Film Studies - Film Noir (and its offspring) Filmography
updated (07/06)

The 39 steps (1935) 86 min.
The best known of Hitchcock’s British films, this civilized spy yarn follows the escapades of Richard Hannay (Robert donat), a man who stumbles into a conspiracy and is falsely accused of murder. Hannay is chased across the Scottish moors while he tries to find those responsible. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 49, HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 337

5 film noir killer classics (1945-1950) 540 min.
Each disc contains one killer classic plus two supporting features: D.O.A. (1950), Detour (1945), The Stranger (1946), Scarlet Street (1945), Killer Bait (1949), and Film Noir extra features. DVD 930-935

Akira Kurosawa’s Stray dog (1949) 122 min.
Set in Tokyo during the late 1940s, the film captures the chaos and humiliation that existed in Japan immediately after World War II. When detective Murakami loses his revolver, he must descend into Tokyo's underworld and face the killer who has taken it. DVD 816

Alphaville une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution = Alphaville (1965) 99 min.
Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion. DVD 136, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 209

Apartment zero (1988) 114 min.
Set in modern day Buenos Aires. Jack Carney and Adrian LeDuc and two very different men but both are caught in an intricate web of deceit, perversion and murder. Adrian is reserved, stand-offish, and desperately lonely. Jack is strikingly handsome, charming, and alluring. One of them is a cold-blooded, serial killer. VHS 942

Der Amerikanische freund = The American friend (1977) 127 min.
A psychological thriller set in New York and Hamburg, Germany, that makes a statement about American gangster films and the Americanization of European cinema and lifestyles. Wender's film tells of the encounter between an American con artist and a German craftsman. Hamburg picture framer Jonathan is an ordinary man who believes he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His "American friend" Ripley introduces him to a French gangster who offers him money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris. DVD 1686, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 199

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud = Elevator to the gallows (1958) 87 min.
Malle's feature film debut. Love and fear produce death and deceit in this murder drama in which two lovers (Maurice Ronet as Julien Tavernier and Jeanne Moreau as Florence Carala) conspire to kill her husband and make it look like suicide. Tavernier's getaway car is stolen and when the thieves commit their own murders, Tavernier is charged with them. DVD 1929, VHS 4882

The Asphalt jungle (1950) 112 min.
Considered the "star-making" vehicle for Marilyn Monroe. When criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is released from prison, he approaches crooked (and broke) lawyer Alonzo Emmerich with a plan for the biggest jewel heist in history. Against a grimy urban background, Doc carefully selects and rehearses his team of semi-professional criminals even as Emmerich is planning to double-cross the thieves and flee the country with the loot and his "niece" (Monroe). Little accidents accumulate, fatal character flaws emege, and what starts out as a clockwork operation becomes a disaster for all concerned. Directed by John Huston. VHS 4586

Atlantic City (1980) 104 min.
For Lou, 40 years a bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace, his numbers-running sideline escalates to mob involvement when gambling is legalized in Atlantic City. A drug-related slaying leaves him with a small fortune, a new care and a new girl, Sally, who is the perfect completion of his fantasy. Directed by Louis Malle. VHS 4164

The Big clock (1948) 95 min.
A hotshot crime magazine editor inadvertently becomes the subject of a murder investigation after spending an evening with his boss' mistress. VHS 4321

The Big combo (1955) 89 min.
Discouraged by his superior officers, a detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate. VHS 3593

The Big heat (1943) 89 min.
A crime melodrama about an honest police sergeant who risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration. DVD 758, VHS 3644

The Big sleep (1946) 230 min.
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect General Sternwood's wild young daughter from her own indiscretions and finds, several murders later, that he has fallen in love with her older sister. DVD 1062, VHS 2167, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 2167

Black angel (1946) 81 min.
When a beautiful blackmailer is murdered, Catherine (June Vincent), the wife of the convicted murderer, sets out to clear her husband's name. She enlists the aid of Martin Blair (Dan Duryea), the dead woman's ex-husband, an alcoholic musician who believes he might remember a stranger leaving his wife's apartment the night of the murder. Their prime suspect is Marko (Peter Lorre), a shady nightclub owner, and Catherine and Blair team up to perform in the club. VHS 5240

Blackmail (1929) 80 min.
"The girlfriend of a Scotland Yard detective kills an artist who has tried to rape her. The detective is assigned to the murder case, unaware that his girlfriend is both the killer and a victim of a blackmailer."--Container. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 336

Blade runner (1982) 122 min.
A futuristic tale set in the Los Angeles of 2020 in which a detective attempts to track down and eliminate four genetically engineered human criminals whose strength and intelligence are superhuman. Second copy is re-released edition featuring footage edited out of the original release. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 1543, VHS 1543, DVD 1064

Blood simple (1984) 96 min.
Thriller set in rural Texas combines chilling suspense with an offbeat humor to create an all-American version of the classic "film noir." A jealous husband hires a sleazy private eye to murder his adulterous wife and her lover. Written and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. VHS 2648

Blue dahlia (1946) 100 min.
Johnny (Alan Ladd), a returning Navy veteran, finds his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) cheating on him. When she is killed with his gun, he tries to find the real killer. In the meantime Johnny meets Joyce (Veronica Lake), a woman discontented with her husband but interested in Johnny. Joyce Helps Johnny look for the killer and sticks around for romance. VHS 3705

