Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream (55 page)

The Big Combo
. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis. Music by David Raksin. Allied Artists, 1955.

The Big Night
. Dir. Joseph Losey.* Scr. Hugo Butler,* Dalton Trumbo* [uncredited], and Joseph Losey. United Artists, 1951.

Black Angel
. Dir. Roy Neill. Universal, 1946.

The Blue Dahlia
. Dir. George Marshall. Scr. Raymond Chandler. Paramount, 1946.

The Blue Gardenia
. Dir. Fritz Lang. Story by Vera Caspary. Warner Bros., 1953.

Blues in the Night
. Dir. Anatole Litvak. Warner Bros., 1941.

Body and Soul
. Dir. Robert Rossen.* Scr. Abraham Polonsky.* Perf. John Garfield.* Enterprise/United Artists, 1947.

Brute Force
. Dir. Jules Dassin.* Prod. Mark Hellinger. Scr. Richard Brooks. Universal, 1947.

Caged
. Dir. John Cromwell. Scr. Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld. Perf. Eleanor Parker. Warner Bros, 1950.

Caught
. Dir. Max Ophuls. From the novel
Wild Calendar
, by Libbie Block. Enterprise/MGM, 1949.

Champion
. Dir. Mark Robson. United Artists, 1949.

The Chase
. Dir. Arthur Ripley. United Artists, 1946.

Cornered
. Dir. Edward Dmytryk.* Scr. John Paxton. Story by John Wexley.* Prod. Adrian Scott.* RKO, 1945.

Crack-Up
. Dir. Irving Reis. Scr. John Paxton, Ben Bengal,* and Ray Spencer. RKO, 1946.

Criss Cross
. Dir. Robert Siodmak. Scr. Daniel Fuchs. Universal, 1949.

The Crooked Way
. Dir. Robert Florey. United Artists, 1949.

Crossfire
. Dir. Edward Dmytryk.* Prod. Adrian Scott.* RKO, 1947.

“
Crossfire:
Hate Is like a Gun.” DVD featurette with
Crossfire
. Turner Entertainment, 2005. DVD.

The Damned Don’t Cry
. Dir. Vincent Sherman. Perf. Joan Crawford. Story by Gertrude Walker. Warner Bros., 1950.

Dark City
. Dir. William Dieterle. Scr. John Meredyth Lucas and Larry Marcus; adapted by Ketti Frings. Paramount, 1950.

The Dark Corner
. Dir. Henry Hathaway. Scr. Jay Dratler and Bernard Schoenfeld. 20th Century–Fox, 1946.

Dark Passage
. Dir. Delmer Daves. Perf. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Agnes Moorehead. Warner Bros., 1947.

The Dark Past
. Dir. Rudolph Maté. Perf. Lee J. Cobb and William Holden. Scr. Philip MacDonald, Michael Blankfort,* and Albert Duffy. Columbia, 1948.

Dark Waters
. Dir. André De Toth. Scr. Joan Harrison and Marian Cockrell. Benedict Bogeaus/United Artists, 1944.

Dead Reckoning
. Dir. John Cromwell. Perf. Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott. Columbia, 1947.

Desperate
. Dir. Anthony Mann. RKO, 1947.

Detour
. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer. Perf. Tom Neal and Ann Savage. PRC, 1945.

The Devil Thumbs a Ride
. Dir. Felix Feist. RKO, 1947.

D. O. A
. Dir. Rudolph Maté. United Artists, 1950.

Double Indemnity
. Dir. Billy Wilder. Paramount, 1944.

The File on Thelma Jordon
. Dir. Robert Siodmak. Scr. Ketti Frings. Paramount, 1950.

5 against the House
. Dir. Phil Karlson. Columbia, 1955.

Force of Evil
. Dir. Abraham Polonsky.* Perf. John Garfield* and Thomas Gomez. Enterprise/MGM, 1948.

From Here to Eternity
. Dir. Fred Zinnemann. Columbia, 1953.

Fury
. Dir. Fritz Lang. MGM, 1936.

The Gangster
. Dir. Gordon Wiles. Allied Artists, 1947.

Gilda
. Dir. Charles Vidor. Prod. Virginia Van Upp. Perf. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and George Macready. Columbia, 1946.

Gun Crazy
. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis. Scr. MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman, and Dalton Trumbo.* United Artists, 1949.

High Wall
. Dir. Curtis Bernhardt. Scr. Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole.* MGM, 1947.

The Hitch-Hiker
. Dir. Ida Lupino. Perf. Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, and William Talman. RKO, 1953.

Hollow Triumph
. Dir. Steve Sekely. Scr. Daniel Fuchs. Perf. Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett. Eagle-Lion, 1948.

