After the subsequent murder of a scared running girl he picked up on the highway Mickey Spillane's anti-hero, dodgy private eye Mike Hammer, smells money and follows the threads on a seedy trip through the LA underworld. find out more...

A dark, intriguing thriller. The enigmatic Laura becomes an object of obsession to a hard-bitten journalist and is found dead shortly before her wedding. As the mystery deepens with every twist and turn, the detective on the case also falls under the spell of the tragic beauty. Classic film noir. find out more...

Returning home at the end of the war Johnny Morrison expects a warm welcome from his wife, but discovers that she's been unfaithful to him with dapper Eddie Harwood, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. After a heated and violent argument he storms out of their house and when, later the same night, she's murdered Johnny becomes the number one suspect. To clear himself, and unexpectedly aided and comforted by the estranged wife of the club's proprietor, he must find the real culprit. Will John find out more...

Burt Lancaster makes his debut, in this adaptation of a short story by Ernest Hemingway, as Swede, a washed-up boxer who finds himself manipulated and double crossed thanks to the charms of femme fatale Ava Gardner. A definitively noir gangster film about an unusual contract killing that stands out thanks to Lancaster's performance as the lovesick palooka taken for a ride.

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