Cover Up (1949) #filmnoir mystery directed by Alfred E. Green starring Dennis O'Keefe, William Bendix, and Barbara Britton. O'Keefe also co-wrote the screenplay, credited as Jonathan Rix. The murder mystery takes place during the Christmas season. 📽️🎄

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) directed by Frank Capra. It is loosely based on the 1843 Dickens novella A Christmas Carol. Stars James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, and Gloria Grahame. It's now considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. 🎄 #filmnoir

🎁 Dearest #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ Friends, Here's my 2025 #Christmas Letterboxd list; It currently has links to over 140 films: “🎄🎅 Christmas 2025 🎅🎄” boxd.it/BvZRw @idletalk12.bsky.social @jauntworksstudio.bsky.social @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @gabsanders6.bsky.social @hollygolightly007.bsky.social 🎁

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes is a 1948 low-budget B #filmnoir directed by William Nigh, starring Don Castle and Elyse Knox. It was based on a novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich with a screenplay by fellow pulp writer Steve Fisher. 🔍📽️🎄

I love to watch #filmnoir The Night of the Hunter (1955) at Xmas. Directed by Charles Laughton with photography by Stanley Cortez and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish, this masterpiece weaves in the holidays with a tour de force by Gish. 🔍🎄

I, the Jury (1953) #filmnoir based on 'the novel I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane. Directed by Harry Essex, and released through United Artists. Notable for being the first film based on a Mike Hammer novel. Starring Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, and Peggie Castle. #decemnoir 🔍📽️🎄

Thank you @jauntworksstudio.bsky.social for hosting this #HolidayNoir for #FilmNoirClub! 🎄🗝️ Happy Holidays to all you birds, mugs, and dames!

📽️ BACKFIRE (1950) is #19 of 116 Film Noirs on my Film Noir funeral list: I have no idea why I made this list 😅 There are links to freely watch 13 films & 13 TV shows in the description box of my Letterboxd list: “⚰️☠️ Film Noir funerals ☠️⚰️” boxd.it/odPDc #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #FilmSky 🍿 📽️

Rain Noir 🌧️🤌🏻 #FilmNoirClub

📽️ Cute doggie! Added film #256 BACKFIRE (1950) To my Letterboxd list: “🐶 Film Noir Dogs 🐶” boxd.it/gXyxw #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #FilmSky 🍿 📽️

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It's not the holidays without Lawrence Tierney playing ruthless gunslinger John Dillinger in the "noirish", Dillinger (1945) also starring Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, and everyone's favorite #FilmNoir sidekick, Elisha Cook Jr. 🔍🎄

📣Calling all members of #WidmarkWednesday! 📽️ #FilmNoir #ClassicFilm #RichardWidmark

Set in 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys (2016) is a fun #neonoir action comedy directed by Shane Black. The film stars Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, with Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, and Kim Basinger appearing in supporting roles. #filmnoir 🔍🎄

Saw this gem on Noir Alley and now it's in my regular holiday noir rotation...Cash on Demand (1961) British #neonoir directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing and André Morell. #filmnoir 🔍📽️🎄

Weekend travel with Deanna Durbin in Lady on a Train (1945) 📽️ #filmnoir directed by Charles David. Based on a story by Leslie Charteris, the film is about a woman who witnesses a murder in a nearby building from her train window. 🎄

They Live by Night (1948) #filmnoir directed by Nicholas Ray in his debut and starring Cathy O'Donnell and Farley Granger. Although the film is considered the prototype for the "couple on the run" genre, the story was first depicted in Fritz Lang's '37 film You Only Live Once. 🎄 🔍

Beware, My Lovely (1952) #filmnoir directed by Harry Horner and starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan. Based on '50 play The Man by Mel Dinelli, also wrote the screenplay. Earlier in '52, Lupino and Ryan costarred in On Dangerous Ground, directed by Nicholas Ray. #decemnoir🔍📽️🎄

Christmas Holiday ('44) #filmnoir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. About a woman who marries a Southern aristocrat who inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags the woman into a life of misery. 🎄📽️

Larceny, Inc. (1942) #filmnoir. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, the film stars Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson, Anthony Quinn, and Edward Brophy. The film is based on the play The Night Before Christmas by Laura Perelman and S.J. Perelman. 📽️🎄

📣 Calling all members of #WidmarkWednesday! 📽️ #FilmNoir #ClassicFilm #RichardWidmark

Mr. Soft Touch (1949) #filmnoir directed by Gordon Douglas and Henry Levin and starring Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes. The film is also known as House of Settlement. 📽️🎄

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes is a 1948 low-budget B #filmnoir directed by William Nigh, starring Don Castle and Elyse Knox. It was based on a novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich with a screenplay by fellow pulp writer Steve Fisher. 🔍📽️🎄

Backfire (1950) #filmnoir directed by Vincent Sherman starring Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Viveca Lindfors, and Dane Clark. Written by Ben Roberts who would go on to write White Heat the following year, a film that also stars O'Brien and Mayo. #decemnoir 🔍📽️🎄

Mr. Arkadin (1955), known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French-Spanish-Swiss co-production #filmnoir, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid. Filming took place throughout Europe in 1954. 🎄📽️