The Blue gardenia (1953) 90 min.
Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr). Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by Casey Mayo, a sensation-seeking columnist (Richard Conte), Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her into such a notorious public figure. Directed by Fritz Lang. VHS 5488

Bob le flambeur (1955) 102 min.
Bob the gambler and his friends learn that the Deauville Casino expects to pull in 800 million francs. On the night of the heist Bob plays the casino tables until the appointed time. Before the dawn breaks, some of the men and women will win, some will lose, and some will die. DVD 425, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 4880

Body heat (1981) 113 min.
A likable, unambitious lawyer and his siren-like lover plot to kill her wealthy husband. DVD 14

Branded to kill (1967) 91 min.
Director Seijun Suzuki mocks everything from censorship to gangster films. The number-three ranked killer in the Tokyo underworld carries out three impeccably imaginative hits, but bungles a fourth. Then both the women in his life try to kill him. The next thing he knows, he is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the very dangerous No. 1 killer. VHS 4837

Brute force (1947) 95 min.
Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster) of Cell R-17 in Westgate Penitentiary is planning a mass breakout. The chief guard, Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn), gets wind of this plan and seeks to further his career by crushing it. Violence erupts and Collins and Munsey come face to face with each other. Directed by Jules Dassin. VHS 5487

Call Northside 777 (1948) 111 min.
The powerful true story of a reporter who corrects a miscarriage of justice. Directed by Henry Hathaway and starring James Stewart. VHS 3492

Le Cercle rouge = Red circle (1970) 140 min.
A master thief is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime. He, a notorious escapee, and an alcoholic ex-cop plan a jewel heist, while being pursued by a police superintendent. DVD 701

Chinatown (1974) 130 min.
In the Los Angeles of the thirties, a private detective takes on a seemingly routine matrimonial inquiry. Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is hired by a beautiful socialite (Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affairs and finds himself swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one night -- in Chinatown.  DVD 54, VHS 4523, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 69

City that never sleeps (1953) 90 min.
Chicago police officer Johnny Kelly falls for a dancer, leaves  his wife, and begins a new life by making a deal with a corrupt criminal  lawyer. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6578

Conflict (1945) 86 min.
When a man murders his wife because his affections have turned to her younger sister, it appears he has executed the perfect crime until a minor slip-up arouses the suspicions of a family friend who is a psychiatrist. VHS 6582

Criss cross (1949) 88 min.
An armored car driver secretly meets his ex-wife and then tries to convince her hoodlum husband that he met her only to get her husband's help in an upcoming robbery. VHS 3879

Crossfire (1947) 85 min.
A police captain (Young) methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier (Ryan) with a rabid hatred of Jews. DVD 1369, VHS 3650

D.O.A. (1950) 85 min.
When Frank Bigelow is slipped a dose of slow-acting poison, he sets out to find his own murderer. VHS 3450

Dark city (1998) 96 min.
When John Murdoch awakens in a strange hotel room, he finds that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is he can't remember a thing. Pursued by the police and haunted by the Strangers, mysterious beings who possess the ability to stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. But in a city where reality is the ultimate illusion, discovering the truth could be fatal. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 1992

The Dark corner (1946) 99 min.
Hard-boiled detective Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens) is trying to start over in New York after having served a two year prison sentence in California for manslaughter after being framed by Jardine (Kurt Kreuger) his ex-partner, a lawyer. Kathleen (Lucille Ball), his new secretary must Help him when Jardine is killed and Galt, the prime suspect, must go on the lam from the police. Directed by Henry Hathaway. VHS 5430

The Dark mirror (1946) 85 min.
De Havilland plays twin sisters -- one good, one disturbed. The bad twin commits murder; the good twin is the chief suspect with no alibi. Ayres is a psychologist and Mitchell a police detective who must try to discover who the killer really is. VHS 4871

Dark passage (1947) 107 minutes
After successful plastic surgery on his face, a man wrongly convicted of murder hides out in an apartment in San Francisco. Tension builds in this tale of a fugitive hiding from the law as he feverishly works to prove his innocence. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. VHS 4219

Dead reckoning (1947) 100 min.
An ex-G.I. tries to find out who framed his pal for murder--and then rubbed him out!  While tracking his war buddy's shadowy past, the G.I. becomes involved with the mysterious night club singer who had once been his pal's sweetheart. VHS 6588

Detour (1945) 68 min.
"Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his fickle girlfriend, the film's 'hero' encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he 'accidentally' murders.  Full of wildly surrealistic touches, this seminal feature is one of the blackest and best of the early noirs." --from container. DVD 173, DVD 931, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 2354

Devil in a blue dress (1995) 101 min.
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows. DVD 1060

Diabolique (1955) 107 min.
The tyrannical headmaster at the DeLasalle School for boys drives his wife and mistress into a strange alliance. Fed up with his brutality, they conspire to murder him and deposit his corpse in the school swimming pool. When the pool is drained several days later, they find that the body has disappeared. Directed by H. G. Clouzot. VHS 3548

Dial M for murder (1954) 105 min.
A jealous husband plots to murder his unfaithful wife by hiring a killer to attack her, but the plan goes awry when she kills her assailant. DVD 1412, VHS 94

Dirty money (1972) 92 min.
Crime drama set in Paris, centering on a bank robbery and train heist. Simon (Richard Crenna), the leader of the gang, must deal with his friend Edouard (Alain Delon), a police commissioner. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. VHS 5775

