Diplomatic Courier (1952)

Diplomatic Courier (1952) is a Henry Hathaway Cold War espionage in post-war Europe screwball-adjacent drama romance chase military police procedural thriller, with Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Hildegard Knef, Stephen McNally, Karl Malden and special spot appearances from Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, and a further dynamic and fun extra cross dress appearance

As for screwball, there is a certain sure pedigree of connecting dramatic matter which links the screw of the ball and its previous decades of filmatics and is indicated in Diplomatic Courier (1952), highlighted and brought to our attention when Tyrone Power describes Patricia Neal across a Trieste café bar table as 'screwey'. 

Rimfire (1949)

Rimfire (1949) is a shoddy wild west justice undercover cop revenge journalism and media mystery semi-supernatural ghost of a gambler low budget thriller western film noir starring Reed Hadley, and directed by B. Reeves Eason.

Eason, who directed his first film in 1915, proving something about the Hollywood machine, and it must have been wonderful for him to see it in these glorious nascent and then silver and golden stages. This film starts too with a stage, a rather arbitrary and somehow unexciting stagecoach chase, which trails round the bends in a high speed action for the sake of action-sequence.