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Subgenre Sampler
An Inspector Calls (1954)- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham - Alastair Sim, superb here as the titular inspector, bears down on a smug upper crust family whose closely–guarded secrets are exposed to…
Caine Mutiny, The (1954)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Humphrey Bogart - Solid action with unstable Ship's Captain Humphrey Bogart contending with mutinies and typhoons.
Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly - An ageing tennis champion arranges the death of his wife for her inheritance. Hitch adapts the chilling stageplay, obviously well at home with the…
Good Die Young, The (1954)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Sir Stanley Baker, Joan Collins… - Fiery British heist–noir with a debt–burdened Laurence Harvey leading a motley crew of down–on–their–luck military men…
Les Diaboliques (1954)- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse… - Simone Signoret stars as one of two women who conspire to murder the man they share – a sadistic schoolmaster. Iconic French thriller with a…
Life at Stake, A (1954)- Dir. Paul Guilfoyle
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglas Dumbrille… - Minor noir elevated by the presence of Lansbury as a seductress who's business proposition to a struggling architect may not be strictly financial.
Lifeboat (1954)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix - Enterprising thriller staged entirely within the confines of a lifeboat. Its simplistic anti–Nazi politic is perhaps redeemed by Tallulah…
Night People (1954)- Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork… - Talky thriller with Gregory Peck as a Colonel trying to negotiate the release of a young G.I. held in East Germany. Plenty of political chicanery and…
Rear Window (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Grace Kelly - Convalescing photographer Jimmy Stewart observes what may have been a murder in an opposing apartment. A Hitchcock must.
Ring Of Fear (1954)- Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien… - Campy thriller with lion tamer Clyde Beatty and crime writer Mickey Spillane, appearing as themselves, teaming up to track a killer obsessed with a…
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