Born from post-war paranoia and hardboiled crime stories, directors like John Huston, Sam Fuller, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles shaped the genre, using shadows, smoke, and sharp dialogue to show us ...

If there’s one thing that Dead Reckoning proves, it’s that some guys can’t stay out of trouble no matter how hard they try. In the 1947 film, Humphrey Bogart plays Rip Murdock, a tough ex ...