The Film Noir Foundation Video Archive presents an expanding catalog of noir-related video, ranging from exclusive interviews, to NOIR CITY guest appearances, to short films inspired by film noir. Many of the archive's playlists are available on our YouTube channel, and may be shared and embedded on other sites. Check back for new videos which will be added regularly.
Stuart Whitman is one of the last of a breed of rugged Hollywood leading men who rose to stardom through the old Hollywood studio system. An Academy Award nominee for The Mark and the star of numerous features in the 1960's, Whitman visited the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs to introduce a screening of his film Murder Inc (1960) and chat with host Alan K. Rode after the film. (2 parts)
The incomparable Marsha Hunt joined festival host and producer Alan K. Rode on stage at the Camelot Theatre in Palm Springs following the screening of Mary Ryan, Detective (1949) at the 2013 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. Ever-charming, witty and possessed of prodigious recall at 95 years young, Miss Hunt reminisced about her storied acting resume, the ordeal of the Blacklist and her career as an activist and crusader for social justice. (3 parts)
"The Most Interesting Man In the World?" That just might be writer-producer-director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who discusses film noir, rock and roll, Geraldine Fitzgerald (his mother), and being the illegitimate son of the legendary Orson Welles. With Eddie Muller, following a screening of his mother's film Three Strangers at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, 2013 (3 parts)
Jimmy Lydon first hit his marks on Broadway back in 1937, before embarking on a seven-decade Hollywood career as an actor, producer and writer. The loquacious jack-of-all-trades reminisced about his extraordinary life and career with host Alan K. Rode after a screening of Strange Illusion (1945) at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, May 2013. (3 parts)
Biographer and film historian Patricia Ward Kelly, the widow of screen immortal Gene Kelly, joined producer/host Alan K. Rode for a post screening discussion of Christmas Holiday (1944) at the 2013 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs. Mrs. Kelly's eloquence and wit concerning what was certainly the most intriguing movie of Gene Kelly's career progressed into a lively conversation about her husband's life and her own role as the trustee of Gene Kelly's legacy. (3 parts)
Following the screening of Edge of Doom at the 2013 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, actress Joan Evans speaks with film historian Foster Hirsch about the film with a new perspective, seeing it with fresh eyes after many years. She talks about working with co-star Farley Granger, who disliked the film, and Samuel Goldwyn, and compares her own feelings about both to those of her disgruntled co-star. Ms. Evans recalls the changes that were made in this "Catholic" noir to avoid censorship from the Catholic Legion of Decency. She talks about her later career, post-Goldwyn, and reveals why she retired in 1961. (3 parts)
Following the opening night screening of Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy at NOIR CITY 11 in 2013, Eddie Muller sat down with star Peggy Cummins to discuss both the making of the film and the enduring love audiences across the world have for this extraordinary film. Ms. Cummins also delves into how she won and lost the starring role of Forever Amber, the film that brought her to Hollywood. She discusses her acting career before and after Hollywood, including her inauspicious stage debut at Dublin's legendary Gate Theatre when she was still a child. (3 parts)
Actor Robert Dix discusses his father's legacy as well as his life as the son of a famous star who also became a respected actor between a double bill of The Power of the Whistler and Voice of the Whistler during NOIR CITY, HOLLYWOOD at the Egyptian Theatre in April 2010. (2 parts)
The films of Hugo Haas with femme fatale Cleo Moore created a unique noir oeuvre during the 1950s. With an introduction by Eddie Muller to Haas' Strange Fascination (1952), Alan K. Rode discussed the film afterwards with former actress Karen Sharpe Kramer who is also the caretaker of producer/director Stanley Kramer estate and legacy. (3 parts)
Peter Ford, son of renowned actor Glenn Ford (Gilda, The Big Heat, Human Desire) discusses the life and career of his father in a revealing and at times ribald Interviewwith Eddie Muller at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. They discuss Ford's underrated status as an actor, his complicated relationships with several of his leading ladies (including Rita Hayworth and Evelyn Keyes), and the challenges growing up in the shadow of a celebrated parent. (3 parts)
The Great Gatsby (1949) isn't considered film noir; but it was dark enough for The Film Noir Foundation to ask Universal Studios to strike a new 35mm print of Fitzgerald's classic novel originally produced by Paramount that had been missing for decades. After a sold-out screening at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival, Alan K. Rode discussed the dual legacies of Gatsby and iconic star Alan Ladd with actor/producer David Ladd. (3 parts)
