X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) is a classic cosmic horror psychedelic parody Roger Corman mad scientist acid casualty and addiction groovy lounge music and experimental sound masterpiece of comedy terror and inverted American dream Vegas and sideshow apocalyptic guignol Lovecraftian scientific hubris Pathécolor pulp science fiction horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman, from a script by Ray Russell and Robert Dillon, and starring Ray Milland as a scientist who develops a method to extend the range of his vision, which results in unexpected complications, with Don Rickles, Diana Van der Vlis and veteran character actor Morris Ankrum.

The Killers (1964)

The Killers (1964) is a television-style flashback color Hemingway remake sports motor racing and murder femme fatal and gangster heist fallout and violence against a blind woman Don Siegel almost un- or non-credible cool brutal crime action film noir that is barely a film noir insofar as the noir is far from the habitual armoire of typical style motifs, but is called a film noir nonetheless, with oddly no night time scenes at all, not that excludes it from the film noir category, it is in the style that this nonnoirness nor nihilist nemesis, nor nausea-inducing net of failed morality, but it's crass instead, normal narrative, neatly non-noir, and with the star Lee Marvin and the stars Angie Dickinson, John Cassavettes, and President Ronlad Reagan.

Blackout (1950)

Blackout (1950) is a British recuperating crash victim voiceover wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time case of mistaken identity missing airman currency exchange racket Hitchcock-style switcheroo amateur sleuth film noir goose chase boarding rooms and corridors darkness and blinds | blindness mystery adventure with Maxwell Reed, Michael Brennan, Dinah Sheridan, and is a part of the Robert S. Baker Limey noir oeuvre which is a small oeuvre that will be noted, but still holding a place in Limey noir canonical collection and viewing, and is of course a must-see stop, for they are all must see stops, in the viewership of the complete collection of work by the favourite of the weblog Patric Dooonan.

Victim (1961)

Der extreme Höhepunkt des absoluten Kinos in Bezug auf die Basil-Dearden-Filmsaison.

Victim (1961) is a classic British later late period film noir blackmail and homosexuality socio public crime and mystery social issue internalised homophobia Basil Dearden lousy husband thriller noir which as well as being the the first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, is a sneak look into the male queer London underground as it affected lives high and low, pub going and inner court, bookshop and barber shop, and starring Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird and Peter McEnery as Jack "Boy" Barrett.

Night Without Stars (1951)

Night Without Stars (1951) is a romantic ex-collabo returning veteran hitting on a war widow blind man as sleuth somewhat suspenseless suspenser intrigue thriller set in the south of France and employing French cliche and post war ennui in a blindness as a metaphor for blindness adequate British Pinewood oldie noir without stars, featuring David Farrar as Giles Gordon, Nadia Gray, Alix Delaisse, Maurice Teynac, Louis Malinay, Gilles Quéant, Gérard Landry, Pierre Chaval and June Clyde.

23 Paces To Baker Street (1956)

23 Paces To Baker Street (1956) is a London-based slack-paced DeLuxe Color CinemaScope blindness writer hero murder mystery suspenser, based on the 1938 novel Warrant for X by Philip MacDonald.

Van Johnson’s sightless sleuth slides by the skin of ears into and out of and around the shadows of 50s suspense, as cinema overhears some conversation in a pub and the predictable aural showdown.

The Brute Man (1946)

The Brute Man (1946) is an exploitation noir-style civic horror B-feature in which social fears of deformity seem to come alive in the rather blunt capitalisation of the medical misfortunes of Rondo Hatton, some time proto-horror star and former journalist who found a career in film due to his unique facial features, which were the result of acromegaly. Hatton headlined horror films with Universal Studios near the end of his life, earning him a reputation as a cult icon.

In The Brute Man, Hatton plays Hal Moffet. He’s a handsome college athlete disfigured by a chemistry lab accident. Raging at the friend he blames for his misfortune, he sets off on a killing spree. 

This neatly parallels Hatton’s real biography. He was once an athletic youth, but war and disease changed his body.