FILM-NOIR Watchlist: 1941
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1. Dangerous Lady (1941)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Out to prove that Hester is not a murderer, detectives Phyllis and Duke Maratindel try to stay one step ahead of the police as they track down the real killer.
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: June Storey, Neil Hamilton, Douglas Fowley, John Holland
Votes: 127
2. Escort Girl (1941)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaus.
Director: Edward Kaye | Stars: Betty Compson, Margaret Marquis, Robert Kellard, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 257
3. Tower of Terror (1941)
62 min | Thriller, War
A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Movita, Michael Rennie, Morland Graham
Votes: 212
4. Unholy Partners (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Drama
A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 548
5. Borrowed Hero (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Roger Andrews, an assistant district attorney, is the accidental hero of a police capture that results in his appointment by crooked civic leaders as a special prosecutor assigned to smash ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Alan Baxter, Florence Rice, Constance Worth, John Hamilton
Votes: 92
6. Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
Approved | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A detective (Roger Pryor) courts a gangster's (Anthony Quinn) ex-wife (Joan Perry) to lure him into a trap.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Joan Perry, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn, Maris Wrixon
Votes: 275
7. Buy Me That Town (1941)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
With the gang business washed up, Rickey Deane, suave first lieutenant to racketeer Chink Moran, and Louie Lanzer, a has-been fighter with itchy fingers, decide to take a peaceful vacation ... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Constance Moore, Albert Dekker, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 75
8. Dangerously They Live (1941)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, War
After a traffic accident involving a taxi in New York City, the Jane Doe passenger is brought into the hospital She is physically all right but is suffering from retrograde amnesia from the... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Lee Patrick
Votes: 536
9. Double Cross (1941)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When a cop is shot dead during a raid, and another is mistakenly shot for killing him, his fellow officer friend goes undercover on his own to bust up the criminal's operation.
Director: Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Kane Richmond, Pauline Moore, Wynne Gibson, John Miljan
Votes: 204
10. The Strangler (1941)
Approved | 75 min | Mystery
The homicidal maniac,who is strangling young women in London's West Side, is being sought by both Scotland Yard and a young reporter/writer, Penny Sutton. She had found one of the murder ... See full summary »
Director: Harold Huth | Stars: Judy Campbell, Sebastian Shaw, Niall MacGinnis, Henry Edwards
Votes: 69
11. Federal Fugitives (1941)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spotting a man in Washington D.C. that he thinks looks like Otto Lieberman, a fugitive that caused a plane crash that killed eight people, government-agent James Madison manages to identify... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Day, Victor Varconi, Charles C. Wilson
Votes: 76
12. Flight from Destiny (1941)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Film-Noir
An elderly professor suffering from an aortic aneurysm confronts the problem of what to do knowing that he only has a few months to live.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn, James Stephenson
Votes: 324
13. The Getaway (1941)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A G-man is sent to prison to befriend a suspected robbery ringleader and then helps him break out to gain his confidence.
Directors: Edward Buzzell, Richard Rosson | Stars: Robert Sterling, Charles Winninger, Donna Reed, Henry O'Neill
Votes: 280
14. Hard Guy (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama
Vic is a night club owner/racketeer whose club is run primarily for the purpose of the club girls marrying the rich blue bloods among the customers, leading to annulments leading to cash settlements and/or blackmail.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Jack La Rue, Mary Healy, Kane Richmond, Iris Adrian
Votes: 64
15. Highway West (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Claire Foster (Brenda Marshall) discovers that her respectable-businessman husband George Foster (Arthur Kennedy) isn't respectable and isn't a businessman, but a gunman in this remake-version of "Heat Lightning".
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Brenda Marshall, Arthur Kennedy, William Lundigan, Olympe Bradna
Votes: 156
16. Hurricane Smith (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new and happy life for himself. But one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Ray Middleton, Jane Wyatt, Harry Davenport, J. Edward Bromberg
Votes: 42
17. I'll Sell My Life (1941)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As Freddie and Lugger, employees of Bovhini, are waiting in the parking lot of the Club Sirocco for Ruth Parmelee, they see a woman accost Ruth and then shoot her and speed away in a car. ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen, Stanley Fields, Joan Woodbury
Votes: 60
18. I'll Wait for You (1941)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A gangster (Robert Sterling) hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter (Marsha Hunt).
