy even existed outside Iris’ imagination, including Dr. Hartz (Paul Lukas), a brain surgeon, she turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. A young musicologist (Michael Redgrave) helps her with her quest. based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
11:00 AM
MURDER SHE SAID (1961): When nobody believes she witnessed a murder, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) investigates herself along with her friend Jim Stringer, played by Rutherford’s husband Stinger Davis. Based on Agatha Christie’s 4:50 from Paddington. Trivia: Joan Dixon has a small part in the film and would go on to become the definitive Miss Marple in the BBC series that aired from 1984-1992. Dir. George Pollock
12:45 PM
THE LAST OF SHELIA (1973): Movie producer Clinton Greene hopes to solve the mystery surrounding his wife's death the year before by inviting the suspects aboard his yacht and engaging them in an elaborate mystery game. He assigns everyone a secret that they are not to share with anyone. Every day for the next six days, they will call into a port where they will be given clues to discover one person's secret. The game takes a deadly twist when a murder takes place. The guests comprise Richard Benjamin, James Mason, Joan Hackett, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, and Ian McShane. Co-writers Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins used to host murder mystery parlor games. Guests included producer and director Herbert Ross, who encouraged them to write a script based on this type of party. Dir. Herbert Ross
3:00 PM
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936): In this delightful follow up to The Thin Man, Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) return to their home in San Francisco determined to rest up from their previous New York adventures, but Nora’s snooty family unintentionally embroils them in a murder mystery. Joseph Calleia, Sam Levene, George Zucco and a young Jimmy Stewart add to the fun. Writers Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett received a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar nomination. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke
Saturday, November 13, 10:15 PM
BLACKMAIL (1929): Alice White (Anny Ondra) blows off a date with her steady beau Detective Frank Webber (John Longden) to see a charming young artist. The artist talks her into coming up to his studio and she kills him when he attempts to rape her. The next day, Frank discovers Alice’s glove at the crime scene and removes the evidence. A blackmailer (Donald Calthrop) who can place Alice at the scene of the crime then confronts the pair. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday, November 13, 11:45 PM
BECOMING HITCHCOCK: THE LEGACY OF BLACKMAIL (2024): This documentary, narrated by historian, critic and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell, explores the development of Alfred Hitchcock's signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films, Blackmail (1929). Dir. Laurent Bouzereau
Thursday, Nov 13, 10:15 PM – Friday, Nov 14, 1:00 AM
0:15 PM
BLACKMAIL (1929): Alice White (Anny Ondra) blows off a date with her steady beau Detective Frank Webber (John Longden) to see a charming young artist. The artist talks her into coming up to his studio and she kills him when he attempts to rape her. The next day, Frank discovers Alice’s glove at the crime scene and removes the evidence. A blackmailer (Donald Calthrop) who can place Alice at the scene of the crime then confronts the pair. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
11:45 PM
BECOMING HITCHCOCK: THE LEGACY OF BLACKMAIL (2024): This documentary, narrated by historian, critic and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell, explores the development of Alfred Hitchcock's signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films, Blackmail (1929). Dir. Laurent Bouzereau
Saturday, November 15, 12:30 PM – 4:15 PM
12:30 PM
THE SET-UP (1949): An aging boxer (Robert Ryan) defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight, believing that he can still be a champ. Audrey Totter plays his devoted wife who begs him to retire from boxing before he’s destroyed. Dir. Robert Wise
2:00 PM
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958): Orson Welles’ masterpiece about a narcotics agent (Charlton Heston) who unintentionally put his wife (Janet Leigh) in grave danger when he investigates a crooked cop (Orson Welles). Utterly fantastic supporting performance by Marlene Dietrich as a Mexican Gypsy whore- no, really, I mean it. Dir. Orson Welles
Saturday, November 15, 7:00 PM
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975): In New York city, a bank robbery turns into a media circus when Sonny (Al Pacino) tries to steal enough money for his lover's (Chris Sarandon) sex change operation and takes the bank’s employees hostage. The film earned five Oscar nominations, only Frank Pierson won the Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for the film, based on true events. Surprisingly co-star John Cazale was not nominated for his excellent performance as Sal, Sonny’s partner in crime. Dir. Sidney Lumet
Saturday, Nov 15, 9:15 PM & Sunday, Nov 16, 7:00 AM
