Jacqueline White

On a train bound from Chicago to Los Angeles, hard-boiled detective Walter Brown must protect the widow of a gangster who's slated to testify before a grand jury. Brown's (Charles McCraw) partner was murdered while guarding the ill-tempered Mrs. Neall (Marie Windsor), and the friction between the detective and his charge grows in the confined space. Now, the mob will stop at nothing to kill Mrs...

After gunning down a fugitive for looting the company payroll, an oilman finds he may have killed the wrong man and sets out in search of the truth.

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.

Sophisticated socialite Cathy goes slumming post-symphony soiree and encounters brilliant, embittered blind pianist Dan (Dana Andrews) tickling the keys in a back-alley Jazz joint. Dan's haunting, ethereal music enraptures Cathy, so much so that she hatches a desperate scheme to pull Dan out of the long dark night of his soul. She pretends to be blind and destitute in order get past his defenses, and secretly sponsors a music composition contest to get him to accept her charity. As the deception deepens to desire and then love, can their romance survive the lies and bitterness that built it? Stage and screen master craftsman John Cromwell directs accompanied by the superb musicianship of Hoagy Carmichael, the New York Philharmonic, and Artur Rubinstein. Ethel Barrymore co-stars.