Top Five Film Noir Double Features
With Noir City coming up, I thought I present a thread for you all to pick your top five double features.
Here's the catch, both films have to either share a similar theme/story, the same writer and/or director, actor(s), or same location it was filmed. You can add a title to the double feature. Let's begin.
1. The Killers / Criss Cross
2. The Underworld Story / Ace in the Hole
3. Crime Wave / The Killing
4. The Blue Dahlia / This Gun For Hire
5. The Dark Corner / The Street With No Name
Suddenly / The Manchurian Candidate
From the UK, how about:
1.Brighton Rock / The Third Man, both based on Graham Greene novels
2.Man Bait / Stolen Face, both directed by Terence Fisher and both with beautiful blondes (Diana Dors, Lizabeth Scott)
3.They Made Me a Fugitive / Green for Danger, both starring Trevor Howard
4. Bad Blonde / Noose, both featuring tragic American 'imports' Barbara Payton and Carole Landis and a bit part for British character actor John Slater
5. Beat Girl / The Hands of Orlac, both late entries to the golden age of noir, being about 1960, both directed by French pulp director Edmond Greville.
Beat Girl also starred UK pop star, Adam Faith:
Body and Soul/Champion - Corrupted boxer theme
I Wake Up Screaming | In a Lonely Place (both show business murder stories, but mainly because it looks fantastic on a marquee).
Sunset Blvd. / Mulholland Dr.
Her Kind of Man / His Kind of Woman
THE UNSUSPECTED (47)/THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE (47)
Michael North/Ted North: identical twins or (WTF?) the same guy with different names?
PRC Plagiarism: DOUBLE INDEMNITY (44)/APOLOGY FOR MURDER (45).
Marian Carr Time Warp Debuts: WORLD FOR RANSOM (54)/SAN QUENTIN (46).
"Kitten" Knew Best: THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (47)/THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF (51).
It's Contagious: PANIC IN THE STREETS/THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK (both 50).
All-day marathon of Johnnies: ALLEGRO (49); ANGEL (45); COOL (63); EAGER (41); O'CLOCK (47); STOOL PIGEON (49).
Out of the Past / The Big Steal
These might be interesting double features.
T - Men / Raw Deal
Street with No Name / House of Bamboo - both based on the same screenplay.
High Sierra / Colorado Territory - Raoul Walsh's double - take on the same basic script.
Road House / Private Hell 36 - Ida Lupino plays a chanteuse named Lily in both films.
"It was the way she said it, you know: Real husky like the lead dog in a snow - job, but I wasn't about to be left out in the cold."
-Dick Private, Private Dick - Roller Maidens from Outer Space
The Woman In The Window(1944)/Scarlet Street(1945)-same director, cast, similar storyline-saw Scarlet Street at Noir City DC in October- what a treat to see that on the big screen!
1) Drunken Angel / Stray Dog
2) M / The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
3) Odd Man Out / The Third Man
4) The Big Heat / Point Blank
5) Tokyo Drifter / Branded to Kill
Last edited by Hard-Boiled-Rick; 01-06-2011 at 10:39 PM.
The Narrow Margin/The Threat
The Third Man / Night & the City
Brute Force / Caged
The Dark Mirror / Among the Living
The Prowler / Too Late for Tears
Shadow of a Doubt / The Seventh Victim
Force of Evil / Ruthless
The Amazing Mr. X / Nightmare Alley
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