FILM NOIR CATALOGUE: films
in my own collection which can be borrowed with a week's notice
(NB - list not updated since mid-2000, so I also have copies of many more
recent neo-noirs)
Ace in the Hole [aka The
Big Carnival]: 1951 - d Billy Wilder; Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling
After Dark, My Sweet: 1990
- d James Foley; Jason Patric; Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern; based on Jim
Thompson novel (notable mainly as so-so adaptation of Thompson nov.)
Angel Face: 1952/3 - d Otto
Preminger; Mitchum, Jean Simmons
Asphalt Jungle: 1950 -
d John Huston; Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe
Bad Influence: 1990 - d Curtis Hanson; Rob Lowe, James Spader
Bad Lieutenant: 1992 - d
Abel Ferrara; Harvey Keitel
Big Combo: 1955 - d Joseph H. Lewis; Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian
Donlevy
Big Heat: 1953 - d Fritz Lang; Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin
Big Lebowski: 1997 - d Joel Coen; Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi,
Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Big Sleep: 1978 - d Michael Winner; Robert Mitchum; Sarah Miles
Big Sleep: 1946 - d
Howard Hawks; Bogart, Bacall; Chandler's novel adopted by Faulkner
Big Steal: 1949 - d Don Siegel; Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Wm Bendix
Blood Simple: 1984 - d Ethan/Joel Coen; John Getz, Frances McDormand; Virgin sugg.
drawn from Cain novels
Blue Dahlia: 1946 -
d George Marshall; Alan Ladd, Veronic Lake, William Bendix; w: Chandler, from
his own story (only Chandler script done directly for screen)
Blue Steel: 1990 - d Kathryn Bigelow; Jamie Lee Curtis; Ron Silver
Blue Velvet: 1986 - d &
w David Lynch; Kyle MacLachlan, Isabelle Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura
Dern; one of most written-about of the neo-noirs
Body Heat: 1981 - d Lawrence Kasdan; WIlliam Hurt, Kathleen Turner
Boomerang: 1947 - d
Elia Kazan; Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J Cobb, Arthur Kennedy
Breathless: 1983 - d Jim McBride; Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky; based on Godard-Truffaut
film (of marginal interest as remake of A Bout de Souffle)
Bullitt: 1968 - d Peter Yates; Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline
Bisset
Cabinet of Dr Caligari: 1919 - d Robert Wiene; Werner Krauss; Conrad Veidt (Expressionist
influence on film noir)
Call Northside 777: 1948 - d Henry Hathaway; James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee
J. Cobb
Chinatown: 1974 - d Roman Polanski; Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway; one
of best of 70s neo-noir films (2 copies - 2nd with Robert Towne interview)
Chung King Express: 1994 - d Wong Kar-Wai
Citizen Kane: 1941 - d Orson
Welles; Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Everett Sloane
Cop: 1988 - d James B. Harris; James Woods, Charles Durning, Lesley
Ann Warren
Crimson Kimono: 1959 -
d Samuel Fuller; Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett
Crossfire: 1947 [on tape with Night of the Hunter] - d Dnytryk; Robert
Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Cry of the City: 1948
- d Robert Siodmak; Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Shelley Winters
D.O.A.: 1950 - d Rudolph
Mate; Edmund O'Brien, Pamela Britten; basic storyline is from German-made
1930 Siodmak film
Dangerous Female: 1931[Maltese Falcon] - d Roy Del Ruth; Bebe Daniels,
Ricardo Cortez; 1st screen version of Hammett's Maltese Falcon
Dark Corner: 1946 - d
Henry Hathaway; Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix
Dark Mirror: 1946 [on
tape with The Big Heat] - d Robert Siodmak; Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres
Dark Passage: 1947 - d Delmer
Daves; Bogart, Bacall, Agnes Moorehead; NB - based on David Goodis novel
Dead Reckoning: 1947 - d John Cromwell; Bogart, Lizabeth Scott
Deadline at Dawn: 1946
- d Harold Clurman; Susan Howard, Bill Williams; w: Clifford Odets, based
on Woolrich novel
Destiny Turns on the Radio:
1995 - d Jack Baran; James Belushi, Quentin Tarantino, Nancy Travis
(whimsical variation on the crook-road movie, not really very noirish, but
clearly playing with the theme of doomed lovers v 'destiny')
Detour: 1945 - d Edgar
G. Ulmer; Tom Neal, Ann Savage
Devil in a Blue Dress: 1995 - d Carl Franklin; Denzel Washington; Jennifer Beals (based