Double indemnity (1944) 107 min.
An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death -- then push him from a train.  It's an almost perfect crime. DVD 51, VHS 1855, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 1855

A Double life (1947) 107 min.
Anthony John (Ronald Coleman) is a famed Broadway actor. When he and his ex-wife, who is also his leading lady, accept a new play "Othello" his off-stage life becomes murderously blurred with his on-stage role of Othello. As John becomes immersed in his character, he becomes caught in the grip of its powerful influence and his resulting "double life" makes him a threat to those around him. Directed by George Cukor. VHS 5723

The Falcon takes over (1942) 131 min.
" The Falcon takes over" when Moose Malloy starts asking about his lost love, and anyone with a wrong answer shuts up...permanently. A "Strange bargain" is revealed as a mild-mannered bookkeeper is caught in a web of complications when his boss stages a suicide to look like murder. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6573

Farewell, my lovely (1975) 97 min.
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by an ex-con to find the ex-con's missing sweetheart. In the course of Marlowe's search he is beaten unconscious and wakes up next to a corpse. So Marlowe's tasks are multiplying- find the girl, clear himself of the murder and discover the link between the two. Starring Robert Mitchum. VHS 4030

Film noir (1994) 60 min.
This program explores how the film noir genre, which reached its peak in the 1950s, reflected the pessimism and paranoia that were signs of the times. Explores the peculiar look of film noir - from Double Indemnity and Kiss Me Deadly to Mean Streets and Body Heat - its roots in German Expressionism, and its disturbing sense of corruption and urban decay. VHS 2907

Film Noir extra features (2004)
Extras from the "5 Film Noir Killer Classics" dvd collection.  Extras include: "What is film noir?" "Femme fatale - the noir dame" "Film Noir trailers" and "The Posters of Film Noir". DVD 935

The Film noir of Anthony Mann (1947-1948) 252 min.
Three film noir classics by director Anthony Mann. These films, like few others, define "film noir" as a style. T-men: Two treasury agents (Dennis O'Keefe and Alfred Ryder) infiltrate the ranks of a notorious counterfeiting ring known as the Vantucci Gang. Delving into a labyrinth of betrayal, sacrifice and the occasional pummeling, the agents watch as their civilian happiness ebbs away and they fall victim to the elaborate disguises they have constructed for their own protection. Raw deal: Trapped within the walls of a state penitentiary, Joe Sullivan lives for the chance to avenge himself upon the man who Helped put him there: Rick Coyle, a pyromaniac mob boss with a taste for party-girl flambé. Rick Helps spring Joe from prison in hopes that the police will gun him down during the escape, but he grossly underestimates Joe's resourcefulness. With the assistance of a world-weary moll and an innocent girl, Joe dodges roadblocks, hitmen and dragnets and carves a bloody path back to his betrayer. He walked by night: An Los Angeles Police Department sergeant (Scott Brady) follows the trail of a devious, clever and psychopathic burgler (Richard Basehart) who has killed a cop. Film is done in semi-documentary style and marks the moment in cinema history when crimefighting became more a matter of forensic science than daring gunplay. DVD 80

Force of evil (1948) 80 min.
A racketeer's lawyer finds that his boss has found a way to bankrupt New York's "numbers banks" but gets wedged between the numbers racket and a new prosecutor's anti-crime campaign. DVD 1298

The French connection (1971) 104 min.
New York police track down a consignment of drugs entering the country. Directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman. VHS 113

Gang war (1940) 65 min.
Classic battle between 2 gangs for control of the juke box machines in Harlem. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 7023

Gaslight (1944) 114 min.
Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is a rich and naive young woman who marries Gregory (Charles Boyer), a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding jewels that have been hidden in their London home which Paula inherited from a murdered aunt. She becomes his Helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity. The only clue to his evil acts is the dimming of their gaslights. She comes under the protection of a Scotland Yard detective, Brian (Joseph Cotten), who suspects Anton has already murdered once. VHS 5470

The Getaway (1972) 122 min.
"Doc" McCoy, an imprisoned master thief, is paroled with the assistance of a corrupt politician in return for masterminding a half-million-dollar bank heist. McCoy and his wife find themselves in a hornet's nest of double crosses as they try to reach the Mexican border. Directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw. VHS 3477

Gilda (1946) 110 min.
A sultry film noir set in an unnamed South American city. Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) goes to work for Ballin Mundson (George MacReady), a South American casino owner, and quickly rises to become Mundson's right-hand-man. All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride Gilda (Rita Hayworth), a woman from Farrell's past. Mundson, unaware of their previous love affair, assigns Farrell the job of keeping Gilda a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred, Gilda does her best to antagonize, intimidate, and instill jealousy in Farrell--until circumstances allow him to get even. Directed by King Vidor. VHS 1611

The Glass key (1942) 85 min.
Intricate mystery about a slightly corrupt politician (Brian Donlevy), accused of murder, who solicits his right-hand man (Alan Ladd) to hunt down the real killer. Ladd must take on a vicious gang led by Nick Varna (Joseph Calleia), the police and the beguiling advances of his boss's fiancee, socialite Janet Henry (Veronica Lake). VHS 4555

The Grifters (1990) 114 min.
Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too.  But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 207

Gun crazy (1949) 87 min.
Although Bart is not a violent man at heart, he allows the no-good Laurie to lure him into a life of crime. They become the most wanted criminals in America as they blast their way through a series of deadly bank jobs. Eventually the police catch up with them for a final bloody showdown in the wilderness of Madera National Park. VHS 3600

