FILM-NOIR Watchlist: 1947
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1. 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore
Votes: 3,067
2. The Arnelo Affair (1947)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lawyer's wife starts an affair with a mobster but is confronted by his other flame who ends up murdered and the adulterous wife is set up to take the blame for the killing.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: John Hodiak, George Murphy, Frances Gifford, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 459
3. Backlash (1947)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detectives try to solve the case of a murdered Los Angeles defense attorney.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge
Votes: 545
4. Big Town After Dark (1947)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Director: William C. Thomas | Stars: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis
Votes: 283
5. Blackmail (1947)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Although he hasn't decided to take the job, the blackmailers believe that he already has, and he is marked for murder.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers
Votes: 278
6. Blind Spot (1947)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mystery writer accused of murdering his publisher sets out to discover the real killer.
Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, James Bell
Votes: 202
7. The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Detective Philip Marlowe encounters a variety of characters while checking on why Leslie Murdock stole a rare doubloon from his mother.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts
Votes: 1,386
8. Dancing with Crime (1947)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry Marsh
Votes: 485
9. Dear Murderer (1947)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed
Votes: 1,113
10. Desperate (1947)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A young married couple flee both the police and a gangster out for revenge.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 2,614
11. The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Law-abiding Jimmy Ferguson soon regrets giving a ride to killer Steve Morgan.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford
Votes: 1,030
12. Fall Guy (1947)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tom Cochrane (Leo Penn'), full of dope (cocaine) and covered with blood, is picked up by the police and then questioned by detectives Shannon (Douglas Fowley) and Taylor (Harry Strang), but... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Teala Loring, Robert Armstrong, Leo Penn, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 214
13. The Flame (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman falls for the victim of an intended blackmail plot.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 404
14. For You I Die (1947)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young convict,Johnny Coulter, serving as a trustee and with only a year remaining on his sentence, is forced to participate in a prison break by one of the hardened criminals. They ... See full summary »
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Cathy Downs, Paul Langton, Mischa Auer, Roman Bohnen
Votes: 286
15. Framed (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mike Lambert, seeking a mining job, instead becomes the patsy for a femme-fatale's schemes.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 2,288
16. The Gangster (1947)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Shubunka (Barry Sulivan) is a cynical gangster who controls the Neptune Beach waterfront. He runs a numbers racket with the local soda shop owner. The police are in his pocket and the local hoods are on his payroll.
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 1,071
17. The Guilty (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes again.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, John Litel
Votes: 765
18. High Tide (1947)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh... See full summary »
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw
Votes: 641
19. High Wall (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick
Votes: 1,933
20. I Walk Alone (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey
Votes: 3,291
21. The Invisible Wall (1947)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a mob boss sends gambler Harry Lane to Vegas to deliver 20K to a contact, Harry gambles the money away and must somehow recover it before getting into trouble with his employer.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Don Castle, Virginia Christine, Richard Gaines, Arthur Space
Votes: 128
22. It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Edward Chapman
Votes: 2,380 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Key Witness (1947)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd, Helen Mowery
Votes: 236
24. The Long Night (1947)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 2,011
25. Love from a Stranger (1947)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, John Howard
Votes: 294
26. The Mark of Cain (1947)
88 min | Crime, Drama
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Eric Portman, Sally Gray, Patrick Holt, Dermot Walsh
Votes: 128
27. Mine Own Executioner (1947)
108 min | Drama, Thriller
Pretty Molly Lucian (Barbara White) enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam (Kieron Moore), who refuses ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden
Votes: 485
28. Moss Rose (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
Set in turn-of-the-century London, a woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price
Votes: 712
29. Mr. District Attorney (1947)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Adolphe Menjou, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O'Shea
Votes: 221
30. My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 3,843
31. The October Man (1947)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Mystery
When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh
Votes: 1,500
32. The Other Love (1947)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Karen Duncan, a seriously ill concert pianist, enters a Swiss sanatorium where she's attracted to Dr. Tony Stanton. Ignoring his warnings about resting, she leaves for Monte Carlo with Paul Clermont despite possibly fatal consequences.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 920
33. The Pretender (1947)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Banker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her ... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake, Alan Carney
Votes: 382
34. Railroaded! (1947)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph
Votes: 1,806
35. Ramrod (1947)
Passed | 94 min | Action, Romance, Western
Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,849
36. Repeat Performance (1947)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,954
37. Riffraff (1947)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A plane takes off from Peru (in a long, no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil location maps; everyone who is after... See full summary »
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys, Percy Kilbride
Votes: 626
38. Roses Are Red (1947)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A paroled convict who bears a striking resemblance to the local District Attorney is hired by the mob to impersonate him, while the real District Attorney is kidnapped and held captive at a secret location.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Don Castle, Peggy Knudsen, Patricia Knight, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 263
39. Shoot to Kill (1947)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman apparently marries a corrupt deputy D.A. to get evidence that a certain criminal was framed for murder.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Russell Wade, Luana Walters, Edmund MacDonald, Robert Kent
Votes: 667
40. The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
Director: George King | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 325
41. T-Men (1947)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder, Mary Meade
Votes: 3,909
42. Take My Life (1947)
79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Philippa Shelley races against time to clear her husband Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. While she works on getting proof, the prosecution is doing all it can to force a conviction.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Leo Bieber, Marjorie Mars
Votes: 429
43. I Became a Criminal (1947)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, Rene Ray
Votes: 1,917
44. The Thirteenth Hour (1947)
Passed | 65 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
In the 7th of Columbia's "Whistler" series, truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm, and shortly thereafter is slugged by a masked assailant who steals the... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon
Votes: 323
45. Time Out of Mind (1947)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
The son of a wealthy Maine shipping magnate causes a crisis in the family when he announces that he wants a career in music rather than in the family business.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert
Votes: 188
46. The Unfaithful (1947)
Approved | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Los Angeles socialite kills a man while home alone one night and claims he was an intruder she did not know. It seems like a clear case of self defense until the story hits the papers and people connected to the dead man come forward.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 1,617
47. The Upturned Glass (1947)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Ann Stephens
Votes: 1,355
48. Violence (1947)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Undercover reporter Ann Mason infiltrates a neo-fascist group that recruits disgruntled veterans, but amnesia prevents her from exposing them.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, Sheldon Leonard, Peter Whitney
Votes: 481
49. Whispering City (1947)
98 min | Crime, Drama
When a nagging wife commits suicide, her husband is threatened with a murder frame by his lawyer, unless he kills a certain female reporter for him.
Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Helmut Dantine, Mary Anderson, Paul Lukas, John Pratt
Votes: 395
50. The Woman on the Beach (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Votes: 2,648
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