on Walter Mosley novel)
Dirty Harry: 1971 - d Don Siegel; Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni
Double Indemnity: 1944 - d Billy Wilder; Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck; based
on James M. Cain novel; screenplay, Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler
File on Thelma Jordan: 1949
[NB: copy missing first 5-10 mins.] - d Robert Siodmak; Barbara
Stanwyck, Wendell Corey
Force of Evil: 1948 - d Abraham Polonsky (& w Polonsky & Ira Wolfert, from novel
Tucker's People);
John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson
Freaks: 1932 - d Tod Browning; Wallace Ford; Olga Baclanova (not, strictly
speaking, a film noir, but some interesting similarities)
Get Carter: 1971 - d Mike Hodges; Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland,
John Osborne
Getaway, The: 1994 - d
?; Alex Baldwin, Kim Bassinger (mainly of interest as film of Thompson novel)
Gilda: 1946 - d Charles Vidor; Rita Hayworth; Glenn Ford
Goodfellas: 1990 - d Martin Scorsese; Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci,
Paul Sorvino, Lorraine Bracco
Grifters, The: 1990 - d Stephen Frears; John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Benning;
scripted by Donald Westlake, based on Jim Thompson novel
Gun Crazy: 1950 - d Joseph H Lewis; John
Dall, Peggy Cummins
Hand Gun: 1993 - d Whitney Ransick; Seymour Cassel, Treat Williams, Michael
Rapaport
Hard Boiled: 1995/6 - d John Woo; Chow Yun Fat; Tony Leung
His Kind of Woman: 1950 - d John Farrow; Robert Mitchum; Jane Russell
Hot Spot: 1990 - d
Dennis Hopper; Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly; based on Charles
Williams' Hell Hath No Fury
Human Desire: 1954 [on tape with You Only Live Once] - d Fritz Lang;
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford; based on Zola
Hustle: 1975 - d Robert Aldrich; Burt Reynolds; Catherine Deneuve;
Ben Johnson
I Wake Up Screamig: 1942
- d H Bruce Humberstone; Victor Mature, Betty Grable (a 'nearly noir'
film with portrait of Cornell Woolrich as detective)
In a Lonely Place: 1950 -
d Nicholas Ray; Bogart, Gloria Grahame
Jackie Brown: 1997 - d Quentin Tarantino; Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Bridget
Fonda, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton
Johnny Eager: 1941 - d Mervyn LeRoy; Robert Taylor; ana Turner (on tape with Side Street)
Journey into Fear: 1942
- d Norman Foster; Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Agnes Moorehead; based
on Ambler novel, scripted by Welles
Kalifornia:1990s - d
Dominic Sena; Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis
Key Largo: 1948 - d John Huston; Bogart; Edward G Robinson
Kill Me Again: 1989 -
d John Dahl; Joanne Whalley-Kilmer , Val Kilmer, Michael Madsen
Killer Inside Me: 1975 - d Burt Kennedy; Stacy Keach (based on Jim Thompson novel)
Killer, The: 1989 - d
John Woo; Chow Yun-fat; Danny Lee
Killer's Kiss: 1955 - d Stanley Kubrick; Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith
Killers, The: 1946 - d Robert Siodmak; Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster;
based on Hemingway story, scripted in part by John Huston
Killing Zoe: 1994/5 - d Roger Avary; Eric Stoltz; Julie Delpy
Killing, The: 1956 - d Stanley Kubrick; Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards;
scripted by Jim Thompson, based on Lionel White's Clean Break (basis of Reservoir Dogs)
King of New York: 1990 - d Abel Ferrara; Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne,
David Caruso
Kiss Me Deadly: 1955 - d Robert Aldrich; Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker; based
on Mickey Spillane novel
Kiss of Death: 1947 (&
1995 version) - d Henry Hathaway; Victor Mature, Richard Widmark (1st role
as laughing psycho); screenplay, Ben Hecht & Charles Lederer, from a story
by Eleazar Lipsky; cf 1995 version; d Barbet Schroeder; David Caruso, Samuel
L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: 1950
- d Gordon Douglas; James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond; based on
Horace McCoy novel
LA Confidential: 1997 - d Curtis Hanson; Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce,
Danny DeVito, Kim Basinger
Lady from Shanghai: 1948 - d Orson Welles; Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth
Lady Vanishes: 1938 -
d Hitchcock; Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Last Man Standing: 1995 - d Walter Hill; Bruce Willis; Christopher Walken; Bruce
Dern (based on Kurosawa's script
for Yojimbo, which also was adapted in Sergio Leone's Fistful of
Dollars - and which was itself based on Hammett's Red Harvest)
Last Seduction: 1994 - d John Dahl; Linda Fiorentino; Peter Berg, Bill Pullman
Laura: 1944 - d Otto
Preminger; Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Little Caesar: 1930 - d Mervyn LeRoy; Edward G Robinson; Douglas Fairbanks
Jr (2 copies - 2nd on tape with Mayor of Hell)
Long Goodbye: 1973 - d Robert Altman; Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden (
Love and a .45: 1995 -
d C. M. Talkington; Gil Bellows, Renee Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Peter
Fonda
M: 1931 - d Fritz
Lang; Peter Lorre (German Expressionism rather than -strictly speaking - noir)
Maltese Falcon: 1941 -
d John Huston; Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet
Mask of Dimitrios: 1944
- d Jean Negulesco; Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott; adapted
from Eric Ambler
Mayor of Hell: 1933 - d Archie Mayo; James Cagney (on tape with Little
Caesar)
Mildred Pierce: 1945 - d Michael Curitz; Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve
Arden; based on James M Cain novel
MillerŐs Crossing: 1990 -
d Joel Coen; Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturo, Jon Polito, Marcia
Gay Harden
Mob, The: 1951 - d Robert Parrish; Broderick Crawford; Ernest Borgnine;
(on tape with Nightfall)
Murder Inc: 1951 [US title:
The Enforcer] - d Windust & Raoul Walsh (uncredited); Bogart; Mostel
Murder, My Sweet (Farewell,
My Lovely): 1945 - d Edward Dmytryk; Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne
Shirley; adapted from Chandler novel by John Paxton
Mute Witness: 1996 - d Anthony Waller
Narrow Margin: 1952 - d Richard Fleischer; Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor; w Earl Fenton
Night and the City: 1992 -
d Irwin Winkler; de Niro, Jessica Lange
Night of the Hunter: 1955 - d Charles Laughton; Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters,
Lillian Gish
Nightfall: 1956 - d Jacques Tourneur; Aldo Ray; Brian Keith; Anne Bancroft
(adaptation of David Goodis novel)
Nightmare Alley: 1947 - d Edmund Goulding; Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell; based on William
Lindsay Gresham novel
No Way Out: 1986 - d Roger Donaldson; Kevin Costner; Gene Hackman; Sean
Young (adaptat. of Farrow's 1947 film The Big Clock, which was based
on Kenneth Fearing's novel)
Nobody Lives Forever: 1946
- d Jean Negulesco; John Garfield, Geralding Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan
Nora Prentiss: 1947 -
d Vincent Sherman; Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith
Notorious:1946 - d
Hitchcoock; Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains; w: Ben Hecht
Obsession: 1949 - d Dmytryk; Robert Newton
On Dangerous Ground: 1951
- d Nicholas Ray; Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino
One False Move: 1992 -
d Carl Franklin; Cynda Williams, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton
Out of Sight: 1998 - d Steven Soderbergh; George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez,
Ving Rhames
Out of the Past (Build My
Gallows High): 1947 - d Jacques Tourneur; Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk
Douglas, based on Geoffrey Homes, Build My Gallows High; James M Cain as uncredited
scriptwriter
Phantom Lady: 1944 - d
Robert Siodmak; Franchot Tone, Ella Raines
Pick-up on South Street: 1953 - d Samuel Fuller; Richard Widmark; Jean Peters; Thelma
Ritter
Postman Always Rings Twice:
1946 - d Tay Garnett; Lana Turner, John Garfield; based on James M
Cain novel
Psycho: 1960 - d Hitchcock; Anthony Perkins; Janet Leigh; Vera Miles
Public Enemy: 1931 - d William A. Wellman; James Cagney, Jean Harlow
Pulp Fiction: 1994 - d
& w Tarantino; John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson
Rage in Harlem: 1991 - d Bill Duke; Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Danny
Glover; adapted from Chester Himes
Rear Window: 1954 - d
Hitchcock; James Stewart, Grace Kelly; based on Cornell Woolrich story
Reckless Moment: 1949 - d Max Ophuls; James Mason; Joan Bennett