I Wake Up Screaming
. Dir. Bruce Humberstone. Perf. Victor Mature, Betty Grable, and Laird Cregar. 20th Century–Fox, 1942.

I Walk Alone
. Dir. Byron Haskin. Paramount, 1948.

I Want to Live!
Dir. Robert Wise. United Artists, 1958.

“Jules Dassin Interview.”
Thieves’ Highway
. Criterion Collection, 2005. DVD.

Kansas City Confidential
. Dir. Phil Karlson. United Artists, 1952.

The Killers
. Dir. Robert Siodmak. Universal, 1946.

The Killing
. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. United Artists, 1956.

Kiss Me Deadly
. Dir. Robert Aldrich. Scr. A. I. Bezzerides. United Artists, 1955.

La chienne
. Dir. Jean Renoir. Braunberger-Richebé, 1931.

Laura
. Dir. Otto Preminger. Scr. Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt. Music by David Raksin. Perf. Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, and Dana Andrews. 20th Century–Fox, 1944.

Little Caesar
. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. First National, 1931.

The Maltese Falcon
. Dir. John Huston. Warner Bros., 1941.

The Man I Love
. Dir. Raoul Walsh. Perf. Ida Lupino. Scr. Catherine Turney. Warner Bros., 1947.

The Man with the Golden Arm
. Dir. Otto Preminger. United Artists, 1955.

The Men
. Dir. Fred Zinnemann. United Artists, 1950.

Mildred Pierce
. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Scr. Ranald MacDougall and Catherine Turney (uncredited). Perf. Joan Crawford. Warner Bros., 1945.

Murder, My Sweet
. Dir. Edward Dmytryk.* RKO, 1944.

My Name Is Julia Ross
. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis. Scr. Muriel Roy Bolton. Columbia, 1945.

The Naked City
. Dir. Jules Dassin.* Prod. Mark Hellinger. Scr. Albert Maltz* and Malvin Wald. Universal, 1948.

New York Confidential
. Dir. Russell Rouse. Warner Bros., 1955.

The Night Holds Terror
. Dir. Andrew Stone. Columbia, 1955.

Nightmare
. Dir. Maxwell Shane. United Artists, 1956.

Nightmare Alley
. Dir. Edmund Goulding. Perf. Tyrone Power. 20th Century–Fox, 1947.

Nocturne
. Dir. Edwin L. Marin. Prod. Joan Harrison. Perf. George Raft. RKO, 1946.

No Man of Her Own
. Dir. Mitchell Leisen. Scr. Sally Benson and Catherine Turney, from the novel
I Married a Dead Man
, by Cornell Woolrich. Paramount, 1950.

Notorious
. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. RKO, 1946.

Not Wanted
. Dir. Ida Lupino. Scr. Paul Jarrico* and Ida Lupino. Emerald/RKO, 1949.

Odds against Tomorrow
. Dir. Robert Wise. Scr. John O. Killens [Abraham Polonsky*]. United Artists, 1959.

Out of the Past
. Dir. Jacques Tourneur. Perf. Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. RKO, 1947.

Outrage
. Dir. Ida Lupino. Scr. Collier Young, Malvin Wald, and Ida Lupino. Filmakers/RKO, 1950.

Phantom Lady
. Dir. Robert Siodmak. Prod. Joan Harrison. Perf. Franchot Tone and Ella Raines. Universal, 1944.

Possessed
. Dir. Curtis Bernhardt. Perf. Joan Crawford. Scr. Silvia Richards* and Ranald MacDougall. Warner Bros., 1947.

The Postman Always Rings Twice
. Dir. Tay Garnett. Perf. John Garfield* and Lana Turner. MGM, 1946.

Private Hell 36
. Dir. Don Siegel. Scr. Ida Lupino and Collier Young. Filmakers, 1954.

The Prowler
. Dir. Joseph Losey.* Scr. Hugo Butler* and Dalton Trumbo.* Horizon/United Artists, 1951.

The Public Enemy
. Dir. William A. Wellman. Warner Bros., 1931.

Railroaded!
Dir. Anthony Mann. Scr. John C. Higgins. Story by Gertrude Walker. PRC, 1947.

Ride the Pink Horse
. Dir. Robert Montgomery. Prod. Joan Harrison. From the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. Universal, 1947.

Road House
. Dir. Jean Negulesco. Perf. Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Richard Widmark. 20th Century–Fox, 1948.

Scarface
. Dir. Howard Hawks. United Artists, 1932.

Scarlet Street
. Dir. Fritz Lang. Scr. Dudley Nichols. Perf. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea. Diana Productions/Universal, 1945.

The Set-Up
. Dir. Robert Wise. RKO, 1949.

Shockproof
. Dir. Douglas Sirk. Columbia, 1949.

