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Noir City, the Home Game: Raw Deal and He Walked by Night

Even if you can’t watch them all, you’re definitely not gonna want to miss RAW DEAL. Claire Trevor is all set to bust her man out of the big house when she finds out there’s another dame in the equation,… Read More

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Noir City, the Home Game: To the Ends of the Earth and Whiplash

We kicked off last night’s double feature with TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. Dick Powell plays a treasury agent whose hunt for the elusive and mysterious leader of an international opium smuggling ring takes him to the titular ends… Read More

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Noir City, the Home Game: Blood on the Moon and Pursued

Noir City goes west in this hardboiled cowboy double feature staring (belated) birthday boy and one of Noir City’s favorite Leos, Robert Mitchum. First up BLOOD ON THE MOON. Laconic lone-wolf cowboy Robert Mitchum is reunited with old pal Robert… Read More

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Noir City, the Home Game: Cry of the City and The Naked City

First up CRY OF THE CITY Severely wounded but unrepentant cop killer Rome (Richard Conte) escapes from a secure hospital ward, but his childhood pal Lieutenant Candella (Victor Mature) is hot on his tail. The plot, involving a sleazeball lawyer,… Read More

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Noir City, the Home Game: I Walk Alone and T-Men

Remember how I was complaining in my previous post that NORTHSIDE 777 wasn’t really noir? Well, this double bill certainly is, and then some! First up, I WALK ALONE. Ride-or-die bootleggers Frankie (Burt Lancaster) and Dink (Kirk Douglas) have an… Read More

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Noir City, The Home Game: The Hunted, Call Northside 777 and Larceny

Yesterday’s matinee was THE HUNTED. Hot blond on ice Belita is a Noir City favorite and I’ve written this one up (more than once.) When you’ve been in this racket as long as I have, you get to the point… Read More

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Noir City, the Home Game: Hollow Triumph, A Double Life and The Velvet Touch

First up, our matinee HOLLOW TRIUMPH. I love this cheap and dirty mistaken identity noir, a lesser-known gem that I’ve seen multiple times and have written up before. I won’t bother to review it in detail again other than to… Read More

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Noir City, the Home Game: Key Largo and Sorry, Wrong Number.

It’s that most wonderful time of year again, Faustketeers. Time for Noir City Hollywood! Only this time, it’s a different time of year, in a different part of the city and I’m not even in that city anymore. As most… Read More

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Film Noir Hannibal

Heading into the Noir City trenches this weekend, Faustketeers, so I figured I’d get you all warmed up with this very important and not at all silly list I made and posted a while back on the Bad Place formerly… Read More

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A Noir City Valentine: SO EVIL MY LOVE and SLEEP MY LOVE

I’ve been living this strange half and half life over the past year. Half in LA and half up in Gig Harbor WA with Lady V, my elderly mom who lost her partner right around this time last year. I… Read More

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