The Great Flamarion (1945)

The Great Flamarion (1945) is an Anthony Mann flashback and voiceover vaudeville love and murder cheap-shot theatreland lowlife uptight artiste double love triangle scheming woman and cross-continental double-crossing dame pan-American alcohol-related hunt and chase drifter narrative classic sucker falls for a conniving woman film noir, starring Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes and Dan Duryea.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) is a psychological vigilante and posse film noir western starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Mary Beth Hughes, Dana Andrews, Harry Morgan and Marc Lawrence.

If film noir is about anything it's got to be moral failings and immoral decisions, and if the western genre is about anything it is about the rough construction of United States by means of law and order.

Many of the film noir westerns we watch deal with the construction of a legal process and the layering of the base myths of Americana, and it was fitting therefore to see this quite par hazard in its ideal double billing with My Darling Clementine (1946).

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) is a film noir for certain, largely because of the murderous mob and their moral dilemma, after we have witnessed the moral and murderous decision making of a new American community, an area of land and an area of being in which law and order are not as codified as they could be. 

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.