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A not-so-scholarly film-noir podcast, Scott and Bill run through one movie from the golden age of film-noir. New episodes every other Friday.
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
63 minutes
English
United States
34 episodes
since May 14, 2020
episodic
explicit content
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The 1940 classic Stranger on the Third Floor is covered this week. Rising reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing innocence. Michael's girl Jane believes in Joe and blames Michael, wh…
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The 1955 thriller Les Diaboliques is this week's pick. In this classic of French suspense, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. T…
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1949's the Window is covered this week. When young Tommy sneaks out of his bedroom and onto the fire escape of his tenement building, he sees two neighbors, Joe and Jean Kellerson, murder a sailor. Tommy, who has been reprimanded before by his parents for telling phony stories, infor…
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1947's the Red House is this week's pick. Meg lives with her adoptive parents, Pete and Ellen Morgan. When Nath, a classmate of Meg's, comes to help on their farm, Pete repeatedly tells Meg and Nath to stay out of the surrounding woods. Out of curiosity, they disobey, and Pete is ira…
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1954's Riot in Cell Block 11 is this week's discussion. Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards, and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials. Featuring Crazy Mik…
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This week we talk about the 1947 Orson Welles flick Lady From Shanghai. A seaman becomes involved in a complex murder plot when he is hired to work on a yacht. He soon finds himself implicated in the murder, despite his innocence. Featuring a fantastic hall of mirrors segment.
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The 1950 train-themed film noir/crime flick Union Station is discussed this week. A sharp-eyed woman spots a man with a gun on a train and her alert to the railroad police helps them in their search for a ruthless gang who have kidnapped a blind heiress.
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We return from a break with a discussion about 1949's Johnny Stool Pigeon. A narcotics agent convinces a convict he helped send to Alcatraz go undercover with him to help expose a heroin drug-smuggling ring.
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The 1949 or 1950 (depending on your source) film D.O.A. is covered this week. Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the hel…
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1947's Crossfire is the film we talk about this week: A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why? Featuring Robert Mitchum in a role he could've cared less about playing.
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