Hangmen also die (1943) 134 min.
Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svoboda enlists the aid of a young woman who is oblivious to the lethal crosscurrents that surround her in Czechoslovakia. As she learns more about the mysterious doctor, she grows aware of the involvement of her father and fiance in the resistance, and soon finds herself entangled in the revolution's secret operations. DVD 106, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5022

He walked by night (1948) 79 min.
An Los Angeles Police Department sergeant (Scott Brady) follows the trail of a devious, clever and psychopathic burgler (Richard Basehart) who has killed a cop. Film is done in semi-documentary style and marks the moment in cinema history when crimefighting became more a matter of forensic science than daring gunplay. Directed by Anthony Mann. VHS 5020

High Sierra (1941) 101 min.
Set against the captivating background of California's High Sierra Montains, the story begins when convicted killer Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart in a performance that made him a a star) is sprung from jail by mobster "Big Mac", who wants Earle to assist in a California hotel hold-up. As a favor to his old friend, he agrees to pull one more job and then settle down to a normal life. When things go wrong Earle finds himself trapped 11,000 feet up in the High Sierras shouting defiance at an army of coppers below. Directed by Raoul Walsh. VHS 4556

The Hitch-hiker (1953) 72 min.
Classic film noir that concerns two middle-class American family men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by a psychopathic serial killer who would not hesitate to shoot them down in cold blood. Directed by Ida Lupino. VHS 4879

Homicide (1992) 100 min.
A tough cop in assigned to what appears to be a routine homicide case, only to be drawn into the center of a deadly conspiracy which causes him to question his personal beliefs and his loyalty to the force. VHS 5092

House by the river (1950) 88 min
A second-rate writer strangles his maid when she rejects him and frames his brother for the crime, after they dispose of the body. Directed by Fritz Lang. VHS 3658

House of games (1987) 101 min.
A woman psychiatrist, trying to help a patient whose life has been threatened, is drawn into the dangerous but provocative underworld of a smooth-talking con man. DVD 1575

Hustle (1975) 120 min.
The underbelly of modern Los Angeles serves as a background for the story of an old-fashioned detective, a moralist who still sees the difference between right and wrong and finds it difficult to reconcile himself to the ugliness of his job. By day he investigates a young girl's suicide; at night he relaxes with a high-priced Paris call girl. Neither are ever quite able to escape the hustle they're so uncomfortable with. VHS 4870

I wake up screaming (1941) 82 min.
Crime thriller of a cafe society celebrity who is murdered.  Sports promoter Frankie Christopher is accused, while the dead woman's  sister falls in love with him. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6580

In a lonely place (1950) 94 min.
A hotheaded, hard-drinking Hollywood screenwriter with a macabre sense of humor is questioned for the murder of a hat-check girl. He is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi but his volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love. Directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart. VHS 4587

Juno and the paycock (1930) 85 min.
"Set in Dublin during the Irish revolution. The story follows the troubles of a poor family, a lost inheritance, a betrayal that leads to murder, and an out-of-wedlock pregnancy."--Container. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 336

Kansas City confidential (1952) 98 min.
John Payne gives a hard hitting performance as a man bent on finding the gang that unwittingly framed him for a robbery. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6783

Key Largo (1948) 101 min.
Frank, a disillusioned returning World War II veteran (Humphrey Bogart), has lost the will to fight until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo to visit the widow of his deceased army buddy. When Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), a mobster and his gang (including his alcoholic mistress (Claire Trevor)) are forced by a raging storm to hold up in the hotel, they take Frank, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law (Lauren Bacall) hostage at gunpoint. Directed by John Huston. VHS 4866

Killer bait (1949) 100 min.
"A couple interrupts their bickering to find a bag of money in the back seat of their car.  The husband wants to turn the apparently illicit cash into the authorities, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea-- and she'll do anything to realize it." --from container. DVD 934

Killer's kiss (1955) 67 min.
Film noir about a boxer in New York who protects a nightclub dancer, not knowing that her boss is a gangster. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. VHS 4005

The Killers (1946) 103 min.
Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, who was expecting them. An insurance investigator pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the slain gas station attendant's life, the investigator uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime, all linked with a gorgeous and mysterious woman. VHS ; Directed by Robert Siodmak. VHS 5241

The Killers (1964) 95 min.
Two hit men are hired to kill a teacher at a school for the blind. During the murder they recognize their victim as having been involved in a million-dollar robbery and decide to try to discover who hired them to kill him in the hopes that it will lead them to the money. Inferior remake of earlier classic. VHS 4588

The Killing of a Chinese bookie (1978) 109 min.
When the gambling losses of nightclub owner Cosmo Vitelli mount, he is pressured by a gangster to commit a murder to free himself of the debt. Now he is caught in a dangerous game, where every move is a deadly risk, and the only goal is to survive. Directed by John Cassavetes VHS 3536

The Killing (1956) 85 min.
Using a darting camera style that creates the feeling that he is stalking his cast, Stanley Kubrick lays bare the inner workings of a bold racetrack robbery engineered by a group of small-time crooks. It's the almost perfect crime. VHS 4585

Kiss me deadly (1955) 106 min.
A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder. Along the way, he is told to back off by the Feds, a bomb is placed in his car, a friend is killed, and he himself is beaten, drugged, and held hostage. DVD 1058, VHS 3815

Kiss of death (1947) 99 min.
A crime melodrama that set a new standard for realism in Hollywood. Nick Bianco (Victor Mature), is a two-bit crook who is trying to go straight. He has a wife and two daughters but nobody hires ex-cons. Nick cooperates with the assistant D.A. Louie DeAngelo (Brian Donlevy) to save his family. DeAngelo wants Nick to squeal on up-and-coming hood Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), but that could be very unhealthy -- for Nick and his two young daughters. Directed by Henry Hathaway. VHS 3814

Klute (1971) 125 min.
Small-town detective John Klute (Sutherland) comes to New York to investigate the disappearance of a friend. The trail leads to Bree Daniels (Fonda), a call girl, with whom Klute falls in love. She is being stalked by a psychotic murderer.

