The Glass Wall (1953)

The Glass Wall (1953) is a returning veteran post-Holocaust musical Manhattan based chase and race against time innocent man abroad man hunt cheap-boarding room bound ship and pavement immigrant stowaway thriller with Vittorio Gassmann and Gloria Grahame, and in the meantime, I would so assert bub, that this is a little known but effective film noir, notable for terrific street photography, as wella s starring Joe Turkel in an uncredited young punk son role, and being directed by Maxwell Shane, who became a screenwriter before becoming a director in 1947, after which he worked on noirish films, as a writer or director, like Hell's Island, Fear in the Night and the remake Nightmare, while also scripting City Across the River (1949) and directing1955's The Naked Street, generally some decent noirs, some decent noirs.

The Naked Street (1955)

The Naked Street (1955) is a death penalty pregnancy and child loss crime corruption and extortion frame up film noir by Maxwell Shane starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Quinn and Farley Granger.

If film noir naming conventions are to be adhered to, then The Naked Street (1955) trumps top in many delightful ways, composed as it is of that favourite noir naming trope — the street.

Lassie slapping noir is a stryle of street noir dirty with villainy and snarls, here delivered by back-handin' Anthony Quinn, some super indented toothy noir by numbers, a film of straight lines.

Studio noir with cool and low down fast action location shooting blended everyday realism with a sense of poetic melancholy. Films of noir often depicted characters living on the margins of society, facing disappointment, disillusionment, and fatalistic views of life.

Nightmare (1956)

Nightmare (1956) is a tortured male lead psychological thriller mystery film noir directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy and Connie Russell.

It's such a mystery indeed to relate how a man can dream a nightmare and find a key and wash blood off his hands and not know what he has done, such a mystery that the story is told twice in the great film noir era because this same story was told in the film Fear In The Night (1943), also a great example of the style and its obsessions.

Essentially Nightmare (1956) is a tale of paranoia, murder and psychology, making of it noir mania in a deluxe package. Cracking weird action drives our hero played by Kevin McCarthy, doing a bit of what he was to later perfect in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.