*All times are PT. Please check your local listings to confirm dates and times.
Tuesday, April 1, 2:00 AM & Tuesday, April 15, 9:15 AM
FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE a.k.a DOOR-TO-DOOR (1961): Johnny Cash (who also wrote and sang the titles song) stars in this late era noir as a dangerous criminal Johnny Cabbot tasked by his partner (Vic Tabyback) to kidnap a bank president’s wife. Things get complicated when the banker reveals that he has a mistress he’d like to trade in his wife in for, and kidnapper Cabbot is a perv. Dir. Bill Kern
Thursday, April 4, 5:00 PM
KLUTE (1971) Small town detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) journeys to the Big Apple to search for a missing friend. He has only one lead: an obscene letter from the man to New York City prostitute Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda). He unravels both the mystery of the missing man and of the call girl. Fonda won a well-deserved Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the disturbed and disturbing Bree. Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Saturday, April 5, 9:00 PM & Sunday, April 6, 7:00 AM
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952): Marie Windsor gives one of her signature performances in this heralded thriller, one of the most inventive B films of the classic noir era. Set mostly on a train rife with killers, a tough cop (Charles McGraw) is assigned to haul a mobster’s wife to L.A. to testify against a gang of mobsters. It’s a toss-up as to what’s more exciting—Richard Fleischer’s propulsive handling of the spirited action sequences or Windsor and McGraw, chest to chest, spewing hardboiled insults at each other all the way from Chicago to L.A. Earl Felton’s dialogue snaps, crackles, and pops, and Fleischer’s dynamic direction is explosive enough to have blasted him out of the B unit and into the ranks of Hollywood’s preeminent directors for the next thirty-five years. Dir. Richard Fleischer
Sunday, April 6, 5:00 PM
DEAD MEN DON’T WEAR PLAID (1982): Edited by Bud Molin, this loving parody of film noir is partly a collage film, incorporating clips from 19 classic noirs. Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward), daughter of scientist and cheesemaker John Forrest, asks private investigator Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) to investigate her father's death. Film noir shenanigans ensue with a host of Hollywood greats including Humphrey Bogart, Joan Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price, and Barbara Stanwyck. Director of photography Michael Chapman studied the angles and lighting popular among '40s film noir, conducting six months of research with Technicolor to try to match the old film clips with his new footage. Legendary costume designer Edith Head designed the film’s costumes, this was her final project, and the film is dedicated to her. Dir. Carl Reiner
Tuesday, April 8, 5:30 AM – 1:15 PM
5:30 AM
THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943): A young woman (Kim Hunter) leaves school to investigate the disappearance of her beautiful and mysterious older sister (Jean Brooks). She finds out some interesting facts, one, her sister was married and two, she was part of a satanic set. The husband (Hugh Beaumont), a poet (Erford Gage) and a psychiatrist (Tom Conway) aid her search for the truth about her sister. Produced by horror icon Val Lewton. Dir. Mark Robson
6:45 AM
CAT PEOPLE (1942): Produced by the legendary Val Lewton, this atmospheric and heartbreaking horror film tells the tale of Irina (Simone Simon), a beautiful and charming Serbian emigree who meets and marries all-American architect Oliver (Kent Smith). She is reluctant to consummate their marriage, and he turns to his friend and coworker Alice (Jane Rudolph) with tragic and frightening results. Producer Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur styles merge to produce one of the greatest films of the genre. Lensed by the noted noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
8:00 AM
ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945): Gen. Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff) takes leave from the 1912 Balkan War to visit a small island in Greece, where his wife is buried. While there, a plague breaks out—Pherides and a group of travelers are is forced to quarantine there. Soon, locals and foreigners alike succumb to the influence of Madame Kyra (Helene Thimig), who accuses a nurse (Ellen Drew) of being a vampire and the true cause of the recent deaths. The film's script was inspired by the painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits. It was written by producer Val Lewton’s frequent collaborator Ardel Wray. Dir. Mark Robson