Knock on any door (1949) 100 min.
A young hoodlum from the slums is tried for murdering a cop. He is defended by a prominent attorney who has known him from childhood. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6579

L.A. confidential (1997) 138 min.
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films. Directed by Curtis Hanson. DVD 3

Lady in the lake (1947) 104 min.
Experiment by director/actor Robert Montgomery who uses a "subjective camera" in which the eye of the camera substitutes for detective Philip Marlowe's first person narrative - thereby allowing the viewer to experience the action directly. Philip Marlowe is hired to search for a publisher's missing wife. When a different woman's corpse turns up in a mountain lake, the waters get deeper with plots and cross plots, troublesome cops and L.A. lowlifes. VHS 4428

The Lady vanishes (1938) 97 min.
A young woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 426, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 320

Laura (1944) 88 min.
A cynical detective investigates the murder of a beautiful girl, but finds himself falling in love with the dead woman through her striking portrait. DVD 1239

The Letter (1940) 95 min.
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend. DVD 1820, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 4147

Little Caesar (1931) 81 min.
Movie that made Edward G. Robinson a star. Rico Bandello (Robinson) and his cohort Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks) head for the big city looking for power and quick riches. A determined man, he ruthlessly pushes his way to the top of the mob only to be taken down as quickly and violently as he had ascended to power. VHS 1636

The Long Good Friday (1980) 110 min.
Crime drama that made Bob Hoskins a star. London underworld boss Harold Shand (Hoskins) is beginning negotiations for a megabucks deal that he hopes will make him respectable as well as wealthy. However, just as he is about to go legit, a mysterious threat to his underworld kingdom appears and he must find out who is behind it. VHS 5075

The Long goodbye (1973) 112 min.
Irreverent characterization of detective Philip Marlowe in a sophisticated murder mystery. DVD 1057, VHS 3813

The Long night (1947) 97 min.
Joe Adams, a factory worker pinned inside his third-floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious gentleman, reconstructs the events leading up to the shooting through an intricate series of flashbacks. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 108, VHS 6468

M (1931) 111 min.
Classic early crime melodrama set in 1930s Berlin. Han Beckert (Peter Lorre) is a serial killer who preys on children. The number of these unsolved murders so disrupts the city that organized crime joins the police in a search for the killer. Film examines police methods also the character of the murderer as well. Directed By Fritz Lang. VHS 3, VHS 5016, DVD 56

The Maltese falcon (1941) 100 min.
After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. DVD 130, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 103

La Mariée était en noir = The bride wore black (1968) 108 min.
Truffaut pays homage to Hitchcock. After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one. VHS 4376

Marked woman (1937) 97 min.
When a hostess's innocent sister vanishes from a party given by a racketeering boss, she threatens the boss, and is then herself in danger. VHS 4226

Marlowe (1969) 96 min.
Bruce Lee is Winslow Wong and James Gardner is Philip Marlowe in this entertaining baffler of missing persons, blackmail and ice-pick murders set in the 1960s. VHS 4877

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) 96 min.
When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos washes up ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. On vacation in Istanbul, a Dutch mystery writer (Peter Lorre) becomes interested in chronicling Dimitrios' unscrupulous exploits and, aided by a mysterious man named Peters (Sidney Greenstreet), takes up a trail that leads them across Europe. Things perhaps are not what they seem. VHS 4770

Mildred Pierce (1945) 110 min.
The story of a self-made woman's attempt to provide her daughter with luxuries and social status only to see the daughter become spoiled and unscrupulous. VHS; Directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford. VHS 276

Miller's crossing (1990) 115 min.
Gangland epic with a convoluted plot. During Prohibition an eastern city's corrupt political boss (Albert Finney) finds his control slipping as he is challenged by an upstart Italian underboss and his ruthless henchman. The situation is complicated by a woman - both the boss and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Bryne) are in love with her - and they end up on the opposite sides of a gang war. Written and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. VHS 4622

Ministry of fear (1944) 87 min.
A man is released into World War II England after 2 years in an asylum where he was confined after the mercy killing of his wife, but the outside world does not seem so sane either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he buys a cake at a charity bazaar and stumbles across a murderous Nazi spy ring who want the cake - and the British invasion plans in it. His life is threatened and so is his sanity, as a bizarre psychological chase follows. Directed by Fritz Lang . VHS 5226

Monsieur Hire (1989) 88 min.
When a beautiful woman discovers she's being spied on by a cold, repressed neighbor (who is suspected in the murder of a teenage girl), she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. VHS 1880

Mulholland Dr. (2001) 147 min.
A beautiful woman riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem? DVD 382

