Bring Darkness to light : New Film Noir Documentary that includes clips from noir classics and little-known gems. What is the difference between crime stories and noir? What was the first noir movie? The answers are intriguing. Plus 5 "Crime Doesn't Pay" shorts Forbidden Passage A Gun in the Hand The Luckiest Guy in the World Women in Hiding You, the People Border Incident : Border Incident : US Agent Jack Bearnes lies in an open field, shot and beaten. A giant harrowing machine suddenly roars to life, its blades biting into the earth. Terrified, Bearnes tries to crawl away. But the machine crawls faster. As searing as a shot of tequila down a dust-parched throat, this steely thriller stars Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy as agents from each side of the Mexico-California border. Their job: catch the thieves, murderers and moneymen who prey on illegal aliens desperate to make a few Americano dollars sweating as farm laborers. Anthony, Mann (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur) directs, turning his lens to the beauty and the terror of stark desert wastelands. Blending classic film noir with a surprisingly contemporary plot, Border Incident is a relentless, cutting-edge gem of the genre. The Racket : Mick Scanlon (Robert Ryan) is an old-fashioned kind of gangster.
I if someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg
(Robert Mitchum) is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they're both living in a corrupt new world of smooth operators on both
Sides of the law, efficient green-eyeshade types who run a crime ring like a corporation. They won't mind if Scanlon and McQuigg square off...if they bring each other down.Ryan and Mitchum, who co-starred in the groundbreaking Crossfire, reteam for another tense, character-driven, twist-laden film noir. Who's got your back? Who'll stab you in the back? You'll be surprised.