HIGH AND LOW (1963): In this Japanese noir, based on one of Ed McBain’s 87 Precinct novels, King’s Ransom, kidnappers mistake a chauffeur's son for the child of a wealthy shoe manufacturer (Toshiro Mifune). The film functions as both as mystery and an exploration of Japan’s new class system, based on wealth rather than tradition. Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Sunday, November 16, 12:00 AM
CAGED (1950): This film noir in women-in-prison clothing details the transformation of a young, naïve and pregnant widow (Eleanor Parker) into a hardened convict. She learns the hard way how to survive in the big house from a sadistic prison guard (Hope Emerson) and the failure of a good-hearted warden (Agnes Moorehead) to reform the prison. This is more than an exploitation flick, it’s an intelligent social drama and raises a still prescient issue facing the American penal system, is it reforming first time offenders or just turning prisoners into career criminals? Nominated for three Oscars including Best Actress for Parker and Supporting Actress for Emerson. Dir. John Cromwell
Sunday, November 16, 2:45 PM
THE BIRDS (1963): Beautiful heiress Melanie (Tippi Hedren) takes a sudden fancy to a handsome architect Mitch (Rod Taylor) who lives in a remote Californian coastal village with his overly affectionate mother (Jessica Tandy) and little sister. Creepily Melanie follows him there and pretends to be an old friend of his ex-girlfriend (Suzanne Pleshette). Even more creepily, after her arrival, the village is besieged by flocks of killer birds. Look for noir toughie Charles McGraw in a supporting role. Legendary animator turned special effects expert Ub Iwerks won the Oscar for Best Effects, Special Visual Effects for his work on the film. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Monday, November 17, 8:00 AM
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952): Robert Ryan gives an emotionally charged performance as a city cop on the verge of a breakdown. After nearly killing a suspect, he’s sent out to the country to find the murderer of a young woman. There he encounters the blind sister (Ida Lupino) of the main suspect. Can he overcome his personal demons and connect with her? Added bonus: “John Ford Players” Ward Bond and Olive Cary portray the murdered girl’s parents. Dir. Nicholas Ray
Monday, November 17, 11:15 AM – 5:00 PM
11:15 AM
HIGH SIERRA (1941): Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a hardened criminal with a heart of gold, who finds love, redemption, and a not so happy ending with the lovely and vulnerable Ida Lupino in this noir classic. This was one of three roles that George Raft refused that Bogart accepted, ironically the three roles that shot him into stardom after years of playing second bananas at Warner Brothers to among others, George Raft. Dir. Raoul Walsh
1:00 PM
DARK PASSAGE (1947): Adapted from a story by David Goodis, this noir follows convicted wife murderer Vincent Parry’s (Humphrey Bogart) escape from jail and subsequent hunt for the real killer of his wife. Sympathetic stranger Irene (Lauren Bacall) encounters him during his jail break and aids him. Agnes Moorehead steals the show as Irene’s shrewish friend who knew Vincent and his wife prior to the murder. Dir. Delmer Daves
3:00 PM
M (1931): Peter Lorre is unforgettable as serial killer Hans Beckert, preying on children and whistling “In the Hall of the Mountain King” as he works. When the ensuing police crackdown proves bad for criminal business, all of Berlin’s underworld joins the manhunt for Beckert. This classic crime thriller was Fritz Lang’s first sound film, as well as the director’s personal favorite. Dir. Fritz Lang
Monday, November 17, 9:00 PM
VERTIGO (1958): An old friend hires ex-cop Scotty (Jimmy Stewart) to follow his beautiful but emotionally disturbed wife (Kim Novak) through the gorgeously shot streets of San Francisco. Stewart gives an intensely dark performance as Scotty spirals further and further into romantic obsession. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Tuesday, November 18, 3:00 AM
CAT PEOPLE (1942): Produced by the legendary Val Lewton, this atmospheric and heartbreaking horror film tells the tale of Irina (Simone Simon), a beautiful and charming Serbian emigree who meets and marries all-American architect Oliver (Kent Smith). She is reluctant to consummate their marriage, and he turns to his friend and coworker Alice (Jane Rudolph) with tragic and frightening results. Producer Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur styles merge to produce one of the greatest films of the genre. Lensed by the noted noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Wednesday, November 19, 1:00 PM
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1958): A British lawyer (Charles Laughton) gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder. Laughton’s wife Elsa Lanchester plays the nurse trying to keep him on his diet and off the cigars and brandy. This first-rate film features both one of Tyrone Power’s and one of Marlene Dietrich’s best performances Based on the play written by Agatha Christie, adapted from her own short story. The film was nominated for six Oscars: Best Picture, Arthur Hornblow Jr.; Best Actor in a Leading Role, Charles Laughton; Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Elsa Lanchester; Best Director, Billy Wilder; Best Sound, Recording, Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD); and Best Film Editing, Daniel Mandell. Dir. Billy Wilder
