Three strangers, three incredibly dangerous people drawn together by their greed. Each ready to kill for the riches of ...Kwan Yin.

Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece.

Negulesco and noir - a heady brew. Jean Negulesco proved his stunning noir debut The Mask of Dimitrios was no fluke by following up with an astonishing run of film noir classics.

Tough detectives, pretty women, ace reporters. All staples of the film-noir genre and exemplified by these two films.

Who killed showgirl Mida King (Patricia Dane) in a private railway car in New York’s Grand Central Station?

A stranger with a mysterious past arrives in a small, quiet Ohio town and forever changes the lives he touches.

Money is the root of all evil in this "solid documentary-style crime thriller" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) starring Don DeFore and Andrea King.

A lean, fast-paced thriller for fans who like hard-boiled detectives and hard-time dames, Murder Is My Beat boasts noir talent on both sides of the camera: director Edgar G. Ulmer and star Barbara Payton, who sizzled in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.

Homicide detective Van Johnson tracks down a cop killer in this hardboiled crime thriller costarring Gloria DeHaven, from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of The Bad and the Beautiful.

Director Jules Dassin (Night and the City) combines the best of film noir, crime caper and romance in this little gem starring Lucille Ball, John Hodiak and Lloyd Nolan.

Forced to retire because his techniques are deemed "old-fashioned," a Scotland Yard detective and his friend conspire to dupe a young arrogant detective by committing the perfect murder.

Motorcycle cops Ralph Meeker and Robert Horton investigate the murder of a fellow officer in this action-packed semi-documentary style crime drama.

Victor Grandison, a suave radio host of a weekly radio crime series secretly commits the perfect murder, then puts the case on the air. Claude Rains (Casablanca) plays the smooth, scheming radio star in this swanky film noir.

Broke and with a family to support, charter-boat skipper Harry Morgan makes a desperate gamble. For cash that will save his boat from creditors, he ferries gangsters to safety after a racing-track heist. But when you gamble, sometimes you lose.

Nine-year-old Tommy Woodry has a history of making things up, but he insists he really saw a murder in his apartment building! No one believes Tommy’s story. No one except the killers.

The true-life Baltimore Plot provides the inspiration for this Hollywood thriller directed with film noir overtones by Anthony Mann and possessing a real feel for the powder-keg political atmosphere of 1861.

An FDA agent poses as a long-distance trucker to bust a bootleg amphetamine racket in this action-packed exposé starring Peter Graves and Chuck Connors.

When a reporter whose testimony sentences a small-time loser to the electric chair for murder is himself fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are a furtive stranger.

Matt Brennan knows how to open eyes to the potential of the experimental jet, the JA-3. He’ll pilot it from Nome over the North Pole to Washington, DC and land it on the Pentagon’s lap. The distance is beyond the JA-3’s tested range.

The story revolves around a war-surplus racket operated from an island off the Central American coast, where federal agent Robert Taylor runs into the only thing steamier than the weather: Ava Gardner.

A spirited demoiselle is determined to save her fiancé’s grandfather from his malevolent – and possibly homicidal – servants. A cloaked stranger comes to her aid as the plot turns from suspicion to murder to the hunt for a missing will.

Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.

A woman who was denied the locket in childhood now turns her charms on man after man as she plots jewel theft after jewel theft…and theft ultimately leads to murder. The film’s intricate use of flashbacks has earned it cult status.

The city prosecutor’s daughter knows Johnny is bad news – and, oh, how she’d love to be bad. Johnny uses everybody in a scheme to secure his crime empire and revenge himself against the city prosecutor who once put him behind bars.

Four postwar heroes – a veritable United Nations from Britain,France,Russia and the U.S. – battle a cadre of diehard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman in this tense espionage thriller starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and Paul Lukas.

Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn in their only screen pairing. Stanwyck is Sandra, a recent widow who visits her husband’s family for the first time and finds herself drawn to a man she should fear: her husband’s remote, controlling uncle (Flynn).

Killer Red Kluger busts out of Folsom Prison and makes for a desert hideout. But first he makes a detour to Los Angeles to kidnap the three people he blames for his ticket to the gas chamber: a cop, the DA and ex-girlfriend he believes betrayed him.

