Strange Impersonation (1946)

Strange Impersonation (1946) is a female scientist romance and love rivalry and disfigurement and hallucinogenic psychological fantasy jealousy and blackmail film noir plastic surgery melodrama by Anthony Mann and starring Ruth Ford, Hillary Brooke and William Gargan, all of whom combine to produce a block rocking cheapo fantasy film noir narrative of the first water, making it a film more of classic noir than many a classic film noir, and although this remains thematically and even stylistically classic, the overcoat of fantastic doom and femme fatality and the all important subject of identity, make of Strange Impersonation (1946) a classic of its medium and style, and a classic of its meta-narrational type, exploring the popular idiom and thinking of its day, as it does.

Black Fury (1935)

Black Fury (1935) is a labour relations coal country Pennsylvania-based Warner Bros. working class mining rough-shoddily Slav impersonating private police force versus striking miners based on a historic incident melodrama, with a poor American mining community relentlessly portrayed as a mob of easily swayed poverty stricken proles, versus the kind of private company police force that used to only a few years earlier, in 1929, beat to death striking workers that happened to be standing under the wrong club et sturdy baton.

That is in certain fact the story of John Barcoski who immigrated in to the USA in 1906, who was Polish, and who was beaten to death in Pennsylvannia by the PA's Coal and Iron Police on February 10th, 1929.

The Argyle Secrets (1948)

The Argyle Secrets (1948) is a zany meta low budget fun and mysterious film noir parody item that while styled on such noir as The Maltese Falcon, does try to either massively plagiarise another work of art altogether, while concealing the fact in the copying of other mystery hits.

As an almighty act of cobbling together The Argyle Secrets (1948)

The Argyle Secrets (1948) exemplifies the creative opportunities and limitations of post-war Hollywood, a period marked by declining studio power and the rise of independent production. Changes in tax law, the fallout from the Paramount antitrust case, and declining audience numbers in 1947 all contributed to the weakening of the major studios, creating space for new production companies to emerge. 

Night Editor (1946)

Night Editor (1946) is a lousy husband crooked cop journalism and media-framed film noir murder and police procedural directed by Henry Levin and starring William Gargan, Janis Carter and Jeff Donnell.

This quiet epic of quick production B or C-movie magic and exploitation melodrama was adapted from a well-liked radio show bearing the same title. Its screenplay drew inspiration from an episode of the radio series titled Inside Story. 

Produced by Columbia Pictures as a B-movie, it was intended to launch a sequence of movies chronicling the nocturnal adventures of crime reporters at the fictitious New York Star newspaper. However, no subsequent films in the Night Editor series were produced.