For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) is a Sam Wood directed and produced adapted from the classic Ernest Hemigway novel epic Spanish Civil War tale of resistance, camarederie, and bridge blasting and romance amid guerilla warfare about an American International Brigades volunteer who is fighting against the fascists and who falls in love with a young woman guerrilla fighter during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Fortunio Bonanova, Eric Feldary, Victor Varconi as Primitivo, the lookout and Joseph Calleia.

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Mission to Moscow (1943) is a lengthy docu-style pro-Stalinist American mid-War political and diplomatic film noir tour of pre-World War Two Europe and the Soviet Union, displaying Nazi activity in the USA and in Germany and offering a vaguely unique 120 minutes of cinematic earnest as diplomat Joseph E. Davies, a handpicked business choice by President Roosevelt, featured in shadow, moves pleasantly and occasionally with a furrowed brow through the landscapes of the Nazi world of confusion which presaged the fatal conflagration of the early to mid 1940s.

Two Smart People (1946)

Two Smart People (1946) is a goofy capersome madcap kinda screwball-styled film noir-ish buddy movie style road movie style (train would be more accurate) government bond smuggling romance adventure movie, although to call it either a thriller or a film noir might indeed be stretching the definitions of both, though it is an event-filled journey that Two Smart People follows.

Yet Two Smart People (1946) does find its way on to our radar screens, not in the least because it is directed by film noir scion Jules Dassin, making of it Grade-A material for our investigative teams of ardent noireaux.

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Cloak and Dagger (1946) is a Nazi nuclear secrets behind enemy lines espionage thriller made partially in the film noir style by Fritz Lang, starring Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer.

One of a handful of major Hollywood stars of the Golden Age who remained a virtual stranger to film noir, Gary Cooper plays a bachelor nuclear physicist named Alvah Jesper who is working in the United States on the Manhattan Project to build a nuclear bomb. 

Recruited into the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) his mission is to make contact with a Hungarian nuclear physicist, Katerin Lodor, who has been working on the German project to make a nuclear bomb and has escaped into neutral Switzerland.