Sam Levene

In New York City, ex-cop Max Thursday, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, exists in an alcoholic haze until his ex-wife appears with news of his son’s disappearance. So, Thursday stumbles through the city’s sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

A detective uncovers evidence of a malevolent alien messiah while investigating a series of senseless murders committed by random New Yorkers.

Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the murder of a priest, the subsequent arrest and trial of a jobless drifter, and the efforts of young state's attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to uncover the truth.

An influential Broadway columnist recruits a publicist to break up his daughter’s romance with a jazz guitarist in an ugly game of power and survival.

This gritty film noir made history as the first Hollywood film to confront antisemitism. Three of the era’s most celebrated Roberts—Young, Mitchum, and Ryan—star in the hard-hitting tale of a police detective and an army sergeant whose investigation into the murder of a Jewish veteran leads them to a psychotic soldier consumed by hatred and bigotry. The first B movie to be nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, CROSSFIRE also netted a best supporting actor nomination for Robert Ryan, whose breakthrough performance as the vicious killer established his edgy, tightly wound screen persona.