*All times are PT. Please check your local listings to confirm dates and times.
Saturday, August 1, 12:30 AM
MIKE’S MURDER (1984): A bank teller (Debra Winger) is pulled into the seedy world of Los Angel’s underworld when she tries to uncover the disappearance of her tennis coach and occasional lover with his partner in drug dealing (Darrell Larson). She is drawn into the underworld Dir. James Bridges
Saturday, August 1, 3:00 AM – Sunday, August 2, 3:00 AM
Here are the noirs…
10:30 AM
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955): Engrossing musical bio (from an Oscar-winning story by Daniel Fuchs) of Jazz Age singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day), whose life and career were dominated by gangster Marty 'The Gimp' Snyder, (James Cagney). Ruth’s musical advisor Johnny Alderman (Cameron Mitchell) attempts repeatedly to persuade Ruth to leave her abusive relationship. Dir. Charles Vidor
9:00 PM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956): A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumbles on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans garnered the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for the film’s song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
11:15 PM
STORM WARNING (1951): A model (Ginger Rogers) visits her recently married younger sister (Doris Day) in small town America and witnesses a lynching. When she arrives at her sister’s home, she realizes her brother-in-law (Steve Cochran) was part of the lynch mob. Will she help the crusading D.A. (Ronald Regan) bring down the local branch of the KKK, including her sister’s husband? Dir. Stuart Heisler
Sunday, August 2, 3:00 AM – Monday, August 3, 3:00 AM
Here are the noirs (almost all of the films)…
7:00 AM
ACROSS THE PACIFIC (1942): The cast and director of The Maltese Falcon reunited to make this breezy espionage thriller about an American agent, Humphrey Bogart, who tries to keep Axis spies from blowing up the Panama Canal. The all-time greatest Chinese-American character actor, Keye Luke, has the distinction of wearing the most hideously garish suit in the history of Hollywood cinema. Co-stars Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet add to the fun. Dir. John Huston
9:00 AM
CASABLANCA (1942): A love triangle plays out in Vichy controlled Casablanca between a cynical bar owner (Humphrey Bogart), a resistance fighter (Paul Henreid) and his beautiful wife (Ingrid Bergman). The supporting cast includes Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Conreid Veidt. Dir. Michael Curtiz
11:00 AM
BEAT THE DEVIL (1949): In this humorous crime film, six professional thieves, all on the trail of a piece of African land supposedly containing a valuable uranium deposit in Africa, cross paths with a seemingly guileless British couple (Jenifer Jones and Edward Underdown) while stranded in Italy. Double crosses and romantic entanglements stir things up. The thieves include Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley and Gina Lollobrigida. Dir. John Huston
3:00 PM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946): In Howard Hawks’ clever and sophisticated adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel, private eye Philip Marlowe’s (Humphrey Bogart) investigates the involvement of an opium addled (and nymphomaniacal) society girl (Martha Vickers) in the murder of a pornographer. He also must determine if her sister (Lauren Bacall) is helping or hindering him. Dir. Howard Hawks
5:00 PM
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949): A crusading lawyer (Humphrey Bogart) fights to defend a young man (John Derek) on trial for killing a cop. His long rap sheet doesn’t help his credibility. Dir. Nicholas Ray
7:00 PM
THE HARDER THEY FALL (1956): A cynical press agent (Humphrey Bogart) tempted by the money, goes to work as a PR flak for the corrupt manager (Rod Steiger) of a naïve boxer. He then must decide between the dough and exposing the inhuman conditions rife in the boxing game. DP Burnett Guffey earned an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White for his work on the film. Dir. Mark Robson
9:00 PM
DEAD RECKONING (1947): A tough veteran (Humphrey Bogart) sets out to solve his war buddy's murder. During his investigation he encounters his friend’s best girl Lizabeth Scott in easily the best performance of her career. Dir. John Cromwell
11:00 PM
DARK PASSAGE (1947): Adapted from a story by David Goodis, this noir follows convicted wife murderer Vincent Parry’s (Humphrey Bogart) escape from jail and subsequent hunt for the real killer of his wife. Sympathetic stranger Irene (Lauren Bacall) encounters him during his jail break and aids him. Agnes Moorehead steals the show as Irene’s shrewish friend who knew Vincent and his wife prior to the murder. Dir. Delmer Daves
