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Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 37) 11/23/2022 Thunderbolt (1929) Jim "Thunderbolt" Lang (George Bancroft) is the authorities' most wanted gangster. The police think they finally have a way of getting him when they discover his girlfriend, Ritzie (Fay Wray)...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 36) 11/23/2022 The Turning Point (1952) Edmond O'Brien returns to his home city as a special prosecutor charged with bringing down vicious crime boss Ed Begley. O'Brien's childhood pal William Holden is a reporter willing to...

Rating out of 4 35) 11/22/2022 Touch of Evil (1958) A car explodes on the US side of the Mexican border, killing two people. The dynamite, however, was planted on the Mexican side. This brings together Mexican narcotics officer Charlton Heston and respected US police captain Orson Welles...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 34) 11/21/2022 Baby Face Nelson (1957) 1/2 Shortly after being released from prison, Lester Gillis (Mickey Rooney) is framed for the murder of a union boss by his old gangster pal and is re-arrested. With the help of his wife Sue...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 31) 11/18/2022 The Scoundrel (1935) Noël Coward plays a rotten publisher who treats everyone badly. His latest "victim" is a young female poet with whom the married Coward starts an affair. Then the film takes a bizarre twist in...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 29) 11/16/2022 Kiss the Blood off My Hands (1948) 1/2 Terrific title for a not-so-terrific film. Burt Lancaster, having physically survived a Nazi prison camp, has serious anger issues. He accidentally kills a London pub owner...

There's an Italian DVD available. But Robert Crawford posted it was a bootleg.

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 26) 11/15/2022 The Glass Key (1942) Brian Donlevy is a powerful but corrupt political figure who, in the past, has thrown his support towards candidates who'll make life easier for the criminal class. But he's decided this time...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 23) 11/13/2022 Murder, My Sweet (1944) In hopes of changing his image as strictly a song and dance man, musical star Dick Powell campaigned for and won the role of Philip Marlowe, tough guy private eye, in this fine version of...

Rating - Out of a possible 4 22) 11/13/2022 Gun Crazy (1950) Recently released from reform school for trying to steal a gun, John Dahl attends a carnival show featuring sharp-shooter Peggy Cummins. Love blossoms, as does a crime spree. Dahl, willing to go along with various robberies...

FYI, I watched this on an Italian import DVD. The picture quality was good, much better than some of these foreign releases of old non-US-released American films look.

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 21) 11/11/2022 Street of Chance (1942) 1/2 Burgess Meredith is out walking and minding his own business when he's nearly clobbered by falling concrete at a construction site. When a policeman interviews him, Burgess gives him a...

Rating Out of 4 20) 11/11/2022 Lady on a Train (1945) 1/2 While traveling from her San Francisco home to New York, spoiled brat Nikki Collins (Deanna Durbin) witnesses a murder from her train car. The police think the death was an accident, so she tries to get crime novelist David Bruce to...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 18) 11/10/2022 Rogue Cop (1954) Crooked cop Robert Taylor's kid brother Steve Forrest (also on the force) is in the right place at the right time to identify a killer. Crime boss George Raft wants the identification squashed and...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 17) 11/10/2022 Manhandled (1949) Alan Napier dreams of murdering wife Irene Hervey, perhaps because he lusts after her jewelry. He confesses this to psychiatrist Harold Vermilyea, whose new secretary Dorothy Lamour takes session...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 16) 11/09/2022 Guilty Bystander (1950) 1/2 Zachary Scott is an alcoholic ex-cop in need of a shave, a new suit of clothes, and a hot meal. He works (sort of) as the hotel dick at a sleazy place run by Mary Boland, who, in...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 12) 11/07/2022 Chicago Deadline (1949) 1/2 Reporter Alan Ladd is at a hotel looking for a missing teen when a maid's scream redirects his attention to the body in a nearby room. A young woman (Donna Reed) has died from...

Rating - Out of a possible 4 08) 11/04/2022 I Wake Up Screaming (1941) When a promoter's (Victor Mature) latest client (Carole Landis) is murdered, bullish detective Laird Cregar is convinced Mature is guilty. But Landis' sister Betty Grable isn't so sure, so the pair try to find the true...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 05) 11/03/2022 House of Strangers (1949) Richard Conte, once a successful no-nonsense attorney, returns home after a seven year prison stretch bent on revenge against the three brothers who helped put him away. The details of...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 03) 11/02/2022 The File on Thelma Jordan (1949) 1/2 Barbara Stanwyck's elderly aunt thinks someone is trying to burglarize her luxurious home to steal her jewels, so her niece approaches assistant district attorney Wendell Corey...

Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 01) 11/01/2022 In a Lonely Place (1950) 1/2 Started things off with a favorite, featuring one of film noir's most recognizable faces. Humphrey Bogart plays screenwriter Dixon Steele, who hasn't had a hit since coming back from...

What the hell; I'm in this year. B - Blu Ray Viewing D - DVD Viewing R - DVD-R Viewing S - Streaming Bold - Denotes first ever viewing Rating - Out of a possible 4 01) 11/01/2022 B In a Lonely Place (1950) 1/2 02) 11/01/2022 B The Killing (1956) 03) 11/02/2022 B The File on Thelma Jordan...