Terry Meehan Film Series - Film Noir in the Forties: Hollywood After Dark

With a pace that quickens as tension mounts, the cast are after one thing: a jewel-encrusted statuette, "the stuff that dreams are made of."

With a pace that quickens as tension mounts, the cast are after one thing: a jewel-encrusted statuette, "the stuff that dreams are made of."

With a pace that quickens as tension mounts, the cast are after one thing: a jewel-encrusted statuette, "the stuff that dreams are made of."

Middle-aged store cashier Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is walking home through Greenwich Village after being celebrated by his employer for 25 years of service. They gave him a gold watch. Dressed in a tuxedo, he comes across Kitty March (Joan Bennett) who is being accosted by a drunken assailant (Dan Duryea). He saves the […]

Army marksman Bart Tare (John Dall) has loved guns since childhood. When he and his pals attend a carnival sideshow, Bart meets sharpshooting blonde Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins). It’s gun/love at first sight. They become a couple, but Annie takes a dim view of domestic bliss and craves money and excitement. Reluctantly, he joins […]

A socialite from Boston (Gene Tierney) meets a prominent novelist (Cornel Wilde) on a train heading for New Mexico. They get married and spend lots of time in the sunny outdoors. The film was shot in rich technicolor and earned cinematographer Leon Shamroy an Academy Award. A film noir in color? Ironically, the bright technicolor […]

Both Edward G. Robinson and Dame Judith Anderson are on the list of The American Film Institute’s all-time best villains. They play a brother and sister who live on a farm and have an adopted teenage daughter. They also have a secret: a haunted house in their nearby woods. Other characters become involved in what […]