Kathleen Hughes' uncredited debut in the noir classic Road House proved to be an auspicious beginning for the future scream queen of 50's sci-fi films. The veteran actress and bride of writer-producer Stanley Rubin (Decoy, The Narrow Margin, Macao) discussed her career and on-screen rep as a very bad girl in The Glass Web, Three Bad Sisters and Thy Neighbors Wife with Alan K. Rode to wrap up the 2012 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival In Palm Springs. (2 parts)
Renowned for her versatile work in films and television, actress Pat Crowley discusses her singular venture into film noir with Alan K. Rode after a screening of Phil Karlson's Key Witness (1960). Vibrantly stunning after a six decade career, Crowley recalls her early years at Paramount with Martin & Lewis, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray along with her seminal television career. (3 parts)
After the screening of a FNF funded restored print of Cry Danger (1951) legendary character actor Richard Erdman held court with Alan K. Rode on the stage of the Camelot Theatre to open the 2012 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, California. Erdman, who made his screen debut in Mr. Skeffington (1944), shared his often-humorous recollections about an extraordinary career that remains exuberantly vital with a reoccurring role on NBC's hit sit-com Community. (3 parts)
Norman Lloyd is the human memory bank of show business history. In his 97th year, the actor, director and producer of movies, plays and television was invited by Alan K. Rode to attend a screening of Scene of the Crime (1949) and join him for a post screening discussion. One doesn't InterviewNorman Lloyd in the traditional sense. One simply has to listen as an eight decade career in show business with Chaplin, Welles, Hitchcock, Renoir etc. is wittily recalled by one of the most gifted raconteurs of all time. (3 parts)
Marsha Hunt's distinguished acting career may have been derailed by the Blacklist, but the injustice empowered her to help others less fortunate. Her humanitarian work with the United Nations and the homeless in her own community created a selfless legacy extending far beyond Hollywood. Now in her 95th year, Marsha joined Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode at the 14th annual NOIR CITY: HOLLYWOOD for a rare screening of Mary Ryan, Private Detective (1950). In a lively discussion she discusses her work with Fred Zinneman, Jules Dassin, Orson Welles, and many others. (3 parts)
Michael Lindsay-Hogg is an exceptional talent—a writer, director, and actor with terrific credits dating back his 1960s work with The Beatles and Rolling Stones. But the Film Noir Foundation was thrilled to host him on a night honoring his mother, actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, star of the recently preserved Three Strangers and Nobody Lives Forever. And if you don't know who his legendary father is—watch the Interview! (2 parts)
Terry Moore has done it all. In a career encompassing seven decades, she has cavorted with Mighty Joe Young, was nominated for a Best Supporting Oscar in Come Back, Little Sheba and starred in Two of A Kind, Gambling House, Man on a Tightrope and Peyton Place. Along the way, she married Howard Hughes and posted for a nude photo layout in Playboy at the age of 55. In 2007, the effervescent Moore chatted with Alan K. Rode following a rare screening of the wacky Red-scare picture Shackout on 101 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California. (2 parts)
As part of the 2012 NOIRFEST, SANTA MONICA salute to Raymond Chandler, Alan K. Rode programmed and hosted a Chandler double bill at the Aero Theatre on February 15th that included a rare screening of The Brasher Doubloon (1947) with special guest Conrad Janis in attendance. Alan's post screening discussion with the eclectic actor-musician-director follows in three parts.
The awesome and ageless Angie Dickinson was the Special Guest at NOIR CITY X, Saturday night, January 21, 2012 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. Eddie Muller interviewed the humble and humorous star between screenings of her two classic sixties' noirs, The Killers (1964) and Point Blank (1967). The pair entertained the packed house with almost an hour of amazing anecdotes from her prolific career and personal life. (4 parts)
After a screening of Fred Zinnemann's Hatful of Rain (1957) at the Arthur Lyons Film in Festival in Palm Springs, on May 15, 2010, film historian Foster Hirsch interviewed star Don Murray. Murray reminisced about working with director Zinnemann and co-stars Eva Marie Saint and Anthony Franciosa on Hatful. The actor also discussed Marilyn Monroe, method acting, and acting in Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent (1962) as well as Hoodlum Priest (1961) which he also co-wrote and co-produced. (3 parts)
At the 2007 edition of NOIR CITY HOLLYWOOD, Alan K. Rode invited actress Lynne Carter to be the special guest for a rare screening of Port of New York (1949), one of the last of the classic era films noir produced by Eagle-Lion Studios. Carter conversed about her co-stars Scott Brady, Robert Rober, the screen debuts of Yul Brynner and Neville Brand, her marriage to actor William Talman, and Katherine Hepburn. (2 parts)
In April 2007, actress Kim Hamilton was persuaded by Alan K. Rode to make a rare personal appearance during the 8th Annual Festival of Film Noir at the Egyptian Theatre. After a screening of ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW, the elegant Hamilton recalled her role opposite Harry Belafonte and shared her memories of Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Abe Polonsky among other luminaries during a distinguished career that is still going strong in 2011. (2 parts)