Lux Film released Bitter Rice on September 7, 1949. Giuseppe De Santis directed the film starring Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, and Silvana Mangano.

‘Bitter Rice’ Plot Summary

At the start of the rice-planting season in northern Italy, two small-time thieves, Francesca and Walter, evade the police looking for them after they stole a valuable necklace. They make it to the train station where the crowds of female workers head to the rice fields in the Po Valley. Walter runs off when the police spot him, and Francesca boards one of the trains. There she meets another worker named Silvana who is on to the two, and their lifestyle excites her. However, when Walter later shows up in the rice fields with a plan for a new robbery, it leads to death and murder.

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20th Century Fox released Leave Her to Heaven on December 20 1945. John M. Stahl directed the film starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Jeanne Crain.

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Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he can think twice. Yet the glassy surface of Ellen’s devotion soon reveals monstrous depths, as Richard comes to realize that his wife is shockingly possessive and may be capable of destroying anyone who comes between them. A singular Hollywood masterpiece that draws freely from the women’s picture and film noir alike, Leave Her to Heaven boasts elegant direction by melodrama specialist John M. Stahl, blazing Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy, and a chilling performance by Tierney, whose Ellen is a femme fatale unlike any other—a woman whose love is as pure as it is poisonous.

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20th Century Fox released Fallen Angel on March 20, 1946. Otto Preminger directed the film starring Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, and Linda Darnell.

‘Fallen Angel’ Plot Summary

Eric Stanton is a penniless drifter who finds himself stuck halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco in the small town of Walton. There he falls for a waitress named Stella. However, she won’t marry any man who can’t buy her a house, and she knows Stanton’s dead broke. Needing to make a lot of money quick, Stanton puts the con on a wealthy local girl named June, whom he plans to rob and then divorce. His plans go awry when Stella turns up dead, and he’s the cop’s prime suspect.

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Universal Pictures released Blast of Silence on June 5, 1961. Allen Baron directed the film which starred Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, and Larry Tucker.

‘Blast of Silence’ Movie Summary

Swift, brutal, and black-hearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball idiosyncrasies of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration performed by Lionel Stander, Blast of Silence is a stylish triumph.

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Toho Company released Drunken Angel to theaters on April 27, 1948. Akira Kurosawa directed the film starring Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, and Reizaburô Yamamoto.

‘Drunken Angel’ Movie Summary

In post WWII Tokyo, a yakuza Matsunaga stumbles into Doctor Sanada’s office to have him remove a bullet from his hand. As the Doctor removes it, he tells Matsunaga that he has tuberculosis, and needs treatment before he dies from it. Matsunaga calls him a quack, and leaves to remain as the Yakuza’s leader. Eventually, he does his best to follow the doctor’s orders, and tries to quit drinking and smoking. It’s only when Matsunaga’s former boss, Okada, is released from prison that he starts drinking and smoking again, and his illness intensifies. Doctor Sanada goes to report Okada to the police after he threatens him and his nurse (Okada’s forced bride before prison), but Matsunaga believes their code of honor will get Okada to back off from his threats against the doctor. Matsunaga soon finds out that he’s just as helpless and expendable as everyone else in town.

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Paramount Pictures released The Blue Dahlia on April 19, 1946. George Marshall directed the Raymond Chandler film which starred Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, and William Bendix.

‘The Blue Dahlia’ Movie Summary

A WWII veteran is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger.

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Columbia Pictures released In a Lonely Place on May 17, 1950. Nicholas Ray directed the film starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, and Frank Lovejoy.

‘In a Lonely Place’ Movie Summary

In a Lonely Place begins with Hollywood screenwriter, Dixon Steele, who hasn’t written a hit movie since before the war. His agent gets him a job turning a potboiler into a screenplay, but Dix thinks the story is crap. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself as a person of interest in the murder of restaurant hat check girl, Mildred Atkinson, who was last seen leaving his apartment late at night. Dix had invited her over so she could tell him about the book, which she just finished reading. While Dix is known for his anger management issues, his neighbor, Laurel Gray, gives him a reliable alibi. Soon the two fall in love, and he hires Laurel as his muse since she’s inspired him to write again. However, Dix’s frequent bursts of rage along with the police’s incessant investigation on him causes Laurel to have her doubts over Dix’s innocence.

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Allied Artists Pictures released The Big Combo on February 13, 1955. Joseph Lewis directed the film starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, and Jean Wallace.

‘The Big Combo’ Movie Summary

When the 93 Precinct finds Police Lieutenant Leonard Diamond’s surveillance of a suspected mob boss named Mr. Brown is costing them too much money with no results, they order him to shut it down. Diamond then makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against the man by visiting Brown’s mistress, Susan Lowell.

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Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) released Detour on November 30, 1945. Edgar G. Ulmer directed the film starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage, and Claudia Drake.

‘Detour’ Movie Summary

A down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles. After one man picks him up in Arizona, the pianist finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run. His nightmare goes from bad to worse when he meets a snarling and monstrously conniving drifter named Vera. She knows the recently deceased.

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United Artists released The Chase on November 25, 1947. Arthur Ripley directed the film starring Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, and Steve Cochran.

‘The Chase’ Movie Summary

Chuck Scott is a down-on-his-luck veteran who lands a job as a chauffeur to a sadistic millionaire and his loyal bodyguard. Scott does anything he can for his boss’s lonely, but seductive wife. Eventually, she gets him to take her to Havana. However, when someone fatally stabs her in a crowded nightclub there, authorities accuse Scott of murder. Now, he must flee through the streets of Cuba as he attempts to prove his innocence.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released The Postman Always Rings Twice on October 14, 1946. Tay Garnett directed the film starring Lana Turner, John Garfield, and Cecil Kellaway.

‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ Movie Summary

A drifter named Frank wanders into a roadhouse named the Twin Oaks. The a grumpy old man named Nick and his smoking-hot wife, Cora, own the place. Nick gives Frank a job, but because it’s lust at first site for Cora and Frank, he’d like nothing more than to work on her first. Soon a romance develops, and the two plot to get rid of Nick so they may live happily ever after.

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