Postcards From Shadowland’s Big Fat No.10 Alexandra Schmidt in ‘Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness’ (1929) Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s brilliant satire- All About Eve (1950) starring the inimitable Bette Davis as Margo Channing and Ann Baxter as the cunning Eve Harrington. Director Lewis Milestone’s All’s Quiet on the Western Front-(1930) starring Lew Ayres Otto Preminger’s riveting court room noir Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece about the great Russian naval mutiny. Jule’s Dassin’s brutal noir masterpiece Brute Force (1947) Richard Brooks adaptation of Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca 1940 Orson Welles’ film classic Touch of Evil (1958) William Dieterle’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 Henry Hathaway’s disturbing noir classic Kiss of Death 1947 Otto Preminger’s quintessential noir Laura (1944) Blake Edwards Experiment in Terror 1960 Bert I. Gordon’s Earth Vs The Spider 1958 Lambert Hillyer’s understated yet powerfully erotic horror classic Dracula’s Daughter 1936 Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s taut and thought provoking social noir No Way Out 1950 Mervyn LeRoy’s gangster odyssey Little Caesar 1931 Robert Wise’s Science Fiction masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Reginald Beck and Anthony Bushell’s suspenseful The Long Dark Hall 1951 Herbert Brenon’s beautiful Laugh, Clown, Laugh 1928 Fritz Lang’s notorious psychological thriller M (1931) Otto Preminger’s noir masterpiece about addiction The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Nathan Juran’s iconic 50s campy sci-fi romp Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) Anthony Mann’s noir classic Raw Deal (1948) Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s surreal and transcendent Mother Joan of the Angels 1961 Mervyn LeRoy’s naughty tale about a child psychopath. The Bad Seed (1956) Samuel Fuller’s irreverent noir gem The Naked Kiss (1964) Carol Reed’s intense noir thriller Odd Man Out (1947) Billy Wilder’s iconic film noir masterwork of grand proportions Sunset Blvd (1950) Jean Cocteau’s stunning Orpheus (1950) Orphée Jacques Tourneur’s hauntingly mesmerizing noir Out of the Past (1947) Joseph E. Lewis Gun Crazy or Deadly is the Female (1950) George Steven’s sadness and joyful Penny Serenade (1941) James Whale’s campy take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1931 Edgar G. Ulmer’s sadistic and transgressive journey into horror The Black Cat 1934 Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful vision of quiet uncanny horror Vampyr (1932) Joseph Losey’s titillating noir The Prowler ((1951) Henri-Georges Clouzot’s brilliantly chilling Les-Diaboliques-1955 Bryan Forbes’ compelling suspense thriller Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) Buster Keaton’s fantastic Seven Chances (1925) Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson’s SCARFACE (1932) William Beaudine’s haunting Sparrows (1926) James Whales even campier and finest work The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Elia Kazan’s volatile theme of desolation and passion based on Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 some more divine SUNSET BOULEVARD 1950 Samuel Fuller’s edgy Shock Corridor (1963) Jame’s Whale’s The Old Dark House 1932 Nicholas Ray’s incredibly beautiful film noir journey They Live By Night (1948) Robert Wise’s uncompromising ghost story adapted from Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting (1963) Raoul Walsh’s iconic crime thriller White Heat (1949)
