Stranger on the Third Floor "Melodrama" Less than a year after

Less than a year after the inaugural flight of Pan American Airways' China Clipper captured the public's interest

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Ann Miller

Dead Reckoning and Lady in the Lake as well as episodes of Combat

Rod Steiger plays the tattoo-covered title role in this fascinating vision of doom and danger based on the classic short story collection by futurist Ray Bradbury

Stranger on the Third Floor "Melodrama" Less than a year afterThis classic but sometimes overlooked film is generally considered the first film noir, with its extraordinary, radically new look and tone, the product of stylized sets, bizarre angles and lighting, and a powerful blurring of dream and reality qualities strongly influenced by German expressionist films of the 1920s. A reporter (John McGuire) discovers a murder but via his well meaning testimony in the corrupt legal system ends up condemning an