He had looks, charm, and killer instinct! Beneath his clean-cut looks...was a cold-blooded killer. Robert Wagner stars as Bud Corliss, a darkly handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he'd do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime...until the dead girl's sister begins to unravel Bud's...

"According to a legend, if three strangers gather together before the fabled idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor and a drunken thief in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real"--Container.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller takes a new identity, with ironic results.

The only true 'film noir' ever directed by a woman, this thriller ... is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by [a] psychopathic serial killer ..

An analysis of Hollywood films that blend elements of musicals and film noir, from the author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers. In her pioneering...

Returning to the city from her wealthy employer's residence, Joyce Willecombe spots two armed men on the train. She reports them to the conductor who radios the station's police. Once at Union Station, she points out the men to Lt. William Calhoun, who discovers that the gunmen are members of a gang who have kidnapped her employer's blind daughter, and are seeking a ransom. The Chicago police, headed by inspector Donnelly, and the FBI are both called...

A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.

In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...

With fascinating detail, Stanley Kubrick lays bare the intricate inner-planning of a racetrack heist by a deadly mastermind (Sterling Hayden) and his crew. Co-stars Coleen Gray.

A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....