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ('05) #neonoir comedy action film written and directed by Shane Black, and starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, and Corbin Bernsen. The script is partially based on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them ('41). #filmnoir🎄

🎅 #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ Watch Party Wed. 12/10 at 8:00 pm ET 🎅

No Man of Her Own (1950) #filmnoir directed by Mitchell Leisen and featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl, and Lyle Bettger. Its screenplay was adapted from Cornell Woolrich's '48 novel I Married a Dead Man. #Xmas 🎄 🔍

🚂 Dear Film Noir Club friends, we hope you can all join us next Wednesday, December 10 at 8:00 pm ET for our next watch party: ＬＡＤＹ ＯＮ Ａ ＴＲＡＩＮ （１９４５） #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #FilmSky 🍿 #LadyInATrain 🚂 #ChristmasNoir 🎄 🚂

Here for the #filmnoirclub live watch of Cover Up (1949) hosted by the great @idletalk12.bsky.social and staying for William Bendix! #HolidayNoir #FilmNoir #FilmSky

Holiday comedy #filmnoir? Give Dan Duryea as Arnold Waring a watch in Lady on a Train (1945) directed by Charles David, and also starring Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, and David Bruce. #Xmas 🔍🎄

#filmnoirclub @wahrhaftig.bsky.social @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @jauntworksstudio.bsky.social Another link to watch the film (commercial free) ok.ru/video/207400...

The Reckless Moment (1949) #filmnoir directed by Max Ophüls and released by Columbia Pictures with Burnett Guffey as cinematographer. It starred James Mason and Joan Bennett. The film is based on The Blank Wall ('47), a novel written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. #Xmas 🔍📽️🎄

Welcome to December, on my Xmas watch list: Blast of Silence (1961) #neonoir showed on NoirAlley, and it did not disappoint. I've been hooked since. The camera work is stellar with a French New Wave feel and gorgeous, modern shots of NYC as the backdrop, and the coolest contract killer around.🎄📽️

#Noirvember 30/December 1

Huge thanks to everyone who joined the 2025 #NoirvemberChallenge! You made this the best yet. I'm so grateful for the creativity, discussion, and #filmnoir picks everyone shared. This community is truly the best, and you know your #filmnoir! Keep watching and staying in touch, till next year...

Day 30 #NoirvemberChallenge Favorite #filmnoir ending? Cry Danger (1951). Top-notch writing, cast, and story. Dick Powell walks off into the lonely abyss of LA, a perfect noir ending that checks all the boxes of this genre we love. Restored by @noirfoundation.bsky.social in 2011.

Day 29 #NoirvemberChallenge favorite RKO #filmnoir? Too many, I cannot pick just one...so here goes: Out of the Past Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet They Live By Night The Set-Up Cry Danger The Narrow Margin While the City Sleeps On Dangerous Ground Cat People Angel Face The Hitch-Hiker

🗝️ 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗡𝗼𝗶𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 🗝️ #filmnoirclub #HolidayNoir @wahrhaftig.bsky.social @jauntworksstudio.bsky.social @ladykdesigns.bsky.social This Wednesday, Dec. 3rd's the watch and post of Cover Up, 1949 starts at 8pm EST. All are welcome! Here is a link to watch it for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zScp...

Day 28 #NoirvemberChallenge #filmnoir you watch over and over again? For me, it’s Murder My Sweet (’44). Moose, murder, jade, Claire Trevor, and Powell as Marlowe. I find something new to love every time I watch it. Cute as lace pants.

Day 27 #NoirvemberChallenge Fav #filmnoir scene featuring food? The Big Heat (1953) the steaks are fit for a #Thanksgiving feast in this noir classic directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando. Runner up: The Night of the Hunter (’55).

Wrap it all up with Eddie Mueller's #TheAsphaltJungle Outtro:
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Thank you @wahrhaftig.bsky.social, @jauntworksstudio.bsky.social, and all the #FilmNoirClub friends, birds, mugs, and dames, for joining me for one of my favorite #Noirvember #filmnoir classics. Have a very #HappyThanksgiving! 🦃

The song "The Green Green Grass of Home," which was the first #1 hit for Tom Jones, was written by Curly Putman after he watched Sterling Hayden's death scene in this film. #FilmNoirClub #TheAsphaltJungle

According to the Hays Code at the time, the film had to show that "crime doesn't pay," and every criminal character ended up either arrested or dead.  What an ending for Dix, and what a stunning shot. #FilmNoirClub #TheAsphaltJungle

Location shooting took place in Lexington and Keeneland, Kentucky. Fantastic shots by Cinematographer Harold G. "Hal" Rosson. #FilmNoirClub #TheAsphaltJungle

Shortly before Jean Hagen died in 1977, Sterling Hayden sent her a copy of his 1963 autobiography, "Wanderer." In the handwritten dedication, he spoke of Doll and Dix, their characters' names. #FilmNoirClub #TheAsphaltJungle

This #filmnoir starts in the city and ends in the country, much like another great noir, On Dangerous Ground (1951) starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan. #FilmNoirClub #TheAsphaltJungle

The musical scoring (by Miklós Rózsa) is extremely scant, occurring only for the main titles, continuing through the opening sequence where Handley enters the café, and then returns 107 min later when Dix and Doll return to the country. Total scoring just under 6 min. #FilmNoirClub #TheAsphaltJungle