WHITE HEAT (1949)
byA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist…
1940s
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949)
byA distant poor relative of the Duke of D’Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
byWith his family away on vacation, a respectable psychology professor succumbs to the siren call of adventure, with deadly results.
THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
byAfter murdering someone, a magazine tycoon tries to frame an unknown, innocent man of the murder instead, while the innocent man tries to solve the murder himself.
PHANTOM LADY (1944)
byA devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn’t murder his selfish wife.
SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946)
byA detective takes a vacation to a small inn, where he meets and falls in love with the hotelier’s daughter, who’d been betrothed to a neighbouring farmer, but on the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear…
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)
byA woman is employed to work for a wealthy widow, but awakens to find it’s two days later and she has a new identity as the daughter-in-law of her employer…
LAURA (1944)
byA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
byAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
THE UNINVITED (1944)
byA composer and his sister discover that the only reason they’re able to afford a beautiful Gothic seacoast mansion is down to the house’s unsavoury past.
MAGNIFICENT DOLL (1946)
byThe daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, D.C. falls in love with two men…
FOUR FILM NOIR CLASSICS • THE DARK MIRROR (1946) • SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR (1947) • FORCE OF EVIL (1948) • THE BIG COMBO (1955)
byArriving in ‘Noirvember’, Arrow Films’ Four Film Noir Classics box-set brings together movies by some of the most interesting directors working in Hollywood during the…