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Subgenre Sampler
Niagara (1952)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters… - This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
All About Eve (1950)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders… - Bette Davis is in her element as ageing Broadway star Margot Channing, under threat of the hidden menace of an ambitious young actress. A scathing…
Three Secrets (1950)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman - Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
Letter to Three Wives, A (1949)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern… - Three women each hear from a friend that she is about to run off with one of their husbands. Replete with characteristically sharp dialogue from the…
Gun Crazy (1948)- Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. John Dall, Peggy Cummins - Cocked with outstanding set pieces, daring twists and a desperate, exciting romanticism, this 'B–movie' thriller makes the grade with any of…
Snake Pit, The (1948)- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Celeste Holm - Hollywood melodrama that gives serious attention to the subject of mental illness with Olivia de Havilland (in a career–best performance) as a…
Gilda (1946)- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready - Rita Hayworth defines the femme fatale for Hollywood in this sassy love–triangle musical set in Latin America. Glenn Ford and George Macready…
Leave Her to Heaven (1946)- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde - Beware the beautiful woman! Gene Tierney makes a gorgeous yet domesticated vamp whose suffocating personality mutates into murderous frustration.…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin… - Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
Detour (1945)- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage - Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
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