Wednesday, November 19, 9:30 AM
MAN HUNT (1941): In this suspenseful noir based on Geoffrey Household's `939 novel Rogue Male, the Gestapo hunts down a sportsman (Walter Pidgeon) after he accidentally stumbles across Hitler's secret residence. He finds an unlikely ally in a lovely Cockney girl (Joan Bennett).Dir. Fritz Lang
Wednesday, November 20, 4:45 AM
BACKFIRE (1950): On Christmas Eve, wounded war veteran Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae), recovering from multiple surgeries is approached by a mysterious woman (Viveca Lindfors) who tell him that his army buddy (Edmond O'Brien) who disappeared has been in an accident and wants to commit suicide. Bob gets out of the hospital and is promptly questioned by the police about Steve, who they believe murdered a local gambler and racketeer. Bob and his nurse and girlfriend (Virginia Mayo) try to find evidence to clear him. Dir. Vincent Sherman
Thursday, November 20, 5:00 PM
POINT BLANK (1967): Existential neo-noir at its best. Lee Marvin stars as a wraith like criminal out to get his share of the loot from a robbery after his partner shots him, leaves him for dead and absconds both with all the money and based on the 1962 novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark his wife. Angie Dickinson co-stars as his sympathetic sister-in-law who aids him. Dir. John Boorman
Saturday, November 22, 5:00 PM – 9:30 PM
5:00 PM
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944): Barbara Stanwyck—in a platinum blonde wig—plays Phyllis Dietrichson—the consummate femme fatale who lures insurance salesman and all-around chump Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) into a plot involving murder and insurance fraud. His friend, and insurance adjuster, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) smells a rat. Nominated for seven Oscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Best Director; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Picture; Best Sound, Recording; and Best Writing, Screenplay. Dir. Billy Wilder
7:00 PM
CHINATOWN (1974): In this critically lauded neo-noir, a private eye (Jack Nicholson) unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder and then joins his widow (Faye Dunaway) in unearthing the corruption behind the crime in this physically beautiful but emotionally bleak neo-noir set in a morally bankrupt 1930s Los Angeles. Dir. Roman Polanski
Saturday, Nov 22, 9:30 PM & Sunday, Nov 23, 7:00 AM
THE STRIP (1951): Veteran and drummer Stanley Maxton (Mickey Rooney) moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club but becomes entangled with a racketeer (James Craig) and a nightclub dancer with ambitions for Hollywood (Sally Forrest) and ends up accused of murder. The film features Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra as well as Monica Lewis and Vic Damone as themselves. Much of the picture was shot on location in and around the Sunset Strip. Interiors were shot at popular nightclubs Mocambo and Ciro's and at restaurants Little Hungary and Stripps. Dir. László Kardos
Monday, November 24, 1:00 AM
PURPLE NOON (1960): This lush adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s renowned crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley stars a young and extremely handsome Alain Delon as the titular character. Phillipe Greenleaf hire Tom Ripley to travel to Italy to persuade his son Dickie to return home to San Francisco to take over the family business. Tom becomes enamored with Dickie’s bon vivant lifestyle and devises a plan to take it for himself. Dir. René Clément
Monday, November 24, 1:00 AM
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975): In New York city, a bank robbery turns into a media circus when Sonny (Al Pacino) tries to steal enough money for his lover's (Chris Sarandon) sex change operation and takes the bank’s employees hostage. The film earned five Oscar nominations, only Frank Pierson won the Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for the film, based on true events. Surprisingly co-star John Cazale was not nominated for his excellent performance as Sal, Sonny’s partner in crime. Dir. Sidney Lumet
Wednesday, November 26, 3:00 PM
A WOMAN’S FACE (1941): The soon to be queen of the noirs, Joan Crawford, starred in this suspenseful drama as a facially scarred blackmailer who’s given a new outlook on life after plastic surgery. Can she adjust to a normal life and stop her ex-accomplice’s nefarious plan to murder his nephew? Dir. George Cukor
Wednesday, November 26, 9:45 PM
NO WAY OUT (1987): When the young mistress (Sean Young) of the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman) is found murdered, a young Naval officer (Kevin Costner), who was her secret lover, must uncover the truth behind the crime before his affair with her is discovered and he becomes the fall guy in what appears to be a high-ranking conspiracy. Will Patton gives a career making performance as the Secretary of Defense’s aide who will stop at nothing to get his boss out of trouble. An update of John Farrow’s The Big Clock (1948) which was based on Kenneth Fearings’ novel of the same man. Dir. Roger Donaldson
Friday, November 28, 3:30 AM
