FILM-NOIR Watchlist: 1943
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1. Find the Blackmailer (1943)
Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
John Rhodes (Gene Lockhart)hires private detective D. L. Trees (Jerome Cowan)to track down a talking blackbird owned by Fred Molner, who uses the bird as a means of blackmailing Rhodes. ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Hoshelle
Votes: 327
2. The Ghost Ship (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Third Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard
Votes: 3,789
3. London Blackout Murders (1943)
Approved | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man helps the authorities uncover a ring of murderous German spies in wartime London.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Abbott, Mary McLeod, Lloyd Corrigan, Lester Matthews
Votes: 149
4. The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Sleuth Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) helps a wartime convict (Erik Rolf) who was framed for a murder while out on parole.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Chester Morris, Erik Rolf, Jeanne Bates, Richard Lane
Votes: 298
5. Crime Doctor (1943)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a criminal.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Ray Collins
Votes: 588
6. The Dark Tower (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom
Votes: 444
7. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field
Votes: 1,151
8. The Hard Way (1943)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson
Votes: 1,493
9. Johnny Come Lately (1943)
Passed | 97 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Newspaper man wanders about and helps older woman save her paper.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: James Cagney, Grace George, Marjorie Main, Marjorie Lord
Votes: 745
10. The Man in Grey (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance
After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Votes: 1,592
11. Man of Courage (1943)
66 min | Drama
John Wallace is a crusading district attorney. The mob boss George Dickson is his number one target. Dickson enjoys the protection of several crooked politicians. With perseverance, Wallace collars his quarry and brings Dickson to trial.
Director: Alexis Thurn-Taxis | Stars: Barton MacLane, Charlotte Wynters, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess
Votes: 78
12. No Place for a Lady (1943)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Private detective Jess Arno and his real estate agent fiance June try to solve the murder when a tire magnate's body is found at a beach house.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Phyllis Brooks, Dick Purcell
Votes: 83
13. Squadron Leader X (1943)
90 min | War, Drama
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players cigarettes, a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British ... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak, Walter Fitzgerald, Martin Miller
Votes: 24
14. Submarine Base (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an ... See full summary »
Director: Albert H. Kelley | Stars: John Litel, Alan Baxter, Eric Blore, Georges Metaxa
Votes: 226
15. They Met in the Dark (1943)
Approved | 95 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: James Mason, Joyce Howard, Tom Walls, Phyllis Stanley
Votes: 540
16. Truck Busters (1943)
Approved | 58 min | Drama
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in... See full summary »
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Richard Travis, Virginia Christine, Charles Lang, Ruth Ford
Votes: 97
17. The Unknown Guest (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Mystery
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Victor Jory, Pamela Blake, Veda Ann Borg, Harry Hayden
Votes: 57
18. You Can't Beat the Law (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Drama
Playboy Johnny Gray is framed and sent to prison after his stolen car is found at a holdup committed by Rico, and while the latter is not suspected, his henchman Harry, Creeper and Red are ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Edward Norris, Joan Woodbury, Jack La Rue, Milburn Stone
Votes: 89
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