Sweet smell of Success is set in New York City, they say that ‘your reputation is everything and if you’re not careful it could be destroyed overnight’. The director transforms New York City to a dystopia soaked with jazz, smoke and criminals what noir films all have. The film follows ‘Sidney Falso a press agent without the burdens of morality’. He is hired by J.J Hunsecker, New York highest newspaper columnist, to stop his sister from marring Dallas who is a young jazz guitarist. Therefore Sidney puts some reefers on him and spreads rumours that is a Communist, Thing seem to have worked and the relationship ends. However this isn’t the last we see of Sidney his is summoned to Hunsecker’s penthouse only to find the sister attempting suicide. Hunsecker walks in on Sidney saving her and accusing him of rape. Fates are decided and lives are destroyed as the truth comes out. In this film no one is innocent.
The Big Heat
The big heat is a violent and intense film, but most of the violence and deaths happen off screen, unseen. It starts off with a death of a police sergeant. There is a detective assigned to the case, Dave Bannion, believes that foul play may be involved. Bannion has reasons the think that a powerful gang of criminals has infiltrated the police force and bumped the sergeant off. However the department’s higher upper force the case closed and one of the witnesses willing to provide information is murdered. He insults the suspected mob boss only to have wife killed with a car bomb as a result. Using methods at his disposal and the help of the gangster’s girlfriend Debbie, he cuts a path of violence and anger through all the obstacles in his way.
Out of the Past
Jeff Bailey is running away from a past that he can’t escape from. At the start of the film we see bailey as the operator of a small town gas station, On day he is forced to meet with a gambler called Whit Sterling. On the way to the meeting, he confesses his past to his girlfriend. It seems that he was one a private eye who was hired by Sterling to his mistress Kathie after she shot him and stole $40,000 from him. Bailey managed to track her down to Acapulco. But he ended up falling in love with her. However one murder and terrible discovery later, he decided to leave her. Now his past is caught up with him as he travels to meet that man he betrayed. But when he confronts Sterling, Kathie is there. On man’s past will lead him to an uncertain future. It is left up to the audience to make the final judgement concerning the sad, strange case of Jeff Bailey.
The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe is a detective played by Humphrey Bogart. He finds himself in the employ of the sick and dying general Sternwood , who asks him to keep an eye on his daughter Carmen who has fallen in with a bad group of people. Too bad he is distracted by her beautiful older sister Mrs Vivian Rutledge. Things begin to get out of control as people start dying all around Marlowe and he gets involved with powerful criminals, an underground pornography ring, and several nasty cases of black mail.
The Killer
It starts where two hit men invade a small town and kill The Swede who puts up no resistance. We learn that the Swede used to be a member of a gang of thieves whom he was pushed into betraying by femme fatale Kitty Collins Colfax .The Swede is fully aware of his transgressions and knows that he cannot escape his fate and so he greets his punishment like a man instead of trying to escape from it. We then follow an investigator and a police detective as they struggle to track down his killers and bring them to justice.
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