Uses over 30 film clips and interviews about the tough guys and the femme fatales to illustrate the aspects of the film noir genre. Jeffrey Wells discusses _Big Sleep, The (1946)_ , Touch of Evil (1958), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), D.O.A. (1950), Out of the Past (1947), _Against All Odds_, Laura (1944), and Kiss of Death (1947). Film noir is Hollywood's truly original vision of the shadowy, smoky underworld populated by beautiful dames and the regular Joes who fell for them. In films from the early 1940s to the present day, they entertain us with intrigue, conflict, and lust.

Based on the flop play, Midnight (1930) Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Gar Boni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.

四十年代拉乌尔·沃尔什执导的一部精典黑帮动作片。这部影片充分体现了拉乌尔·沃尔什的执导风格以及对角色的把握能力，叙事风格爽朗有劲，处理对白像打拳击一样你来我往拳拳到肉，将主人翁的性格魅力发挥得淋漓尽致。
开货车的兄弟俩个，一方面要对付狡诈的老板，另一方面又分别追求女友安·谢莉丹和艾达·卢皮诺……

1940 film directed by Michael Curtiz

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

《约翰·坎迪：我喜欢我》由科林·汉克斯执导，瑞安·雷诺兹监制，汇集了最了解约翰的人们，通过珍贵的影像资料、访谈以及从未公开的片段，饱含深情地讲述他的故事。这是一部感人至深的致敬影片，致敬这位有史以来最受喜爱的演员之一的人生、事业和传奇。