The Big Sleep
Humphrey Bogart plays the famous detective character . He finds himself in the employ of the sick and dying General Sternwood, who asks him to keep an eye on his daughter Carmen who has fallen in with a bad group of people. Too bad he is distracted by her beautiful older sister Mrs. Vivian Rutledge, played by the amazing Lauren Bacall. Things begin to get out of control as people start dying all around Marlowe and he gets involved with powerful criminals, an underground pornography ring, and several nasty cases of blackmail.
The Killers
It starts where two hit men invade a small town and kill Ole Anderson (aka The Swede) who puts up no resistance. We learn that the Swede (played by Burt Lancaster) used to be a member of a gang of thieves whom he was pushed into betraying by femme fatale Kitty Collins Colfax (played by Ava Gardner).The Swede is fully aware of his transgressions and knows that he cannot escape his fate and so he greets his punishment like a man instead of trying to escape from it. We then follow an investigator and a police detective as they struggle to track down his killers and bring them to justice.
Out of the Past
At the start of the film, we find Bailey as the operator of a small town gas station but one day, he is forced to meet with a gambler named Whit Sterling. On the way to the meeting, he confesses his past to his girlfriend. It turns out that he was once a private eye who was hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie after she shot him and stole $40,000 from him. Bailey managed to track her down to Acapulco. Who he falls in love with. But one murder and terrible discovery later, he decided to leave her. Now, his past has caught up with him as he travels to meet the man that he betrayed. The only problem is that when he confronts Sterling, Kathie is there
Pickup on South Street
On a crowded subway in New York City, a small time pickpocket named Skip McCoy steals a wallet. Unbeknownst to him is the fact that the woman he robbed was carrying a microfilm of stolen top-secret government information that was destined for a group of Communists. With the incredibly vital information in the hands of a common thief, both the police and the Communists start to track him down. Too bad Mr. McCoy doesn’t care about the welfare of his country or his civic duty. To him, it is an opportunity to make a bundle from the highest bidder. As he slips away from the police and the Communists, it is up to Candy, the woman he robbed, to find him and get the microfilm back
The Big Heat
It all starts with the death of a police sergeant. The detective assigned to the case, Dave Bannion, thinks that foul play may be involved. Bannion has reason to believe that a powerful gang of criminals has infiltrated the police force and bumped the sergeant off. But the department’s higher ups force the case closed and one of the only witnesses willing to provide information is murdered. Enraged, he insults the suspected mob boss only to have his wife killed with a car bomb as a result. This puts him on a war path of furious vengeance as he swears to take the culprits down. Using every method at his disposal and the help of the gangster’s girlfriend Debbie, he cuts a path of violence and anger through all the obstacles in his way.
Conclusion
All of these films have a common convetion of having a dectetive or some kind of higher auothroty such as police as well as involving gangsters and love intrestes.
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