Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-204) and index
Double indemnity (1944, 1954 [TV], 1960 [TV], 1973 [TV]), and Body heat (1981) -- Murder, my sweet (1944) and Farewell, my lovely (1975) -- Detour (1945, 1992) -- The big sleep (1945/1946, 1978) -- Notorious (1945, 1992 [TV]) -- The postman always rings twice (1945, 1981) -- The killers (1946, 1964) -- Somewhere in the night (1946) and The crooked way (1949) -- Body and soul (1947, 1981, 1998 [TV]) -- Dark passage (1947) and Johnny Handsome (1989) -- Kiss of death (1947, 1995) and The fiend who walked the west (1958) -- Out of the past (1947) and Against all odds (1984) -- Ride the pink horse (1947) and The hanged man (1964 [TV]) -- The big clock (1948) and No way out (1987) -- They live by night (1948) and Thieves like us (1974) -- Criss cross (1949) and The underneath (1995) -- Gun crazy (1949) and Guncrazy (1992) -- House of strangers (1949) and Broken lance (1954) -- The asphalt jungle (1950), The badlanders (1958), Cairo (1963), and Cool breeze (1972) -- D.O.A. (1949, 1988) and Color me dead (1969) -- Night and the city (1950, 1992) -- No man of her own (1950), I married a shadow (1982), While you were sleeping (1995), and Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) -- The prowler (1951) and Unlawful entry (1992) -- The narrow margin (1952) and Narrow margin (1990) -- The blue gardenia (1953) and The morning after (1986) -- Inferno (1953) and Ordeal (1973 [TV]) -- I, the jury (1953, 1982) -- Rear window (1954, 1998 [TV]) -- Les diaboliques (1955), Reflections of murder (1974 [TV]), House of secrets (1993 [TV]), and Diabolique (1996) -- The desperate hours (1955) and Desperate hours (1990) -- Night of the hunter (1955, 1991 [TV]) -- A kiss before dying (1956, 1991) -- Ransom (1956, 1996) -- Vertigo (1958) and Mirage (1995) -- A bout de souffle (aka Breathless, 1960) and Breathless (1981)