Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 11hIn "Chinatown at Midnight" (1949), interior designer Clifford Ward (Hurd Hatfield) steals a valuable jade vase from a Chinatown shop and guns down two people. The police have only one lead in the case: the sound of the killer's voice. #filmnoir 0112
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In 1930s Los Angeles, murder and corruption cloud the city's pastel vistas. He who controls the water supply is king, and private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) stumbles upon a scheme to grab land, money and natural resources from humble farmers. "Chinatown" (1974) #neonoir 61039
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In Jean Renoir's "La Chienne" (1931) - remade by Fritz Lang as "Scarlet Street" (1945) - timid cashier Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon), a Sunday painter, suffers through a hideous marriage. But worse is in store for him when he meets Lulu Pelletier (Janie Marèse). #filmnoir 0100
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Accountant and war hero Barry Amsterdam (Dennis O'Keefe) goes undercover to bust a corrupt insurance company run by Arnold Valent (Paul Stewart). A witness to Valent's wrongdoing has been murdered. Others may soon follow. "Chicago Syndicate" (1955) #filmnoir 0142
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Steve Nordstrom (Jimmy Lydon) is sprung from prison on an assault charge thanks to Lieut. Andy Doyle (Bill Elliott). But in his return to freedom he's assaulted and loses his memory. A job offer seems like a lucky break, but things turn dark. "Chain of Evidence" (1957) #filmnoir 081
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A parolee (Alain Delon) wastes no time in returning to a life of crime, as he plots a jewelry heist the day he's released. And who should tip him off about the baubles waiting to be lifted? The warden of the prison he just exited, of course. "Le Cercle Rouge" (1970). #neonoir 4495
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Whit Whittier (William Campbell) needed to steal to feed his family. Now he's on death row, where he becomes a skilled legal advocate and is able to stay his execution. But for how long? "Cell 2455, Death Row" (1955) #filmnoir 0111
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Leonora Eames (Barbara Bel Geddes) gets hitched to insane multi-millionaire Smith Ohlrig (Robert Ryan). She leaves him when he becomes abusive and finds work with Dr. Larry Quinada (James Mason). But getting free from Ohlrig is no easy matter. "Caught" (1949) #filmnoir 0152
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Small-time crook Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) steals a briefcase. But his luck turns sour when he realizes that the stolen attache is full of plans belonging to enemy agents — and Coley finds himself in a world of trouble. "The Cat Burglar" (1961) #neonoir 082
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sing Sing inmate Tommy Gordan (John Garfield) is offered temporary unsupervised parole to visit his ailing girlfriend. But that highly unusual privilege soon turns to ash. "Castle on the Hudson" (1940) #filmnoir 071
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Elisha Cook Jr., Victor Mature, ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ (1941). Elevator operators are mostly a thing of the past, but they live on in film noir and sometimes serve as the focal point of crime dramas. #filmnoir (Click link to read.) crimeonfilm.com/cable-guys-t... 0102
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wife murderers don't come any more suave than Edward "Teddy" Bare" (Dirk Bogarde) in "Cast a Dark Shadow" (1955). His initial plan to inherit his wife's fortune does not go as planned, so he takes a second stab at it. But Teddy may not be the master in this chess game. #filmnoir 1154
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Robert Mitchum, at his most menacing, is the psychotic ex-con hell bent on exacting revenge from the lawyer he holds responsible for his incarceration (Gregory Peck). The gentlemanly attorney is at wits' end — and so is his family. "Cape Fear" (1962) #PsychologicalThriller 2344
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lt. Andy Doyle (Bill Elliott) investigates the car-bombing murder of a policeman. He finds a connection between that killing and the murder of a former actress who ran a modeling agency — the joint had an interesting double purpose. "Calling Homicide" (1956) #PoliceDrama #Noir 091
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) gets thrown into the slammer for her part in a botched armed robbery. She must survive among hardened criminals and sadistic prison matron Evelyn Harper (Hope Emerson). With Agnes Moorehead as prison reformer Ruth Benton. "Caged" (1950) #filmnoir 2111
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026With its often languid pace, "Bullitt" (1968) lulls us into a trance-like state — until it doesn't. Hollywood had seen few gasoline-fueled spectacles like the tire-screeching, engine-growling anarchy this film unleashes amid the impossibly steep hills of San Francisco. #neonoir 3232
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ex-detective Johnny Blake (Edward G. Robinson) infiltrates the mob run by Al Kruger (Barton MacLane) and moves up in the organization. But gangster Nick "Bugs" Fenner (Humphrey Bogart) doesn't trust Blake, and soon the two will clash. "Bullets or Ballots" (1936). #gangsterfilm 0141
