The Shanghai Gesture
United Artists 1941
Gene Tierney
This Gun For Hire
Paramount 1942
Alan Ladd
Laura
Twentieth Century-Fox 1944
Clifton Webb, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price,
Judith Anderson
Double Indemnity
Paramount 1944
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck
Fallen Angel
Twentieth Century-Fox 1945
Linda Darnell, Percy Kilbride, Dana Andrews
Mildred Pierce
Warner Brothers 1945
Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth
Scarlet Street
Diana Productions 1945
Joan Bennett
The Big Sleep
Warner Brothers 1946
Lauren Becall, Humphrey Bogart
The Dark Corner
Twentieth Century-Fox 1946
Mark Stevens, Clifton Webb
Notorious
RKO 1946
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
The Killers
Mark Hellinger Productions 1946
Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
The Postman Always Rings Twice
MGM 1946
John Garfield, Lana Turner
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Paramount 1946
Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
Undercurrent
MGM 1946
Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor
Born To Kill (aka: Deadlier Than the Male)
RKO 1947
Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney
Brute Force
Mark Hellinger Productions 1947
Howard Duff, Jeff Cory, Jack Overman
Burt Lancaster, John Hoyt
Crossfire
RKO 1947
Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Robert Young
The Locket
RKO 1947
Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum
Kiss of Death
Twentieth Century-Fox 1947
Victor Mature, Richard Widmark
Out of the Past
RKO 1947
Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum
The Big Clock
Paramount 1948
Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
Criss Cross
Universal 1948
Yvonne DeCarlo, Burt Lancaster
Hollow Triumph
Eagle Lion 1948
Paul Henried
The Lady From Shanghai
Columbia 1948
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth
Raw Deal
Reliance Pictures 1948
Dennis O'Keefe, Marsha Hunt
Sleep, My Love
Triangle Productions 1948
Robert Cummings, Claudette Colbert
The Big Steal
RKO 1949
Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum
The Set-Up
RKO 1949
Robert Ryan
The Asphalt Jungle
MGM 1950
Jean Hagen, Sterling Hayden
Dark City
Hal Wallis Productions 1950
Lizabeth Scott, Charlton Heston
Edge of Doom
Samuel Goldwyn 1950
Robert Keith, Farley Granger, Dana Andrews
Where Danger Lives
RKO 1950
Faith Domergue, Robert Mitchum, Claude Rains
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Twentieth Century-Fox 1950
Dana Andrews, Gary Merril
Detective Story
Paramount 1951
Luis Van Rooten, Kirk Douglas, William Bendix
His Kind of Woman
RKO 1951
Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Philip Van Zandt
My Forbidden Past
RKO 1951
Ava Gardner, Robert Mitchum,
Angel Face
Howard Hughes Productions 1952
unidentified, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum
Beware, My Lovely
RKO 1952
Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan
Sudden Fear
RKO 1952
Joan Crawford
Macao
RKO 1952
Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell
The Big Heat
Columbia 1953
Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford
Second Chance
RKO 1953
Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell
Suddenly
United Artists 1954
James Gleason, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Gates
Kim Charney, Frank Sinatra
The Big Combo
United Artists 1955
Cornel Wilde, Earl Holliman
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Commentary
Original articles on Hollywood, and the great Classic films
Bibliography
Sources for Moderntimes Classic Film Pages, and further reading
Selected Film Images…
Nineteen Twenties
Images from the Great Silent era
Nineteen Thirties
The Great Depression and, Hollywood's peak years
Nineteen Forties
World War II, and the extraordinary Post-War period
Nineteen Fifties
The decline and fall of the crumbling studio system
Additional Pages…
Moderntimes
Classic Film
Pages
Screwball Comedy
A definition of the Classic genre
Rico's End
A Ttribute to
Edward G. Robinson
Ball of Fire
For the great Barbara
Stanwyck
Midnight
Ramble
The American Negro in early Hollywood
Charles Chaplin
Images and commentary on some key Chaplin films
The Bees
The magic of the second feature
Recommended Links…
A Tribute to Humphrey
Bogart
The Best Bogart page on the Web
Carol Lombard
Another beautiful Mary Murphy site
A Pretty Grim Life,
Actually
Cool article on Frank Capra
Viv and Larry Dot
Com
Kendra's beautiful site, celebrating Vivien Leigh, and Laurence
Olivier
Preston Sturges
The
Official Site, extremely cool
Alec Guinness
Mary Murphy's tribute
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