Murder, my sweet (1944) 95 min.
The story of a private detective who gets drawn into a complex web of murder, blackmail, and double-dealing while searching for a missing jade necklace. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. VHS 4031

The Naked city (1948) 96 min.
A squad of homicide detectives roam through the seamier parts of New York City as they solve a murder case. The movie gives viewers an unvarnished look at life in the city using the technique neorealism. Directed by Jules Dassin. VHS 3803

The Naked kiss (1964) 90 min.
Set in a time when grabbing a snort meant having a drink, when all women were dames and all men were heels. A prostitute moves to a conservative town to start a new life working as a nurse's aide but the town's upstanding citizens aren't always as moral as they pretend to be. When the newcomer gets unjustly charged with the murder of her fiance, her past comes back to further entangle her. Directed by Samuel Fuller. VHS 3168

Night moves (1975) 100 min.
Gene Hackman is Harry Moseby, a former football player and now a self-styled detective scrounging a living out of divorce actions, missing persons, and runaway kids. He finally gets his first big case when he is hired to track down a wayward daughter (Griffith). Unraveling his mystery, he's always one step behind as he is plunged into a world of intrigue, smuggling and murder. Directed by Arthur Penn. VHS 4873

Odds against tomorrow (1959) 96 min.
Tale of robbery gone awry. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater (Robert Ryan), a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke (Ed Begley). Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte), a black gambler. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads him to reconsider. For the job only, he'll put his racism aside - until moments away from the score, hatred erupts. Directed by Robert Wise. VHS 4862

One false move (1992) 106 min.
After two ruthless drug dealers commit a brutal mass murder in Los Angeles and are forced to flee the state, their beautiful accomplice unwittingly leads them into a trap. Directed by Carl Franklin. VHS 3129

Out of the past (1947) 97 min.
Suspenseful tale of double-crosses, deceit and murder. Jeff (Robert Mitchum), a former private detective, is hired by a gangster (Kirk Douglas) to find his former girlfriend (Jane Greer), whom he still loves despite the fact that she took $40,000.00 from him and disappeared. Jeff not only finds the girl but falls in love with her as well. This makes the gangster very jealous and annoyed. During the investigation and the unexpected love affair, several murders occur that ultimately lead to the death of Jeff and the girl. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. VHS 3088

Panique = Panic (1947) 96 min.
A murder in a small French town sets the stage for this story of intrigue and treachery. VHS 3874

The Petrified forest (1936) 83 min.
Travelers at a remote gas-station cafe in the Arizona desert are held hostage at gunpoint by ruthless gangster Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart) - changing their lives irrevocably. VHS 4872

Phantom lady (1944) 87 min.
An unhappily married man (Curtis) spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home to find his wife strangled and the police waiting. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (Raines) who is secretly in love with him doggedly follows clues. Will she be able to clear her employer in time as she deals with a bartender killed in a street fight, a jazz drummer strangled as he's revealing information, an insane woman and the psychopathic friend of her boss. Directed by Robert Siodmak. VHS 5242

Pickup on South Street (1953) 87 min.
Espionage thriller that captures the reality of life on Skid Row and combines suspense with a story of love and loyalty. A pickpocket steals the wallet of a street-smart woman who is carrying secret microfilm for a group of Communist spies. When he is identified by a police informer as the thief, he becomes the target of the Communists and the girl as well as the police. Directed by Samuel Fuller. VHS 3083

Point blank (1967) 89 min.
Walker (Lee Marvin) is a professional criminal who Helps pull off an underworld heist, then is double-crossed, gunned down and left for dead on deserted Alcatraz Island. He resurfaces in Los Angeles to track down his share of the loot. Aided by his accomplice Chris (Dickinson), he takes on the syndicate at its own deadly game, doggedly stalking his prey across the 1960s LA. Directed by John Boorman. VHS 6023

Possessed (1947) 108 min.
A solitary, emotionally unstable private nurse obsessively attempts to regain the love of a callous bachelor, which ultimately drives her into madness--and murder. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6785

Postmark for danger (1955) 77 min.
When a journalist and his girlfriend get into a suspicious car accident, he is killed, but she returns to get the killers. VHS 6583

The Public eye (1992) 99 min.
Set in New York City in 1942 where a brash tabloid photographer is led into a shadowy underworld of mob violence, unlikely romance, and dangerous corruption. Shutterbug Leon "Bernzy" Berstein (Pesci) roams the crime-ridden streets of the city capturing life's seamy side in his lens as he dreams of the day his pictures will be recognized as works of art. Then nightclub owner Kay Levitz (Hershey) lures Bernzy into investigating the thugs trying to muscle in on her business. Before he knows it, he falls for the unattainable Kay - and is plunged into a treacherous realm of black market scams and mafia gang war. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5721

Pulp fiction (1994) 154 min.
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers. DVD 1244

Quai des orfèvres = Quay of the Goldsmiths (1947) 106 min.
Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis. DVD 598

A Rage in Harlem (1991) 108 min.
A beautiful young woman from Mississippi arrives in Harlem with a chest full of stolen gold. Everybody wants a piece of the action, including a mobster, a con man, and a collection of crooks. But all a virginal accountant wants is the love of the beautiful young woman! VHS 3130

Railroaded (1947) 74 min.
Mickey Ferguson (Beaumont), a detective, attempts to clear his girlfriend's brother of a murder rap and find the real killer Duke Martin (Ireland) who dips his bullets in perfume before using them. In the process Ferguson uncovers the hidden workings of the city's seedy underworld. Directed by Anthony Mann. VHS 5243