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sadistic prison security chief Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) cruelly manipulates convicts into informing on one another and breaking prison rules so that he can punish them. But inmate Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster) has been pushed too far — in "Brute Force" (1947). #filmnoir 2151
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Good citizen Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) seems to live the American dream. Happily married and a successful businessman, Eddie has it all. But he also has a dark past, and without warning it begins to catch up with him in unexpected ways. "The Brothers Rico" (1957) #filmnoir 1161
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A baby-faced teenage hoodlum with a lump of coal for a heart commits murder in a British seaside resort town. In "Brighton Rock" (1948), Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is a dark blot on a sunny community. But an amateur sleuth may prove to be his undoing. #filmnoir 0221
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026White linen suits, ceiling fans, smoky cantinas: "The Bribe" (1949) has it all. MGM's backlot stands in for a Central American fishing village, where histrionic villains Charles Laughton and Vincent Price add pizzazz to this agreeably woozy melodrama told in flashback. #filmnoir 2174
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." Maybe Jean-Luc Godard wasn't the first to utter that maxim, but he took it to heart in shooting "Breathless" (1960). Its nervous, choppy editing, wry comments on post-war France, and on film itself, make it a landmark. #filmnoir 0224
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Business is slow for fishing boat captain Harry Morgan (John Garfield) in "The Breaking Point" (1950). He reluctantly takes part in a human smuggling operation, telling himself that he's doing it to support his family, but it's just the beginning of his downward spiral. #filmnoir 1152
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sam Jaffe, Brad Dexter, Marilyn Monroe, Marc Lawrence, Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Louis Calhern, ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ (1950). The American Dream, film noir, and the price of respectability. (Click link to read.) #filmnoir crimeonfilm.com/the-american... 1172
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026World War I vet Matt Brady (John Payne) has a quick temper that gets him into scrapes. He loses his girlfriend and impulsively marries another. After following his brother into politics he can't avoid corrupting influences — his downfall is imminent. "The Boss" (1956) #filmnoir 0101
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said, "Born to Kill" (1947) is "a smeary tabloid fable" and "an hour and a half of ostentatious vice." Bosley just didn't get it. Lawrence Tierney's Sam Wilde remains one of noir's most frightening monsters. And it's all pure noir. #filmnoir 2263
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Madeleine Haley (Claire Trevor) and Johnny Macklin (Fred MacMurray) are both operatives stationed in Mexico who are working to bring down narcotics kingpin Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr). But, neither of them knows that the other is an agent, i"Borderline" (1950). #filmnoir 0152
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Rebellious cop Mike Carter (Lawrence Tierney) socks his boss and quits the force. He gets roped into a private job protecting a rich widow, but almost nothing about this charade is on the level. Smells like a fix and Carter's going to be the pigeon. "Bodyguard" (1948) #filmnoir 2191
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Young, talented boxer Charley Davis (John Garfield) makes headway in the fight game despite his mother's wishes that he'd hang up his gloves. Sleazy promotor Roberts (Lloyd Gough) begins to influence the boxer, forcing him to make tough choices. "Body and Soul" (1947) #filmnoir 0111
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What other film so thoroughly evokes the intoxicatingly beautiful, if gritty, Montmartre of the 1950s as does "Bob le flambeur" (1956)? Betting parlors, cafes and saloons are nocturnal sanctuaries for Bob and his cohorts as they wait for their luck to change. #filmnoir 1164
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, “The Maltese Falcon” (1941). Fedoras, flashbacks and sultry dames do not a film noir make. So, what does? (Click link to read). crimeonfilm.com/what-really-... 2184
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Whitney "Cam" Cameron's (Joseph Cotten) niece dies under strange circumstances and Cam begins to look with suspicion at his sister-in-law Lynne (Jean Peters) and fear for his nephew's life. But is he just imagining things? "A Blueprint for Murder" (1953) #filmnoir 0111
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) ends up on a blind date with womanizing calendar girl artist Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr). He plies her with booze and brings her upstairs to see his etchings. When the big lug turns up dead it looks bad for Norah. "The Blue Gardenia" (1953) #filmnoir 1191