9:15 AM
THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944): This is far from a traditional sequel as it focuses on the trauma resulting from the events of the first film. The survivors from Cat People, Oliver (Kent Smith) and Alice (Jane Randolph) are now married and have a child, Amy (Ann Carter). Oliver fears Amy’s vivid imagination, due to the events leading to the death of his first wife Irena (Simone Simon) whom he believes was driven mad by her belief in her homeland’s legends. When the lonely Amy wishes for a friend, Irena appears. Meanwhile, Amy is also befriended by an elderly neighbor whose daughter envies their connection to an unhealthy degree and who may well be dangerous. Dir. Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise
10:30 AM
THE BODY SNATCHER (1945): In this Val Lewton production, based on the real-life resurrection men Buke and Hare, Dr. Toddy MacFarlane (Henry Daniell) needs cadavers for his medical experiments, ultimately intended to treat a young disabled girl. He turns to the services of John Gray (Boris Karloff) and his assistant, Joseph (Bela Lugosi), to dig up recently buried corpses. Eventually, Gray crosses the line into murder. Dir. Robert Wise
12:00 PM
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943): Producer Val Lewton’s take on Jane Eyre focuses on naïve nurse Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) who is brought to the Caribbean by plantation owner Paul Holland (Tom Conway) to tend to his catatonic wife (Christine Gordon). His alcoholic brother (James Ellison) blames Paul for his wife’s condition. In one of the most uncomfortable scenes in cinematic history, a Calypso singer (Sir Lancelot) reveals an embarrassing family secret. Betsy is determined to cure her charge and comes to believe that she is a zombie. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Tuesday, April 8, 3:15 PM – Wednesday, April 9, 2:15 AM
3:15 PM
THE GHOST SHIP (1943): In this dark thriller, a young merchant marine officer (Russell Wade) begins to suspect that his ship's captain (Richard Dix) is mentally unbalanced when crewman Louie (Lawrence Tierney) dies in a horrible accident after challenging the captain’s authority. However, as more mysterious deaths occur, his shipmates are convinced that the ship is haunted. Dir. Mark Robson
5:00 PM
THE KILLING (1956): The best laid plans… Ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) masterminds a racetrack heist. Instead of securing the two million dollar take, his gang’s emotional entanglements bring disaster. In a quintessential piece of noir casting, Marie Windsor plays the treacherous wife of Elisha Cook, Jr. Dir. Stanley Kubrick
6:45 PM
TENSION (1950): A cuckolded husband (Richard Basehart) plans the perfect murder in order to kill his wife's lover. Then he finds true love with an understanding neighbor (Cyd Charisse) and decides against implementing his plot. Unfortunately, he becomes the prime suspect when somebody else kills his previously intended victim. Audrey Totter shines as his devious mate. Dir. John Berry
8:30 PM
JOHNNY O'CLOCK (1947): Underground casino owner Johnny (Dick Powell) receives an expensive watch from her former flame Nellie who’s now married to his partner. He gives the watch to hatcheck girl Harriet (Nina Foch) to return for him. Harriet is later found dead, an apparent suicide. Her sister (Evelyn Keyes) comes to town, insistent that Harriet didn’t commit suicide. She and Johnny fall for each other buy Johnny’s past threatens their future. Dir. Robert Rossen
10:30 PM
THEY WON’T BELIEVE ME (1947): Robert Young is brilliantly cast against type as a married Lothario whose sexual antics lead to tragedy. Director Irving Pichel elicits superb, nuanced performances from Susan Hayward (his latest lover), Jane Greer (his former lover) and Rita Johnson (his beleaguered wife), all full-blooded characters in Jonathan Latimer’s sharp-edged screenplay. Produced by Hitchcock protégé Joan Harrison. Dir. Irving Pichel
12:15 AM
THE OUTFIT (1973): In this neo-noir, when Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall) is released from prison, he goes on the offensive against The Outfit for murdering his brother while he was inside. They have already put a hit out on him because the bank he and his brother robbed was owned by them. His old partner Cody (Joe Don Baker). Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake). Dir. John Flyn
Friday, April 11, 6:00 AM
FOG OVER FRISCO (1934): Heiress Val Bradford (Margaret Lindsay) investigates the disappearance of her reckless sister Arlene (Bette Davis) who has been playing around in the San Francisco underworld, along with her ineffectual fiancé (Lyle Talbot), In the process, Val joins up with reporter Tony Sterling (Donald Woods) and press photographer Izzy Wright (Hugh Herbert). Dir. William Dieterle