The Rainmaker (1997) 135 min.
A rookie lawyer in over his head on a high-profile case hires a feisty paralawyer who specializes in flunking the bar. Their chances of winning are slim to none, until they uncover a trail of corruption. DVD 1246

Raw deal (1948) 79 min.
Trapped within the walls of a state penitentiary, Joe Sullivan lives for the chance to avenge himself upon the man who Helped put him there: Rick Coyle, a pyromaniac mob boss with a taste for party-girl flambé. Rick Helps spring Joe from prison in hopes that the police will gun him down during the escape, but he grossly underestimates Joe's resourcefulness. With the assistance of a world-weary moll and an innocent girl, Joe dodges roadblocks, hitmen and dragnets and carves a bloody path back to his betrayer. Directed by Anthony Mann. VHS 4358

Road house (1948) 95 min.
Ida Lupino plays a sexy singer trying to make a quick buck as the star "attraction" at a roadside cocktail lounge and bowling alley.  Richard Widmark plays a psychotic rich kid who wants to marry her. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6581

Le Samourai (1967) 95 min.
A steely-eyed and enigmatic hitman carries out a murder contract on a Parisian nightclub boss after prearranging an intricate alibi with a devoted girlfriend. The police arrest him on suspicion but cannot break his alibi. Meanwhile it seems his employers are double-crossing him and he is unsure of his girlfriend's motives. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. VHS 4659

Scarface (1932) 93 min.
Drama of the life and death of a Chicago gangster during the prohibition in the 1920's. Directed by Howard Hawkes and starring Paul Muni. VHS 1899

Scarlet Street (1945) 103 min.
"Homely, henpecked Chris Cross leads an honorable, if tedious, middle-class life until he falls madly in love with beautiful Kitty.  Blind to the woman's selfishness and deceit, he steals money to finance her lazy lifestyle-- and soon begins plotting his hateful wife's demise." --from container. DVD 933, VHS 3627

Secret beyond the door (1948) 99 min.
Celia, a wealthy heiress married to a man she met on vacation, travels to his New England mansion where she meets his domineering older sister and his son from a previous marriage. Celia learns that Mark collects rooms where murders have been committed and adds them to his mansion. As more bizarre facts are revealed, Celia is determined to stay and find the cause of her husband's strange fascination with murder, even though she must risk her own life to do so. Directed by Fritz Lang. VHS 3895

Shock corridor (1963) 101 min.
Director Samuel Fuller depicts schizophrenics and nymphomaniacs, stripteases and shock treatments with an eye for harsh realism and bizarre surrealism in this story of Johnny Barratt, a reporter obsessed with winning the Pulitzer Prize, who goes undercover in an insane asylum to solve a grisly murder mystery. He may lose his stripper girlfriend - not to mention his sanity - but Barratt is determined to get the story. VHS 5484

Spies (1943) 88 min.
First true spy film. A power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty. DVD 1284, VHS 4009

The Strange affair of Uncle Harry (1945) 80 min.
Suspense film about Harry Quincey, a young man who lives with his two sisters, Lettie and Hester. When Lettie interferes with his romance with a co-worker, he tries to poison Lettie but kills Hester by mistake. Lettie is blamed for Hester's death and Harry decides he has committed the perfect crime. Directed by Robert Siodmak. VHS 4878

Strange illusion (1945) 80 min.
B-movie update of Hamlet. A son is haunted by dreams of the mysterious death of his father and his widowed mother being wooed by a fast-talking schemer - dreams which he fears foreshadow future events. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. VHS 4899

Strange impersonation (1946) 68 min.
Nora Goodrich is a scientist working on an anesthesiology project. Her lab partner sabotages an experiment leaving Nora's face badly scarred. After her face is surgically altered, she plots revenge on her enemies. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 107

The Strange love of Martha Ivers (1946) 116 min.
Streetwise gambler Sam Materson (Van Heflin) returns to his hometown. His old girlfriend Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) believes he is planning to blackmail her over the suspicious death of her aunt, which he witnessed years earlier. Martha is now married to the local district attorney (Douglas) and tries to threaten, connive and seduce Sam in an effort to discover just what he does know. Meanwhile Sam tries to intervene to Help Toni Marachek (Lisbeth Scott), a young woman who was unjustly imprisoned and is now on parole. VHS 5244

The Stranger (1946) 94 min.
"Directing his first noir, the brilliant Orson Welles creates a tense, highly atmospheric thriller about a monstrous Nazi official hiding out as an American professor at a New England college.  A mysterious war crimes detective comes to town determined to expose him-- even if it means sacrificing the life of the Nazi's innocent wife." --from container. DVD 932, VHS 5006

Strangers on a train (1951) 104 min.
A tennis star, Guy, is harassed on a train by a psychotic, Bruno, who wants to swap murders and who proceeds to carry out his part of the unconfirmed bargain. The British version amplifies Bruno's flamboyance, his homoerotic attraction to Guy, and his psychotic personality. DVD 339, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 317

Suspicion (1941) 99 min.
Terrifying web of suspicion is woven around a fragile young English bride in a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine, in her Academy Award-winning performance, is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant, in the first of his enormously successful collaborations with Hitchcock, is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life-and a bank account that's strictly low-life. VHS 4480

