FILM-NOIR Watchlist: 1943
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- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsJerome CowanFaye EmersonGene LockhartJohn 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. Molner has taught the bird to repeat "Don't kill me, Rhodes" in the event he is murdered by a member of a gambling syndicate he has defrauded. Going to Molner's apartment, Trees finds him murdered and his bodyguard, Ray Hickey (John Harmon), unconscious. Clues lead Trees to Mona Vance (Faye Emerson, Molner's girlfriend, who is involved with Mark Harper (Robert Kent, presumably her lawyer.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsRichard DixRussell WadeEdith BarrettThird Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsJohn AbbottMary McLeodLloyd CorriganA man helps the authorities uncover a ring of murderous German spies in wartime London.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsChester MorrisErik RolfJeanne BatesSleuth Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) helps a wartime convict (Erik Rolf) who was framed for a murder while out on parole.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsWarner BaxterMargaret LindsayJohn LitelAmnesia 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.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsBen LyonAnne CrawfordDavid FarrarA struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsEdward G. RobinsonCharles BoyerBarbara StanwyckAn anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsIda LupinoJoan LeslieDennis MorganEmbittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJames CagneyGrace GeorgeMarjorie MainNewspaper man wanders about and helps older woman save her paper.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret LockwoodJames MasonPhyllis CalvertAfter 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.
- DirectorAlexis Thurn-TaxisStarsBarton MacLaneCharlotte WyntersLyle TalbotJohn 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.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsWilliam GarganMargaret LindsayPhyllis BrooksPrivate 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.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsEric PortmanAnn DvorakWalter FitzgeraldEquipped 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 propaganda. Unfortunately for him, he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it, he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyStarsJohn LitelAlan BaxterEric BloreShip 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 out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsJames MasonJoyce HowardTom WallsDuring WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsRichard TravisVirginia ChristineCharles LangAn 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 an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsVictor JoryPamela BlakeVeda Ann BorgResidents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsEdward NorrisJoan WoodburyJack La RuePlayboy 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 convicted with Johnny. Stung by the injustice, when even his fiancée believes him guilty, Johnny becomes an unruly prisoner and is put in a cell with Cain, head of the prison gang planning a break. The new warden, Frank Sanders, wins Johnny over by changing his cell mate and giving him a chance to work in the prison gardens. Here, he meets Amy Duncan, daughter of prison guard Duncan. In an failed escaped, engineered from the outside by Rico, who is killed, one of Rico's men confesses that Johnny is innocent.