Somewhere in the Night
. Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 20th Century–Fox, 1946.

Spellbound
. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Perf. Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Selznick, 1945.

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
. Dir. Robert Siodmak. Prod. Joan Harrison. Universal, 1945.

Strange Illusion
. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer. PRC, 1945.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
. Dir. Lewis Milestone. Scr. Robert Rossen.* Paramount, 1946.

Street of Chance
. Dir. Jack Hively. Paramount, 1942.

The Strip
. Dir. Leslie Kardos. Perf. Mickey Rooney. MGM, 1951.

Sweet Smell of Success
. Dir. Alexander Mackendrick. Perf. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, and Martin Milner. United Artists, 1957.

They Live by Night
. Dir. Nicholas Ray. Perf. Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, and Howard Da Silva.* RKO, 1948.

Thieves’ Highway
. Dir. Jules Dassin.* Scr. A. I. Bezzerides. 20th Century–Fox, 1949.

Touch of Evil
. Dir. Orson Welles. Universal-International, 1958.

Try and Get Me!
Dir. Cyril Endfield.* Scr. Jo Pagano. Robert Stillman Productions/United Artists, 1950.

The Two Mrs. Carrolls
. Dir. Peter Godfrey. Warner Bros., 1947.

The Underworld Story
. Dir. Cyril Endfield.* Perf. Dan Duryea. Scr. Craig Rice, Cyril Endfield and Henry Blankfort.* Filmcraft/United Artists, 1950.

Vicki
. Dir. Harry Horner. Perf. Jean Peters, Jeanne Crain, Elliott Reid, and Richard Boone. 20th Century–Fox, 1953.

Walk a Crooked Mile
. Dir. Gordon Douglas. Columbia, 1948.

White Heat
. Dir. Raoul Walsh. Perf. James Cagney and Edmond O’Brien. Warner Bros., 1949.

The Woman in the Window
. Dir. Fritz Lang. Perf. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea. International Pictures, 1944.

You Only Live Once
. Dir. Fritz Lang. Perf. Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney. United Artists, 1937.

The abbreviation MHLSC indicates Margaret Herrick Library Special Collections, Los Angeles
.

Abbott, Megan E.
The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Print.

“Abraham Polonsky.” Interview by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner. McGilligan and Buhle 481–94.

The Accused
script notes. Hal Wallis Papers. MHLSC.

Act of Violence
posters. Fred Zinnemann Papers. MHLSC.

“Adele Comandini.”
Internet Movie Database
. Web. Dec. 20, 2011.

Allcountries.org.
U.S. Census 2000
. “11. National Defense and Veterans Affairs.” Sec. 593, “Disabled Veterans Receiving Compensation.” Web. Dec. 26, 2011.

Als, Hilton. “This Woman’s Work.”
New Yorker
March 28, 2011: 108–11. Print.

Andersen, Thom. “Afterword.” Krutnik, Neale, Neve, and Stanfield 264–75.

———. “Red Hollywood.” Krutnik, Neale, Neve, and Stanfield 225–63.

Anderson, Edward.
Thieves Like Us
. 1937. Polito 214–377.

Arnau, Frank.
Three Thousand Years of Deception in Art and Antiques
. Trans. J. Maxwell Brownjohn. London: Cape, 1961. Print.

Arnheim, Rudolf. “On Duplication.” Dutton,
The Forger’s Art
232–45.

“Art of Europe.” Web. May 14, 2012.
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.

Babener, Liahna. “De-feminizing
Laura:
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It’s a Print! Detective Fiction from Page to Screen
. Ed. William Reynolds and Elizabeth A. Trembley. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green St. U Popular P, 1994. 83–102. Print.

Balkun, Mary McAleer.
American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006. Print.

Basinger, Jeanine.
A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930–1960
. London: Chatto and Windus, 1993. Print.

Bassler, Robert. Letter to Jason S. Joy. Feb. 24, 1949. TS. PCA file,
Thieves’ Highway
. MHLSC.

Belton, John.
American Cinema/American Culture
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Print.

Benson, Sally.
With This Ring [I Married a Dead Man]
. Jan. 24, 1949. TS.
No Man of Her Own
script files. MHLSC.

———.
With This Ring [I Married a Dead Man]
. Feb. 25, 1949. TS.
No Man of Her Own
script files. MHLSC.

Bernstein, Matthew. “A Tale of Three Cities: The Banning of
Scarlet Street
.”
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Beverly, William.
On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover’s America
. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2004. Print.

Biesen, Sheri Chinen.
Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. Print.

Billman, Larry.
Betty Grable: A Bio-bibliography
. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. Print.

Blackwelder, Julia Kirk.
Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900–1995
. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1997. Print.

Block, Libbie.
Wild Calendar
. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1947. Print.