Tuesday, August 4, 3:00 AM – Wednesday, August 5, 3:00 AM
Only one noir programmed
5:00 PM
THE BIG HEAT (1953): In this seminal noir, a police detective (Glenn Ford) whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a gangster's moll (Gloria Grahame) to bring down a powerful racketeer (Alexander Scourby). Lee Marvin steals the film as Grahame’s abusive boyfriend and eventual object of her revenge. Dir. Fritz Lang
Wednesday, August 5, 3:00 AM – Thursday, August 6, 3:00 AM
Here are the noirs…
9:00 AM
HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948): In this iconic noir, an ex-con (Paul Henreid) whose “last heist” just went wrong, goes on the lam and poses as a psychiatrist. He falls for the psychiatrist’s lover and secretary (Joan Bennett) and then things go awry. The great John Alton serves as cinematographer. As we like to say at the FNF, “It’s a bitter little world.” Dir. Steve Sekely
10:30 AM
THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947): A shell-shocked coastguardsman (Robert Ryan) falls for a married woman (Joan Bennett) trapped in a loveless marriage to a renowned artist that she accidently blinded during a drunken fight. He begins to suspect that her husband (Charles Bickford) might be able to see. Dir. Jean Renoir
1:15 PM
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944): This almost seems like a trail run for Fritz Lang’s noir classic Scarlet Street (1945) - same stars, same bad guy, same director and a similar storyline. A mild-mannered professor (Edward G. Robinson) meets a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) by chance and soon finds himself caught in web of murder and blackmail. Dan Duryea (who else?) co-stars as a very sleazy private detective. Dir. Fritz Lang
3:00 PM
SCARLET STREET (1945): A henpecked cashier and weekend painter, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), falls for heartless tramp Kitty (Joan Bennett) whom he meets by chance. She and her pimp/boyfriend Johnny (Dan Duryea) play the sucker for everything he has. Then Chris starts to embezzle to keep his lady love happy and things go from bad to worse. Dir. Fritz Lang
5:00 PM
MAN HUNT (1941): In this suspenseful noir based on Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, the Gestapo hunts down a sportsman (Walter Pidgeon) after he accidentally stumbles across Hitler's secret residence. He finds an unlikely ally in a lovely Cockney girl (Joan Bennett). t is based on the 1939 novel Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household. Dir. Fritz Lang
Saturday, August 8, 3:00 AM – Monday, August 9, 3:00 AM
Here are the noirs…
5:15 AM
THE GETAWAY (1972): In this first big screen adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel, a husband (Steve McQueen) and wife (Ali MacGraw) meet a series of misadventures after a bank heist and the wife’s shooting of the mastermind of the robbery who double crossed them. Stars McQueen and McGraw fell in love during the shooting of the film. Walter Hill penned the screenplay. Dir. Sam Peckinpah
3:00 PM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968): A bored business tycoon (Steve McQueen) turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator (Faye Dunaway) assigned to bring him in. Hard to decide which of the leads is prettier. Dir. Norman Jewison
6:30 PM
BULLITT (1968): When mobsters kill the witness Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) was assigned to protect, he uses unorthodox methods to investigate the case. Beautiful San Francisco location work and a breathtaking car chase sequence add additional pleasure to watching this fine neo-noir, not to mention the iconic Lalo Schifrin score. Dir. Peter Yates
NOIR ALLEY with FNF prez Eddie Muller will be on hiatus during the month of August due to TCM’s Summer Under the Stars 2026. The show will return on September 5, film TBA.
Summer of Darkness: Debra Winger in Mike's Murder on August 1
Steve Cochran and Ginger Rogers in Storm Warning on August 1
Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in Across the Pacific on August 2
John Derrick in Knock on Any Door screening August 2
Lizabeth Scott and Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning on August 2
Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin in The Big Heat on August 4
Paul Henried stars in Hollow Triumph on August 5
Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea in Scarlet Street on August 5
Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen in The Getaway on August 8
Steve McQueen stars in Bullitt on August 8