When Diamond fails to gather enough evidence against Brown, he’s pressured to back off.

Based on the 1949 novel byW.R.

White Heatisan enthralling criminal noir filmfeaturingJames Cagney in one of his greatest performances.

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon

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Burt Lancaster standing in front of Yvonne de Carlo in Criss-Cross

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Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd looking from behind a wall in This Gun for Hire (1942)

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Richard Conte talking to two men under a single lamp light in The Big Combo (1955)

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Sterling Hayden looking at Sam Jaffe and Louis Calhern in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

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Glenn Ford looking at Gloria Grahame sitting in The Big Heat

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James Cagney’s Cody talking to Virginia Mayo’s Verna in White Heat

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Barbara Stanwyck standing behind a door as Fred MacMurray stands in the doorway in Double Indemnity

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A private eye and three crooked criminals look over a statue of a falcon.

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Clown in The Killing

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The Killing