T-Men (1947) 92 min.
Two treasury agents infiltrate the ranks of a notorious counterfeiting ring known as the Vantucci Gang. Delving into a labyrinth of betrayal, sacrifice and the occasional pummeling, the agents watch as their civilian happiness ebbs away and they fall victim to the elaborate disguises they have constructed for their own protection. VHS 5021

They drive by night (1940) 94 min.
Paul Fabrini and his brother Joe are wildcat drivers--men who buy their trucks on installment plans and then worry that loan sharks will repossess their trucks. As they drive their truck over rough California roads, night after night, their rough life gets even tougher when they get involved with murder and the mob. Directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Humphrey Bogart. VHS 3837

The Third man (1949) 104 min.
Murder thriller set in post-World War II Vienna during the four-power occupation of the city. An American writer Holley Martins (Cotton) arrives in Vienna to visit his college friend Harry Lime (Welles). He discovers that Lime is dead - hit and killed by a car a fortnight ago. Was it an accident or murder? DVD 48, VHS 100, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 100

This Gun for hire (1942) 80 min.
The hard-edged story of love, power, and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's. Alan Ladd portrays a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client. VHS 3788

Tight spot (1955) 97 min.
Wise-cracking Sherry Conley (Ginger Rogers) is moved by U.S. Attorney Hallet (Edward G. Robinson) and Detective Lieutenant Striker (Brian Keith) from prison to a swanky hotel suite. They try to persuade her to testify against mobster Benny Costain (Lorne Greene). Sherry first refuses to testify but changes her mind when a bullet intended for her kills a prison matron. Striker is shot when the mobster makes his last desperate effort to silence the girl. VHS 5407

Tokyo drifter (1966) 80 min.
Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to Help his old employers (the Kurata gang) battle the rival (Otsuka) gang. Then he is on the run in a mad chase across Japan pursued by "Viper" Tatsu to a final showdown. VHS; Directed by Seijun Suzuki. VHS 4838

Touch of evil (1958) 111 min.
An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife. DVD 163

Trouble is my business (1994)
Experience the world of Chandler's most famous detective, Philip Marlowe, through illustrated text, voice-over narrations, video clips from classic Hollywood movies, and an interactive map of Marlowe's Los Angeles. CDROM 26

Try and get me! (1950) 91 min.
Based on a true event, the 1933 lynching of two accused kidnappers in San Diego, California. Two men (Bridges and Lovejoy) kidnap the son of wealthy parents in hopes of a huge ransom but are arrested after they kill him. A local journalist (Carlson) stirs up the town with his stories - and then watches in horror as the citizens take the law into their own hands. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 5063

Underworld, U.S.A. (1961) 99 min.
A youngster, already going into crime as a teenager, witnesses a gang murdering his father and plans to take revenge on those responsible. He plunges devotedly into his revenge, in and out of prisons. Then he is offered a chance to Help the authorities convict the men he wants revenge on. He tries to settle down and give up crime but his life of violence prevents this. Directed by Samuel Fuller. VHS 4589

The Usual suspects (1995) 106 min.
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification of a criminal mastermind. DVD 1671, HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 4698

Who framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) 104 min.
Tale of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble in a world where cartoons and people live side by side. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Bob Hoskins. VDD 112

The Window (1949) 64 min.
If you are ten-years-old and noted for your vivid imagination, you might not be able to convince your parents that you actually witnessed a murder. VHS 3778

The Woman in the window (1945) 99 min.
Edward G. Robinson is the pawn in a shocking crime thriller with a surprising twist in the tale. Directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson. VHS 3877

The Wrong man (1956) 105 min.
An innocent man is arrested, jailed, and brought to trial for serious crimes committed by someone else who looks very much like him. As he struggles to prove his innocence, his life collapses around him. VHS 3170

Yoidore Tenshi = Drunken angel (1948) 98 min.
The story of a physician who tries to be a healer in a world of hoodlums. VHS 6536

You and me (1938) 94 min.
A romantic crime story, laced with comedy and social commentary, that projects the message that "crime doesn't pay." A group of ex-cons are working in a department store whose owner (Harry Carey) believes in rehabilitation. Two of them, Helen and Joe (Sylvia Sidney and George Raft) fall in love and marry. However, Helen's failure to tell Joe she too has served time causes him to leave her when he finds out. He rejoins the mob and pressures a group of the store's parolees to rob it. Helen must set him straight. Directed by Fritz Lang. VHS 5494

You only live once (1937) 86 min.
An ill-fated young couple are separated when he is put in prison for a crime he didn't commit. DVD 746

Young and innocent (1937) 80 min.
A woman's body is washed ashore with the belt of a man's raincoat, obviously the murder weapon. Robert Tisdale, owner of the raincoat, is being chased by the police. Tisdale is on a manhunt of his own, after the real killer, the man who stole his raincoat and he enlists the aid of the daughter of the chief constable. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 6769

Zatykac na královnu = Summons for the queen (1973) 110 min.
A mystery about murder and a black-market network begins with an anonymous tip to the police about a woman living far beyond her apparent means. Before she can be questioned, she is raped and murdered. HOME USE COLLECTION VHS 4841

Zentropa (1991) 112 min.
In this Hitchcock-like thriller, Leo Kessler, an American visiting devastated postwar Germany, is seduced by a beautiful woman and suddenly finds himself caught in a never-ending web of mystery and intrigue. VHS 5762

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