Lana Turner as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) from James M. Cain’s novel (which got filmed again under the same title in 1981 with Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson); Claire Trevor as Velma in Murder, My Sweet (1944) from Raymond Chandler’s novel „Farewell, My Lovely”; and Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins in The Killers (1946).I tried to choose characters who are not necessarily typical, rather special in one way or other. Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. The film was noted for cinematographer Rudolph Mate's lush photography, costume designer Jean Louis' wardrobe for Hayworth (particularly for the dance numbers), and choreographer Jack Cole's staging of "Put the Blame on Mame" and "Amado Mio", sung by Anita Ellis. A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Mildred Pierce is a 1945 Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir tale about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter. They are tied together, alive and dead, by a dark secret and that eventually grows upon them.The story about private eye Jeff (Robert Mitchum) and seem-to-be-innocent femme fatale Kathie (Jane Greer) is told through many flashbacks. The film was produced by Jack Bernhard and Bernard Brandt as a Jack Bernhard Production, with a screenplay by Ned Young, based on an original story by Stanley Rubin. It was directed by Tay Garnett, with a score written by George Bassman and Erich Zeisl (the latter uncredited). It was directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Buddy Adler from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm based on the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie.The film stars Jane Russell and Richard Egan with Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, and Michael Pate. Or a subgenre of crime movies, a movement or a visual style – this is still an ongoing debate among film critics and film theorists. It is about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city after the brutal murder of his beloved wife. It stars Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey. The film was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor, based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. Anton Karas wrote the score, which used only the zither; its title cut topped the international music charts in 1950. The screenplay was written by Robert Rossen and Robert Riskin, who was not credited, and was directed by Lewis Milestone. innocent girl lost and deceived herself. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene, later becoming his novella of the same name. Tierney received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress in a Leading Role for this film. A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1946 drama-film noir based on the 1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice novel by James M. Cain. Why is Inspector Ed Cornell trying to railroad Frankie Christopher for the murder of model Vicky Lynn?I Wake Up Screaming (1941) is a black-and-white suspense film starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, and Carole Landis. The film grossed $726,000 in the United States and a total of $226,000 overseas. She is a classical narcissist which of course make men want her even more, but ironically, places her even further away from them. The film also features Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, and Elisha Cook Jr. The drama features Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters and others Posted on February 19, 2016 February 19, 2016 by Fanni Somlyai. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. But as we know, Odysseus broke free eventually.Rarely happens that we get to see or know anything about the femme fatale’s childhood and the misery that turned her to be the person she is. The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's novel and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. It was directed by John Cromwell and written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. The film received mixed reviews upon initial release, but has garnered much acclaim since then and is now frequently ranked among the greatest films ever made, and often cited as a classic Hitchcock film and one of the defining works of his career. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.The Killing is a 1956 film noir produced by James B. Harris and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Also, there are similarities between her role and her own life as she also started her career as a dancer and there are hints about Gilda’s past life as being a dancer too.The main plot is simple: Gilda is married to a wealthy casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) for money but is in love with another man, the gambler turned casino manager Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford). Film noir, flourishing in America throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s, is one of the most disturbing of movie genres – is it, in the first place, a distinct genre at all? It is not her evilness or innocence after all which makes her the femme fatale; whether she does or does not intentionally want the hero to fall, she is inevitably such an influence on him which causes the male protagonist to abandon, even forget his original purpose and eventually causes both of their destruction and/or death. That’s one of the reasons why the story of Martha Ivers (played by Barbara Stanwyck) is so interesting.