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  • 1 The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep

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    A private eye is hired to protect a socialite from the consequences of her own indiscretions, but reckons without a chain of killings and blackmail. Thriller, with Humphrey Bogart
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  • 2 Build My Gallows High

    Build My Gallows High

    A former private eye is summoned to meet an old client, and relates the story of the woman who came between them. Film noir, with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas
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  • 3 The Killers

    The Killers

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    An insurance investigator attempts to piece together the life of a murdered gangster. Classic drama, starring Burt Lancaster in his film debut, with Ava Gardner and Albert Dekker
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  • 4 Murder, My Sweet

    Murder, My Sweet

    A tough Los Angeles private eye is hired to find the missing girlfriend of an ex-convict. Crime drama based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
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  • 5 Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard

    Billy Wilder's stylish melodrama, starring Gloria Swanson as an washed-up silent movie star who persuades a struggling writer to help her make a comeback. William Holden also stars
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  • 6 The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window

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    Edward G Robinson stars as a married professor forced to look on helplessly as the woman of his dreams tears his world apart. Psychological thriller, with Joan Bennett
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  • 7 Kiss of Death

    Kiss of Death

    Gangster thriller, starring Richard Widmark as a psychopathic killer sent to silence informer and small-time crook Victor Mature. With Brian Donlevy
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  • 8 Sorry, Wrong Number

    Sorry, Wrong Number

    A bedridden woman accidentally eavesdrops on two men plotting murder on the telephone and frantically tries to raise the alarm. Thriller, with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster
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  • 9 Laura

    Laura

    A supposed woman murder victim turns out to be alive, so a New York detective tries to find out the real identity of the corpse. Murder mystery, with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews
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  • 10 White Heat

    White Heat

    Undercover agent Edmund O'Brien infiltrates a gang led by unbalanced, mother-fixated crook James Cagney and sets about engineering his downfall. Classic drama, also starring Virginia Mayo and Margaret Wycherly
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  • Angels2
    10 months ago, Angels2 said:
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    Great film-noir, we love them all, build my gallows high baby, is dialogue from the movie, the movie is title Out Of The Past.......... Report abuse
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