FilmNoir &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:FilmNoir @settima@mograph.social Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:07:41 +0200 The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qc3r <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" 1940/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary The Killers (1946)/div div class="caption" The July 21 headline. DP: Elwood Bredell./div div class="txt" "Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell." ### – Lt. Sam Lubinsky /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #RobertSiodmak #ErnestHemingway #BurtLancaster #AvaGardner #EdmondOBrien #AlbertDekker #SamLevene #MiklósRózsa #ElwoodBredell #drama #crime #FilmNoir #thriller #sports #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)

Jul

20

1940

spoiler warning: click to toggle image The Killers (1946)

The July 21 headline. DP: Elwood Bredell.

“Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell.”

– Lt. Sam Lubinsky

#FilmDuJour #July #RobertSiodmak #ErnestHemingway #BurtLancaster #AvaGardner #EdmondOBrien #AlbertDekker #SamLevene #MiklósRózsa #ElwoodBredell #drama #crime #FilmNoir #thriller #sports #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qc3r Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200 D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9zjc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="X" /div div class="img" D.O.A. (1949)/div div class="caption" A man's hand signs a car rental contract dated July 18. DP: Ernest Laszlo./div div class="txt" "You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me." ### – Frank Bigelow The Life Magazine displayed at the San Francisco newspaper stand where Frank Bigelow stops is the issue of September 12, 1949, with Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito on the cover./div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #RudolphMaté #EdmondOBrien #DimitriTiomkin #ErnestLaszlo #USA #FilmNoir #crime #action #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949)

Jul

18

D.O.A. (1949)

A man's hand signs a car rental contract dated July 18. DP: Ernest Laszlo.

“You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me.”

– Frank Bigelow

The Life Magazine displayed at the San Francisco newspaper stand where Frank Bigelow stops is the issue of September 12, 1949, with Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito on the cover.

#FilmDuJour #July #RudolphMaté #EdmondOBrien #DimitriTiomkin #ErnestLaszlo #USA #FilmNoir #crime #action #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9zjc Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6vy9 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" 1961/div div class="img" The Naked Kiss (1964)/div div class="caption" A desk calendar reading July 4, 1961, with dirty, crumpled dollar bills thrown on top of it. DP: Stanley Cortez./div div class="txt" "Nobody shoves dirty money in my mouth." ### – Candy /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #SamuelFuller #ConstanceTowers #AnthonyEisley #MichaelDante #VirginiaGrey #PatsyKelly #BettyBronson #PaulDunlap #StanleyCortez #drama #melodrama #prostitution #FilmNoir #USA #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)

Jul

4

1961

The Naked Kiss (1964)

A desk calendar reading July 4, 1961, with dirty, crumpled dollar bills thrown on top of it. DP: Stanley Cortez.

“Nobody shoves dirty money in my mouth.”

– Candy

#FilmDuJour #July #SamuelFuller #ConstanceTowers #AnthonyEisley #MichaelDante #VirginiaGrey #PatsyKelly #BettyBronson #PaulDunlap #StanleyCortez #drama #melodrama #prostitution #FilmNoir #USA #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6vy9 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1mm <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Black Friday (1940)/div div class="caption" DP: Elwood Bredell./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #ArthurLubin #BorisKarloff #BelaLugosi #HansJSalter #FrankSkinner #ElwoodBredell #FilmNoir #SciFi #drama #thriller #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)

Jun

13

Black Friday (1940)

DP: Elwood Bredell.

#FilmDuJour #June #ArthurLubin #BorisKarloff #BelaLugosi #HansJSalter #FrankSkinner #ElwoodBredell #FilmNoir #SciFi #drama #thriller #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1mm Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)/div div class="caption" Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder./div div class="txt" "It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me." ### – Tom Garrett /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

May

7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder.

“It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me.”

– Tom Garrett

#FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 7 p.m./div div class="img" 野獣死すべし (1959)/div div class="caption" Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi./div div class="txt" "He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)

Mar

30

7 p.m.

野獣死すべし (1959)

Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi.

“He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society.”

#FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0200 The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Chase (1946).png)/div div class="caption" A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer./div div class="txt" "Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?" ### – Lorna Roman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)

Mar

21

The Chase (1946)

A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer.

“Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?”

– Lorna Roman

#FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100 Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yb4c <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" Sat/div div class="img" Hell Bound (1957)/div div class="caption" A man writes a name in the 9:30 a.m. time slot of the calendar page for Saturday March 21. DP: Carl E. Guthrie./div div class="txt" "Three days ago, at exactly 0600 – because that is really not the time – on February 5 – because that is really not the date – this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact." ### – narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #WilliamJHoleJr #JohnRussell #JuneBlair #StuartWhitman #DehlBerti #GeorgeEMather #LesBaxter #CarlEGuthrie #crime #drama #romance #FilmNoir #drugs #heist #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957)

Mar

12

Sat

Hell Bound (1957)

A man writes a name in the 9:30 a.m. time slot of the calendar page for Saturday March 21. DP: Carl E. Guthrie.

“Three days ago, at exactly 0600 – because that is really not the time – on February 5 – because that is really not the date – this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact.”

– narrator

#FilmDuJour #March #WilliamJHoleJr #JohnRussell #JuneBlair #StuartWhitman #DehlBerti #GeorgeEMather #LesBaxter #CarlEGuthrie #crime #drama #romance #FilmNoir #drugs #heist #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yb4c Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 暗黒街の美女 (1958)/divdiv class="caption" ###### A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8supth/sup. DP: Wataro Nakao./div div class="txt" Policeman: What's today's date? Injured man: February 8supth/sup. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)

Feb

8

暗黒街の美女 (1958)

A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8th. DP: Wataro Nakao.

Policeman: What's today's date?

Injured man: February 8th.

#FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-27h5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1947/div div class="img" Canon City (1948)/div div class="caption" A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton./div div class="txt" "We're not here to play dominoes." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #CraneWilbur #ScottBrady #JohnAlton #drama #crime #JailBreak #FilmNoir #DocuDrama #thriller #HomeInvasion #CanonCity #Colorado #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)

Dec

30

1947

Canon City (1948)

A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton.

“We're not here to play dominoes.”

#FilmDuJour #December #CraneWilbur #ScottBrady #JohnAlton #drama #crime #JailBreak #FilmNoir #DocuDrama #thriller #HomeInvasion #CanonCity #Colorado #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-27h5 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100