Friday, April 11, 1:15 PM –Saturday, April 12, 5:00 AM
1:15 PM
THE THIN MAN (1934): Dashiell Hammett’s urbane but fun-loving sleuths Nick and Nora Charles, along with their pup Asta, investigate the disappearance of an inventor in this classic blend of laughs and suspense. Shot in just two weeks by director Woody "One-Shot'' Van Dyke and cinematographer James Wong Howe, this gem set the gold standard for the sophisticated comedy—inspiring five sequels as well as countless inferior imitations. Van Dyke previously directed Myrna Loy and William Powell in Manhattan Melodrama and spotted the terrific chemistry of their off-screen banter between takes. He insisted on casting the pair as Hammett’s hard-drinking super-couple and the glamorous pair became one of the movies' great romantic teams. Shot by the legendary cinematographer James Wong Howe. The film garnered four Oscar nominations, Best Picture, Best actor for Powell, Best Director, and Best Writing, Adaptation for Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Dir. Woody Van Dyke
3:00 PM
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936): In this delightful follow up to The Thin Man, Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) return to their home in San Francisco determined to rest up from their previous New York adventures, but Nora’s snooty family unintentionally embroils them in a murder mystery. Joseph Calleia, Sam Levene, George Zucco and a young Jimmy Stewart add to the fun. Writers Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett received a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar nomination. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke
5:00 PM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941): How do I love this movie, let me count the ways… In arguably the first, and greatest, film noir, hard-boiled detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets caught up in the deadly search for a priceless statue. Along the way he tangles with a murderous liar (Mary Astor), a foppish thug (Peter Lorre) and an obese mastermind (Sydney Greenstreet). Director John Huston brilliantly adapted it from the Dashiell Hammett novel and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay. The film also garnered nominations for Best Picture and for Sydney Greenstreet, in his film debut, Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Dir. John Huston
6:45 PM
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944): The film that graduated Dick Powell from romantic musical lead to noir tough guy. Raymond Chandler’s detective and knight errant, Philip Marlowe's (Powell) search for a singer name Velma, leads him through a tangled web of blackmail and murder. Along the way, he finds himself embroiled with a wealthy man’s unscrupulous gold-digging wife (Claire Trevor) and the step-daughter that despises her (Anne Shirley). Mike Mazurki gives a standout performance as the mentally challenged and extremely physically powerful ex-con that hires Marlowe to find Velma. “Cute as pants.” Dir. Edward Dmytryk
8:45 PM
MY GUN IS QUICK (1957): Private detective Mike Hammer (Robert Bray) takes it on himself to investigate the hit and run of a woman (Jan Chaney) he met briefly and defend from a violent thug. He suspects murder and his investigation finds him taking on a gang of jewel thieves and a beautiful widow (Whitney Blake). Dir. George A. White
10:30 PM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946): Drifter Frank (John Garfield) takes a job with roadside diner owner Nick Smith (Ceil Kellaway). Frank begins a torrid affair with Nick’s younger and extremely sexy wife (Lana Turner). Betrayal, murder, perversion of the law, and divine justice follow. Based on the novel by James M. Cain. Dir. Tay Garnett
12:30 AM
HARPER (1966): In this neo-noir, soon to be divorced private eye (Paul Newman) sets out to find the missing millionaire husband for his crippled wife (Lauren Bacall). The trail leads to a religious cult and a kidnapping plot. His investigation also leads him to Shelley Winters as a faded starlet. Janet Leigh plays his estranged wife whom Harper still loves. Dir. Jack Smight
2:45 AM
THE GETAWAY (1972): In this first big screen adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel, a husband (Steve McQueen) and wife (Ali McGraw) meet a series of misadventures after a bank heist and the wife’s shooting of the mastermind of the robbery who double crossed them. Stars McQueen and McGraw fell in love during the shooting of the film. Walter Hill penned the screenplay. Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Saturday, April 12, 5:00 PM
GOD’S LITTLE ACRE (1958): Farmer Ty Ty Walden (Robert Ryan) lets his family fall apart while he hunts for his grandfather's buried gold. Said family comprises daughter Darlin' Jill (Fay Spain); son Buck (Jack Lord), who suspects his wife Griselda (Tina Louise) is cheating with his brother-in-law Will (Aldo Ray), who is married to Ty Ty's daughter, Rosamund (Helen Westcott) ; unmarried son Shaw (Vic Morrow); and his emotionally and geographically estranged son Jim (Lance Fuller), who has moved away. My head hurts. Elmer Bernstein composed the score. Dir. Anthony Mann
Saturday, April 12, 9:15 PM & Sunday, April 13, 7:00 AM
THE STEEL TRAP (1952): Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten), an assistant manager of a bank, decides to steal a million from his employers on a Friday, figuring that he can escape to Brazil over the weekend to start a new life with no one the wiser until Monday. He takes his unsuspecting wife (Teresa Wright) with him. When she discovers the theft during what she believes to be a vacation, she tries to persuade him to return the money to the bank before it’s too late. Dir. Andrew Stone
Sunday, April 13, 7:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967): In a small Mississippi town, racist Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) mistakenly accuses African American Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) of the recent murder of a prominent Northern industrialist. When Gillespie discovers that Tibbs is a Homicide detective from Philadelphia, he enlists his help to solve the murder. This groundbreaking neo-noir won five Oscars, including Best Picture. Dir. Norman Jewison
Monday, April 14, 5:00 AM
THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947): A shell-shocked coast-guardsman (Robert Ryan) falls for a married woman (Joan Bennett) trapped in a loveless marriage to a renowned artist that she accidentally blinded during a drunken fight. He begins to suspect that her husband (Charles Bickford) might be able to see. Dir. Jean Renoir
Thursday, April 15, 3:15 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947): In this quintessential film noir, small town gas station owner Jeff Bailey’s (Robert Mitchum) past catches up with him when a stranger passing through town recognizes him. He tells his girlfriend Ann Miller (Virginia Huston) about his previous via flashback, of course. Jeff was a private eye falls for the gangster’s moll (Jane Greer) that he’s supposed to find for her lover Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). She’s allegedly stolen $40,000 from Whit and he wants her and the dough back. As in all good noirs, nothing is really as it seems. Watch for future noir siren Rhonda Fleming as a duplicitous secretary. Based on Geoffrey Homes’ excellent pulp novel Build My Gallows High and shot by legendary cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Thursday, April 15, 10:30 PM & Monday, April 21, 3:15 PM
BADLANDS (1973): After a charismatic James Dean wannabe (Martin Sheen) kills her dad, a baton-twirling teen (Sissy Spacek) decides to join him on a shooting spree through Montana's Badlands. It’s loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate killings of the 1950's which also inspired Bruce Springsteen’s album Nebraska and the key back story in Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners (1996). Dir. Terrence Malick
Thursday, April 17, 6:00 AM
INVISIBLE STRIPES (1940): Clifford Taylor (George Raft) is paroled from Sing Sing but is unable to shed the “invisible stripes” that cling to him as he tries to go straight. His fiancé dumps him, he’s wrongly accused of a crime at work, his dopey brother threatens to break bad, and his old prison chum (Humphrey Bogart) gets out and offers him a life of lucrative crime. Will Taylor be able to keep on the straight and narrow? Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Saturday, April 19, 3:15 PM
GUN CRAZY (1949): In this justly legendary noir, a gun obsessed reform school graduate (John Dall) meets the girl of his dreams, a circus sharpshooter (Peggy Cummins). They get married in a fever, but she gets fed up living without the finer things of life. The two go on a crime spree, but her blood lust had fatal consequences. Eddie Muller called it “the most audacious work of “outlaw cinema” made during the classic Hollywood era.” He also wrote an entire book about it. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Saturday, April 19, 9:00 PM & Sunday, April 20, 7:00 AM
THE SET-UP (1949): An aging boxer (Robert Ryan) defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight, believing that he can still be a champ. Audrey Totter plays his devoted wife who begs him to retire from boxing before he’s destroyed. Dir. Robert Wise
Sunday, April 20, 12:45 AM
THE WRONG MAN (1956): In this gritty documentary style noir, victims of a robbery misidentify a musician (Henry Fonda) for the culprit, destroying the lives of him and his wife (Vera Miles). This film was based on the true story of Manny Ballestro and used extensive locations shooting in New York City. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Monday, April 21, 3:454 AM – 11:30 AM
6:45 AM
OBSESSION a.k.a. THE HIDDEN ROOM (1949): In this Brit noir, directed by the recently blacklisted noir auteur Edward Dmytryk, cuckolded psychiatrist Dr. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) goes the extra mile to punish his cheating spouse (Sally Gray). He abducts his wife’s lover (Phil Brown) planning to eventually treat him to an acid bath. Scotland Yard Superintendent Finsbury (Naunton Wayne) and his wife’s dog throw a spanner in the works. Adapted by Alec Coppel from his suspense play A Man About a Dog. Dir. Edward Dmytryk
8:30 AM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946): Drifter Frank (John Garfield) takes a job with roadside diner owner Nick Smith (Ceil Kellaway). Frank begins a torrid affair with Nick’s younger and extremely sexy wife (Lana Turner). Betrayal, murder, perversion of the law, and divine justice follow. Based on the novel by James M. Cain. Dir. Tay Garnett
10:30 AM
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (1970): Con man Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) who seduces women steals their money and then abandons them meets his match when he tries his routine on Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler). She proves a master of manipulation and soon exerts an intense emotional control over him. She poses as his sister as he marries and defrauds a series of women; the pair eventually begins murdering their victims. Seems farfetched? The story is based on a real couple, "The Lonely Hearts Killers", who operated in the 40s and were even more ruthless in real life. Dir. Leonard Kastle
12:30 PM
SÉANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964): In this extremely downbeat, late-era Brit noir, noted stage actress Kim Stanley gives a tour de force performance as a medium kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime. Richard Attenborough provides an equally impressive counterpoint as the psychic’s weak-willed husband and accomplice. Based on a novel by Mark McShane, imaginatively and impressively adapted a second time by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Séance in 2000. Score by the legendary John Barry. Dir. Bryan Forbes
Wednesday, April 23, 5:15 AM
THE STRIP (1951): Veteran and drummer Stanley Maxton (Mickey Rooney) moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club but becomes entangled with a racketeer (James Craig) and a nightclub dancer with ambitions for Hollywood (Sally Forrest) and ends up accused of murder. The film features Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra as well as Monica Lewis and Vic Damone as themselves. Much of the picture was shot on location in and around the Sunset Strip. Interiors were shot at popular nightclubs Mocambo and Ciro's and at restaurants Little Hungary and Dir. László Kardos
Wednesday, April 23, 9:45 PM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946): In Howard Hawks’ clever and sophisticated adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel, private eye Philip Marlowe’s (Humphrey Bogart) investigates the involvement of an opium addled (and nymphomaniacal) society girl (Martha Vickers) in the murder of a pornographer. He also must determine if her sister (Lauren Bacall) is helping or hindering him. Dir. Howard Hawks
Saturday, April 26, 1:15 PM
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950): A hoodlum and ex-con (Sterling Hayden) hopes for one last big score that will enable him to go home to his farm in Kentucky. He falls in with a gang of small-time crooks plotting an elaborate jewel heist. Of course, you can never go home again. A young Marilyn Monroe plays a small but juicy part. The film was nominated for four Oscars including a Best Supporting Actor nod for Sam Jaffe as the mastermind undone by his passion for beautiful girls. Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. Dir. John Huston
Saturday, April 26, 5:00 PM – 9:15 PM
5:00 PM
HARPER (1966): In this neo-noir, soon to be divorced private eye (Paul Newman) sets out to find the missing millionaire husband for his crippled wife (Lauren Bacall). The trail leads to a religious cult and a kidnapping plot. His investigation also leads him to Shelley Winters as a faded starlet. Janet Leigh plays his estranged wife whom Harper still loves. Dir. Jack Smight
7:15 PM
THE DROWNING POOL (1975): In this neo-noir, private dick Lew Harper (Paul Newman) is in the Louisiana bayou working on a blackmail case involving the daughter (Melanie Griffith) of his old flame, Iris Devereau (Joanne Woodward). As he tries to solve the case, he becomes entangled in a power struggle between Iris and a local oil tycoon. Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Saturday, April 26, 9:00 PM & Sunday, April 27, 7:00 AM
THE PROWLER (1951): Joseph Losey’s greatest American film, from a script by legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is resurrected in all its bleak splendor in this 35mm restoration by UCLA Film & Television Archive, the first film ever rescued by the Film Noir Foundation. Materialistic cop Webb Garwood (Heflin) stalks a lonely, affluent Los Angeles housewife (Evelyn Keyes) and decides to win her love in the time-honored noir tradition: by knocking off her husband. Intense performances by the two leads drive this Cain-style tale of adultery, which was audacious and disturbing for its time. Dir. Joseph Losey
Wednesday, April 30, 4:30 AM
COUNT THE HOURS (1953) The midnight murder of a rancher and his wife leaves circumstantial evidence pointing the finger of guilt toward a married couple, George Braden (John Craven) and his wife Ellen (Teresa Wright). Defense attorney Doug Madison (Macdonald Carey) races against time to save the life of George after losing his court case. Dir. Don Siegel
Wednesday, April 30, 7:30 AM
MADELEINE (1950): Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd), a beautiful Glasgow socialite stood trial in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier who had attempted to blackmail her into marriage. Her trial was much publicized in the newspapers of the day and was labeled "the trial of the century." Dir. David Lean
Wednesday, April 30, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
1:30 PM
I CONFESS (1953): In Quebec, a priest (Montgomery Clift) hears the confession of a murderer and then finds himself accused of the crime. He can’t break the sanctity of the confessional and must find another way to clear himself. To complicate matters his ex-sweetheart (Anne Baxter), who still loves him, was being blackmailed by the victim. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
3:30 PM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956): At the behest of his future father-in law, newspaper editor Austin Spenser, Tom Garret (Dana Andrews)—a novelist and opponent of capital punishment—frames himself for the murder of a stripper to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence. The pair callously decides against taking Garret’s fiancée (Joan Fontaine) into their confidence. Dir. Fritz Lang
Johny Cash stars in Five Minutes To Live on April 1
Eddie Muller presents The Narrow Margin on the April 6-7 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Rachel Ward in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid on April 6
Jean Brooks in The Seventh Victim on April 8
Boris Karloff stars in Isale of the Dead on April 8
The Curse of the Cat People screens April 8
Boris Karloff in Val Lewton's The Body Snatcher on April 8
Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie on April 8
Vince Edwards and Marie Windsor in The Killing on April 8
Audrey Totter and Barry Sullivan in Tension on April 8
Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, and Karen Black in The Outfit on April 9
The Thin Man screens April 13
Nick & Nora return for After the Thin Man on April 13
Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon on April 13
Mickey Spillane's My Gun Is Quick on April 13
Paul Newman is Harper screening April 14
God's Little Acre on April 12
Eddie Muller presents The Steel Trap on the April 12-13 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Joan Bennett, Jean Renoir and Robert Ryan on the set of The Woman on the Beach screening April 14
Top-noir classic Out of the Past on April 15
George Raft stars in Invisible Stripes on April 17
Eddie Muller presents The Set-up on the April 19-20 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Sally Gray in Obsession on April 21
Tony Bianco in The Honeymoon Killers on April 21
Brit-noir Seance on a Wet Afternoon on April 21
Louis Armstrong in The Strip screening April 23
A captivated Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle on April 23
Paul Newman returns as Harper in The Drowning Pool on April 26
Eddie Muller presents The Prowler on the April 26-27 edition of NOIR ALLEY
Macdonald Carey stars in Count the Hours on April 30
Montgomery Cliff and Anne Baxter in Hitchcock's I Confess on April 30
Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt on April 30