Grandon Rhodes
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
In this influential crime drama, an embittered cop, Det. James McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim battle with the city's lowlife. But while McLeod fights crime on the streets, his wife suffers from neglect at home. Based on Sydney Kingsley's Broadway play, this seminal movie was a prototype for everything from *Hill Street Blues* to *NYPD Blue*. Nominated for Best Actress (Eleanor Parker), Best Supporting Actress (Lee Grant), Best...
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
3) Human Desire
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Korean War vet Jeff Warren returns to his job as a railroad engineer and quickly succumbs to his boss's wife, Vicki Buckley. Thus begins a tangled web of suspicion, sex, and murder involving Vicki and her brutish husband Carl. Adapted by Alfred Hayes (Clash by Night) and shot by Burnett Guffey (Bonnie and Clyde), Lang's spellbinding masterpiece evokes a powerful emotional landscape of greed, jealousy, and Human Desire.