Red Rock West: 1994 - d John Dahl; Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle
Reservoir Dogs: 1992 -
d & w Tarantino; Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
Scarlet Street: 1945 -
d Fritz Lang; Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Seven: 1995
- d David Fincher; Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow
Shadow of a Doubt: 1942 - d Hitchcock; Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright
Shanghai Gesture: 1941 - d Josef von Sternberg; Gene Tierney; Walter Huston;
Victor Mature
Side Street: 1950 - d Anthony Mann; Farley Granger; Cathy O'Donnell
Slightly Scarlet: 1956 - d Allan Dwan; Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming, John Payne; adapted
from James M. Cain novel
Sorry, Wrong Number: 1948
- d Anatole Litvak; Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Spellbound: 1945 - d
Hitchcock; Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman
Spiral Staircase: 1945 [NB
on tape with Laura - & missing last min] - d Robert Siodmak; Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Straight Time: 1978 - d Ulu Grosbard; Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton,
Gary Busey, Theresa Russell
Stranger on the Third Floor:
1940 [NB on tape with Night & the City, '92] - d Boris Ingster;
Peter Lorre
Strangers on a Train: 1951
- d Hitchcock; Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Sunset Boulevard: 1950 - d Billy Wilder; William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich
von Stroheim
Suspicion: 1941 - d
Hitchcock; Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
Taxi Driver: 1976 - d
Martin Scorsese; Robert de Niro, Cybill Shephard, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
They Live by Night: 1949
[on tape with 'Kiss Me Deadly' doc.] - d Nicholas Ray; Farley Granger,
Cathy O'Donnell; based on Edward Anderson's Thieves Like Us (N. relat with Altman's film of the Anderson
novel, as well as with Lang's You Only Live Once)
Thieves Like Us: 1973 - d Robert Altman; Keith Carradine; Shelley Duvall
Things to Do in Denver When YouŐre
Dead: 1995 - d Gary Fleder; Steve Buscemi, Andy
Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Treat Williams
Third Man: 1949 - d
Carol Reed; w Graham Greene; Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard
This World, Then the Fireworks: 1997 - d Michael Oblowitz; Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Sheryl
Lee
To Have and Have Not: 1944 - d Howard Hawks; Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter
Brennan
Touch of Evil: 1958 - d Welles; Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles; based on
Whit Masterson, Badge of Evil
Trigger Happy: 1997 - d Larry Bishop; Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Gabriel
Byrne, Ellen Barkin
True Confessions: 1981 - d Ulu Grosbard; Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Charles
Durning
True Romance: 1993 - d
Tony Scott; Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman;
w Tarantino
Twelve Monkeys: 1995 - d Terry Gilliam; Bruce Willis; Brad Pitt, Madeleine
Stowe (source film, La Jetee,
shelved separately)
Underworld USA: 1960 - d Samuel Fuller; Cliff Robertson; Beatrice Kay
Usual Suspects: 1995 -
d Bryan Singer; Stephen Baldwin; Gabriel Byrne; based
on script (story?) by Christopher McQuarrie
Vertigo: 1958 - d
Hitchcock; James Stewart, Kim Novak
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?: 1962 - d Robert Aldrich; Bette Davis;
Joan Crawford (some gothic excesses, but also connexions with fn)
Whirlpool: 1949 - d
Otto Preminger; Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer; script Hecht &
other left-wingers
White Heat: 1949 - d
Raoul Walsh; James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
White Sands: 1992 - d Roger Donaldson; Willem Dafor, Mary E Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke
Window, The: 1949 [on tape
with Rear Window] - d Ted Tetzlaff; Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy,
Barbara Hale, adapted from Cornell Woolrich story, The Boy Cried Murder
Woman in the Window: 1944
- d Fritz Lang; Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett
You Only Live Once: 1937
- d Fritz Lang; Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane
Young & Innocent: 1937
- d Hitchcock; Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney