Never obvious or predictable, Stray Dog is an intriguing blend of film noir traditions and straight ahead police action drama that follows the exploits of rookie detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune), ...

Turner Classic Movies Celebrates Actor George Raft Tuesdays in January 2025 Beginning at 8pm ET all month long. The ...

Fans and collectors sought to connect with the hard-boiled detective writer’s vision of Los Angeles in a recent auction of his personal items, including never-before-published writings.

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” — Dean Martin (1949) Dean Martin and Marilyn Maxwell ... was first introduced in the 1944 classic film Meet Me in St. Louis. Garland’s emotional delivery ...

It was originally written by David Raskin as the theme to the 1944 film noir Laura starring Gene Tierney ... recorded this next song back in 1949, and then re-recorded it here in 1961 with ...

Ben Webster was considered one of the "big three" of swing tenors along with Coleman Hawkins (his main influence) and Lester Young. He had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own ...

The undisputed star director of French noir is Jean-Pierre Melville. The writer and director helmed some of cinema's coolest ...

Closer revisits the most vital decade of moviemaking in America. In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a ...

I had to throw photographic convention out the window to capture my convincing film noir portrait, here’s how I did ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.