In this chilling, iconic film noir, Robert Mitchum plays a new bride’s (Kim Hunter) former beau, who provides a strong shoulder to lean on when his ex suspects the mysterious man she married (Dean Jagger) may be a killer.

Director Jacques Tourneur brings his celebrated mastery of shadowy menace to this absorbing tale of madness and murder in an outwardly genteel world of wealth. Follow Dr. Bailey as he searches for the truth, but don’t believe everything you're told.

Steven Kenet says he killed his wife, but even he doesn’t really know. A wartime head trauma has left him subject to disorientations and blackouts. So he enters a psych ward where, the DA asserts, he’ll hide behind the wall of an insanity plea.

Bette Davis stars with Barry Sullivan in this compelling look at why people drift apart in marriage and seek divorce, with all its consequences.

Peggy feels trapped to her husband Tod, a famed painter whose career and eyesight she destroyed during a violent quarrel. A war-traumatized sailor who wants Peggy for himself is convinced Tod feigns blindness to control her.

Torch singer Petey Brown is beautiful and smart. The beautiful gets her in trouble. She’ll need all of the smart to get out of it in this bluesy, boozy noir salute to tough dames in tough times.

Cops swarm a Central Park crime scene where a cold corpse sits in a hot car. The victim, a Jane Doe, with a tattoo on her arm was shot elsewhere and driven to the park in the stolen sedan.

A respected doctor fakes his death, deserts his family, throws away his career and drives himself to the edge of madness – all for the love of saloon singer Nora Prentiss.

A bank teller (Barry Sullivan) faces ruin when he’s falsely suspected of grand larceny. Film noir icon Charles McGraw plays a bulldog of an insurance investigator. With Dorothy Malone.

William Lundigan stars in Follow Me Quietly as a cop on the trail of an elusive serial killer who strikes when darkness and rain fall.

Five travelers sweat it out at gunpoint in an abandoned mining town in the Nevada desert. A killer escaped from the pen holds them, intending to scram after a doc tends to his wounded accomplice.

Five Film Noir Classics make up this five-disc collection: THE CASE AGAINST BROOKLYN, CRIMINAL LAWYER, THE CROOKED WEB, ESCAPE FROM SAN QUENTIN, THE SHADOW ON THE WINDOW.

Soon after L.A. police detective Mike Carter is bounced from the force, the officer who fired him is found dead. Suspect #1: Mike Carter. Carter scrambles to clear his name, connecting the dots.

A cop with financial problems turns crooked.

Bail bondsmen and all-around tough guy George Raft gets tangled up with his former flame, her jailbird husband…and murder. Pat O’Brien costars; Ted Tetzlaff (The Window) directs.

Crime reporter Mike Reese has a nose for news and an eager hand for money in return for spinning the truth. But after trying to cash in on a story involving a maid accused of a society murder, he ultimately finds the courage to reveal the truth.

Joan Crawford stars as the stylish leader of a gang of thieves, utilizing her brains and beauty to control and motivate her loyal hit man.

Let other movie ice queens skate into happily-ever-after. Belita straps on her blades for the noir-on-ice thriller Suspense, a torrid tale of an ice-show star who commits adultery for the man she loves – and of the man who commits murder for her.

Bill Clark is a brooding, ex-con who has spent his entire adult life behind bars. When a reporter posts a front-page story on his release he leaves town. He heads to New York for a fresh start, but finds more complications with a dancehall dame.

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio.

After a night of partying, a man awakens in an unfamiliar room -- with a dead blonde in the closet. Did he kill her? A snappy film noir based on a story by Cornell Woolrich.

The gangster grew up tough, got tougher with the years. Now slicker, smarter criminals are moving in. He prided himself on his control of any situation but realizes he may not be tough enough as self-confidence becomes the unfamiliar emotion of fear.

After a train wreck sends art critic George Steele into a mental tailspin, he’s fired from his job at a New York art museum. Seems unjust – until you learn there was no train wreck..

