#released this day

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Released on this day in 1944, PHANTOM LADY. Which Cornell Woolrich adaptation is your favorite?

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Released on this day in 1945, Fritz Lang's SCARLET STREET starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea.

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Released on this day in 1956, Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING. What is your favorite heist film?

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Released this day in 1945, "Fallen Angel." Dana Andrews stars as a charismatic grifter who courts and weds a sheltered spinster, Alice Faye in a warmly wonderful performance, to obtain enough money to win over a hardened beauty (Linda Darnell). His plans go awry when the object of his desire is murdered. Dir: Otto Preminger

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Released this day in 1941, John Huston's adaptation of  Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON.

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Released this day in 1950, GUN CRAZY.

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The three Bobs in CROSSFIRE, released this day in 1947.

This most nocturnal of noirs—it all takes place during one long night in Washington, D.C.—often gets overlooked as a crackerjack crime picture because of its incisive attack on American bigotry. A Jewish civilian turns up dead after fraternizing with several recently demobilized soldiers; the GIs close ranks in military fashion, but their Alpha-dog, Sgt. Keeley, gradually steers police captain Finlay toward the rotten apple in the bunch—an ignorant Southerner whose ingrained prejudice would have been welcomed in the Nazi SS. Memorable performances abound: Ryan is genuinely frightening, Mitchum forges his cool-cat persona, and Gloria Grahame and Paul Kelly are one of the strangest couples in 1940s cinema. Crossfire works spectacularly on two levels: as a searing and still-timely message picture and as a top-shelf, race-the-clock noir thriller.

1947, RKO Radio Pictures [Warner Bros.] 86 minutes. Screenplay by John Paxton, from the novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks. Produced by Adrian Scott. Directed by Edward Dmytryk.