BORN TO BE BAD (1950) A coterie of affluent San Franciscans is turned inside-out by the appearance of Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine), a sweet and demure waif who turns out to be "about as helpless as a wildcat." In short order, she replaces her cousin (Joan Leslie) in the affections of a millionaire philanthropist (Zachary Scott) while carrying on a torrid affair with a bohemian novelist (Robert Ryan). Dir. Nicholas Ray
Friday, November 28, 7:30 AM – 12:30 PM
10:30 AM
A STOLEN LIFE (1946): Wealthy aspiring painter Kate (Bette Davis) falls for Bill (Glenn Ford). Her manipulative twin Pat, also played by Davis, steals him away. Kate tries to concentrate on her art after the pair marries, taking lessons from a talented but arrogant painter (Dane Clark). A twist of fate gives her the chance to impersonate her sister and fulfill her dream of being Bill’s wife, but things do not go as planned. Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
1:00 PM
MILDRED PIERCE (1945): Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her performance as a woman who builds herself up from grass widow to successful restaurateur in a desperate effort to win the love of the most ungrateful brat in the history of cinema, her daughter Veda, brilliantly played by Ann Blyth. A marriage of convenience, adultery and murder ensue. At least Mildred has the greatest best friend ever, a wisecracking Eve Arden. Based on the James M. Cain story. Dir. Michael Curtiz
Saturday, November 29, 2:30 PM
THE STEEL TRAP (1952): Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten), an assistant manager of a bank, decides to steal a million from his employers on a Friday, figuring that he can escape to Brazil over the weekend to start a new life with no one the wiser until Monday. He takes his unsuspecting wife (Teresa Wright) with him. When she discovers the theft during what she believes to be a vacation, she tries to persuade him to return the money to the bank before it’s too late. Dir. Andrew Stone
Saturday, November 29, 5:00 PM
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955): Bogus preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) marries an outlaw’s widow (Shelly Winters in a stunning performance) in search of the dead man’s hidden loot. The widow’s son (Billy Chapin) sees through him and tries to keep the secret of the treasure location and protect his mother, sister and himself from Powell. Lillian Gish plays the force of good in opposition to Mitchum’s evil. Dir. Charles Laughton
Saturday, November 29, 9:00 PM & Sunday, November 30, 7:00 AM
POSTMARK FOR DANGER (1955): When a journalist dies and the woman (Terry Moore) who was supposedly killed in the car accident with him reappears, his artist brother (Robert Beatty) takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring. Director Guy Green went on to direct the excellent Hammer Studios, Brit Noir The Snorkel (1958). Dir. Guy Green
Mary Astor and Barry Kroeger in Act of Violence on November 1
Eddie Muller presents The Great Jewel Robber on November 9 on NOIR ALLEY.
Herbert Lom in The Dark Tower on November 6
Virginia Mayo and Bruce Bennett in Smart Girls Don't Talk on November 7
Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum in Macao on November 8
Chester Morris in Blind Spot presented by Eddie Muller on the November 8-9 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Richard Burton stars in Brit neo-noir Villain on November 11
Koreyoshi Kurahara's I Am Waiting on November 12
Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon in Berlin Express on November 12
Jean Gabin and Simone Simon in La bête humaine on November 12
Raoul Walsh's Background to Danger on November 12
Jean Gabin and Mireille Balin star in Pépé le Moko on November 12
Madeleine Carroll and Peter Donat in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps on November 13
Margaret Lockwood stars in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes on November 13
The Last of Sheila screens November 13
San Francisco settings in After the Thin Man on November 13
Hitchcock's Blackmail and Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail on November 13
Robert Ryan in The Set-up on November 15
Mercedes McCambridge menaces in Touch of Evil on November 15
John Cazale and Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon on November 15
Eddie Muller presents Kurosawa's thriller High and Low on the November 15-16 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Agnes Moorehead v. Hope Emerson in Caged on November 16
Hitchcock's The Birds arrives November 16
Bacall and Bogart star in High Sierra on November 17
Peter Lorre stars in Fritz Lang's classic M on November 17
Simone Simon in Cat People on November 18
Fritz Lang's Man Hunt screens November 19
Virginia Mayo and Gordon MacRae in Backfire on November 20
Double Indemnity screens November 22
Eddie Muller presents The Strip on the November 22-23 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Joan Crawford stars in A Woman's Face on November 26
Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan in Born To Be Bad on November 28
Glenn Ford and Bette Davis in A Stolen Life on November 28
oan Crawford and Eve Arden in Mildred Pierce on November 28
Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten in The Steel Trap on November 29
Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter on November 29
Eddie Muller presents Postmark for Danger on the November 29-30 edition of NOIR ALLEY