The Black Hand has tightened its grip on NYC’s Little Italy of the early 1900s. Ernest Borgnine stars in this hard-hitting, fact-based crime saga directed by Richard Wilson, who created a stir the prior year with the gangster saga Al Capone.

Steve Cochran (White Heat) plays George Legenza, the hot-headed, quick-fingered leader of the Tri-State Gang. The gang is elusive, tight-lipped, and stone-cold murderous. But it’s starting to fray from within...

When a Cuban man is killed on a New York street, the investigation leads to Havana and the man running an alien smuggling ring. The immigration detective assigned to the case in Havana poses as a Hungarian refugee to infiltrate the ring.

Hawkins is an insurance investigator who discovers that Price is selling valuable paintings to rich Americans and substituting forgeries that are mysteriously destroyed in fires.

A thriller about a wife who has an affair while her GI husband is off fighting in the Pacific. Then, after the war and happily reunited with her husband, she stabs the castoff lover in what may or may not be a case of self-defense.

Clark Gable and Lana Turner team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself.

A federal agent on a dangerous assignment -- he must go underground to flush out a nefarious spy ring. Leonard Maltin praises this suspenseful political tales as "low key, and effective."

Lovejoy, the granite-jawed leading man in such ’50s gems of paranoia as The Hitch-Hiker and Shack Out on 101, takes his tough-guy persona and gives it a gutsy twist, creating an unusually provocative crime-caper protagonist: a crook with a conscience.

In an era when some officials sought to weed out Communists real and imagined, Hollywood made numerous films that exploited the times. Among them: I Was a Communist for the FBI and this film – originally titled I Married a Communist.

Bill lost everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. When his little girl is injured in a car accident outside Chicago and his wife says she will call later it's a race-against-the-clock to keep his phone from being disconnected.

Master con artist Anthony Wells and his team of sham spiritualists and séance operators have targeted a wealthy widow by convincing her she can get in touch with her deceased son. The con is on, and the LAPD’s Bunco squad is out to stop it.

The director and screenwriter of Bette Davis’s Beyond the Forest – King Vidor (The Fountainhead) and Lenore Coffee (The End of the Affair) – reteam in a richly atmospheric mix of mystery, romance and murder sparked by a luminous cast.

The cops have no interest in any of the suspects in the lineup. Laura does. She’s has a hunch one of them is the person who gunned down her father. The law turns the man free. Laura, a college student with no training, turns detective.

Respected newspaperman Haven D. Allridge goes after the vicious petty Napoleon who holds a small town in his corrupt grasp. In the midst of his campaign to expose the crook, Allridge suddenly skips town. Is he a sellout?

I Died a Thousand Times brings vivid Warnercolor richness and the enveloping expanse of CinemaScope to the gritty saga of old-timer Roy “Mad Dog” Earle (Jack Palance).

How would World War II veterans adjust to life on the postwar home front? Violence is a trim, noir-edged thriller wrapped around a then-topical story of a racketeering organization that recruits angry war veterans into its violent agenda.

The final bequest of millionaire Malcolm Taylor, missing nearly seven years and about to be declared dead, will go into effect and his heirs will own his Sans Souci estate. But dreams of wealth and power slip from everyone’s grasp.

Released in 1951, Hard, Fast and Beautiful foresaw our modern era of big-time women’s sports – and of driven parents who would stop at nothing to “help” their daughters grab the golden ring.

Five Alcatraz inmates have found a way to escape the Rock: earn their freedom by becoming human guinea pigs in a risky radiation experiment aimed at treating blood diseases. The experiment is soon scuttled after one of them kills another inmate.

Mickey Rooney at the age of 27 was eager to move into grown-up dramatic roles. So he laced up the gloves as feisty boxer Tommy McCoy and scored a resounding box-office K.O. in the hard-hitting Killer McCoy.

A law student commits robbery and a murder -- but will he be caught?

Taking on one of the hottest sports-world issues of the ’50s, Hot News has everything a fan of hard-boiled B’s wants: gambling kingpins, punch-drunk pugilists, good-girl brunettes and good-time blondes in a tale of corruption and its consequences.