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) is on the spot for his wife's murder in "The Blue Dahlia" (1946). A few other lurkers look like prime suspects. Could it be the nightclub owner she was having an affair with? Or maybe Johnny's Navy buddy, Buzz (William Bendix). #filmnoir 2304
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026New Yorker magazine film critic Pauline Kael called John Travolta and Nancy Allen "radiant" in this tale of an audio technician who accidentally records evidence of an assassination conspiracy. Director Brian De Palma proves himself a visionary. "Blow Out" (1981) #neonoir 2535
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Coen brothers' first feature film introduced their violent, brutally funny aesthetic. It's the story of an affair that sets off a murderous plot. E. Emmet Walsh as private detective Loren Visser is equal parts sleaze, menace and twisted humor. "Blood Simple" (1984) #neonoir 1517515
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026San Francisco society columnist Claire Cummings (Leslie Brooks) gets hitched to a rich dude, then shows off her mastery in the art of two-timing. Claire never met a man she couldn't play for a sucker, because she's ... you know, cold like ice. "Blonde Ice" (1948) #filmnoir 0131
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Marilyn Monroe, "Niagara" (1953). Fedoras, flashbacks and sultry dames do not a film noir make. So, what does? (Click link to read.) #filmnoir crimeonfilm.com/what-really-... 1171
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Violent convict Vincent Canelli (Edward G. Robinson) busts out of prison on the night he is to be executed. He takes a pack of hostages with him, including an injured convict, Peter Manning (Peter Graves), who leaves a trail of blood behind them. "Black Tuesday" (1954) #filmnoir 0131
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Two swimmers, Danny Parker (Sheldon Lawrence) and Kitty Tyndall (Joy Webster), attempt to cross the English Channel. When Kitty disappears in the fog, Danny is sure that foul play was involved. He and his brother Griff (John Ireland) investigate. "Black Tide" (1958) #mystery 0111
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Giovanni Colombo (Gene Kelly) returns to New York to find the men who killed his father. A friend sends him information that can help deport Italian criminals operating in New York. But gangsters kidnap a youngster to force Giovanni to back off. "Black Hand" (1950) #filmnoir 080
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Alcoholic pianist Martin Blair (Dan Duryea) is convinced that a heart-shaped brooch is a crucial clue in the investigation of his ex-wife's murder. In "Black Angel" (1946), suspicion builds around dodgy nightclub owner Mr. Marko (Peter Lorre). But darker truths emerge. #filmnoir 0182
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Stephen (Peter Reynolds), the troubled son of a university professor, accidentally kills a pedestrian, then turns to a life of petty crime. But the ante is upped when he murders a night watchman. "Black 13" (1953) #filmnoir 1100
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A buddy from Chicago gives newspaper columnist Johnny Denton (Richard Conte) red-hot info on local mobsters. The friend is involved with "charities," but his knowledge of gangland activities would almost make you think he's an insider. "The Big Tip Off" (1955). #crimedrama #noir 0111
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Lt. Duke Halliday (Robert Mitchum) isn't sure who to trust after a fat payroll is pried loose from his grasp. Joan Graham (Jane Greer) chases the same mug as Halliday, whose boss, Capt. Vincent Blake (William Bendix), joins in the fray. "The Big Steal" (1949). #filmnoir 0161
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026First-time viewers may find the film's labyrinthine plot challenging. No matter. We're immersed in Philip Marlowe's world and wherever he goes we gladly follow. Then, there's the Bogart-Bacall chemistry - always a treat to behold. "The Big Sleep" (1946) #filmnoir 2181
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Lloyd Gough, Audrey Totter, Richard Basehart, ‘Tension’ (1949). Urban life can be rough, but life away from big cities has its complications, too. tinyurl.com/yfuzj68h 1210
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026George La Main (John Barrymore, Jr.) turns 17 and witnesses his father take a thrashing from sports reporter Al Judge (Howard St. John). George prowls the streets with his father's gun and looks to settle a score. But things aren't as they seem. "The Big Night" (1951) #filmnoir 0100
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is on the trail of police corruption, as mobsters and bought-off cops scramble to get him off their backs. Fritz Lang explores the obsessions of an honest officer who's been driven to the brink, and the dark machinations of evil men. #filmnoir 0162
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is obsessed with bringing down mob kingpin Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). But Lt. Diamond is attracted to Brown's girlfriend, the suicidal Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), and that may cloud his investigation, in "The Big Combo" (1955). #filmnoir 2161