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Robert Sterling, Marsha Hunt, Virginia Weidler, Paul Kelly
Votes: 222
19. Lucky Devils (1941)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A triad of rival news journalist go to great lengths in sabotaging each other, but come together as heroes when they're unwittingly embroiled in a sinister foreign intelligence plot to blow up a dam.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Dorothy Lovett, Janet Shaw
Votes: 27
20. Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941)
Approved | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Assistant District Attorney P. Cadwallader Jones (James Ellison) and his sweetheart Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), a newspaper reporter, are about to be married when news comes that ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: James Ellison, Virginia Gilmore, Franklin Pangborn, Paul Harvey
Votes: 27
21. The Officer and the Lady (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Helen Regan (Rochelle Hudson) is the daughter of a crippled ex-police officer whose disability makes her hesitant about getting romantically involved with policeman Bob Condon (Bruce ... See full summary »
Director: Sam White | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Bruce Bennett, Roger Pryor, Richard Fiske
Votes: 20
22. Pacific Blackout (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Mystery
While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new range finder for ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Martha O'Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Eva Gabor
Votes: 78
23. The Penalty (1941)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The son of a murderer is entangled in his father's crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Marsha Hunt, Robert Sterling
Votes: 232
24. Roar of the Press (1941)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Jean Parker, Wallace Ford, Jed Prouty, Suzanne Kaaren
Votes: 151
25. Scotland Yard (1941)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Edmund Gwenn, John Loder, Henry Wilcoxon
Votes: 66
26. Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey
Votes: 1,098
27. Death Cell (1941)
Approved | 73 min | Mystery
James Mason as a private detective, whose father is a Scotland Yard man, takes a case involving extortion and kidnapping. A young girl is kidnapped from a nursing home and he advises the ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: James Mason, Mary Clare, Margaret Vyner, Gordon McLeod
Votes: 37
28. No Hands on the Clock (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery
The first of three Pine-Thomas productions for Chester Morris finds him as wise-cracking private detective Humphrey Campbell who impresses his boss, Oscar Flack, no end by not only finding ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Rose Hobart, Dick Purcell
Votes: 237
29. You're Out of Luck (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Mystery
An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Frankie Darro, Kay Sutton, Mantan Moreland, Vickie Lester
Votes: 91
30. Secret Evidence (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama
PRC - Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Ward McTaggart, Kenneth Harlan, Donald Curtis. When Reynolds becomes engaged to the local DA, played by Quigley, her former boyfriend gangster ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart, Howard Masters
Votes: 74
31. Mr. Dynamite (1941)
63 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Irene Hervey, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 80
32. Sleepers West (1941)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt
Votes: 637
33. The Gang's All Here (1941)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran, Keye Luke
Votes: 224
34. Gambling Daughters (1941)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Cecilia Parker, Roger Pryor, Robert Baldwin, Gale Storm
Votes: 33
35. Criminals Within (1941)
Approved | 70 min | Drama
A scientist is murdered by foreign agents after having developed a powerful new explosive. The scientist's brother, an army corporal, goes AWOL to discover the identities of the killers. ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Eric Linden, Ann Doran, Constance Worth, Donald Curtis
Votes: 105
36. Lady Scarface (1941)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lieutenant Bill Mason (Dennis O'Keefe) pursues a Chicago gang to New York City, unaware that its scar-cheeked leader, Slade (Dame Judith Anderson), is a woman.
Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Judith Anderson, Frances E. Neal, Mildred Coles
Votes: 309
37. Bombsight Stolen (1941)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 1,365
38. International Lady (1941)
Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The film opens with a German air raid over the skies of London, and moves to the attempts of the F.B.I. and Scotland Yard investigators trying to circumvent the attempts of a sabotage ring ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: George Brent, Ilona Massey, Basil Rathbone, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 263
39. Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Mystery
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Mona Barrie
Votes: 186
40. Swamp Woman (1941)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Into the vast swamplands hurry three people; honky tonk dancer Annabelle Tollington (Ann Corio), cheap promoter "Flash" Bland (Jay Novello) trying to catch Annabelle, and escaping convict ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Ann Corio, Jack La Rue, Mary Hull, Ian MacDonald
Votes: 97
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