Douglas Sirk Noir

Douglas Sirk Noir

3 Episodes

Though best known today for his scorching 1950s melodramas, Douglas Sirk’s subversive sensibility and powers as a baroque visual stylist also served him well in the sinister world of noir. Trading lavish Technicolor for deep, black-and-white expressionist shadows, this trio of atmospheric thrillers—the fog-shrouded, London-set gothic mystery LURED, starring Lucille Ball; the Samuel Fuller–penned couple-on-the-run pulp firecracker SHOCKPROOF; and the Claudette Colbert–in-a-convent nun noir THUNDER ON THE HILL—are among the oft-overlooked gems in a career full of them.

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Douglas Sirk Noir

3 Episodes

  • Lured
    1:42:37
    Lured
    Episode 1

    Lured

    Episode 1

    Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1947 • United States
    Starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn

    Douglas Sirk brings a surfeit of menacing, fog-shrouded atmosphere to this wonderfully eccentric blend of mystery and comedy. A serial killer is on the loose in London, luring young women into h...

  • Shockproof
    1:19:55
    Shockproof
    Episode 2

    Shockproof

    Episode 2

    Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1949 • United States
    Starring Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey

    Scripted by Samuel Fuller and directed in striking noir style by Douglas Sirk, this whiz-bang thriller traces the doomed love triangle that ensnares a just-out-of-prison killer (Patricia Knight)...

  • Thunder on the Hill
    1:24:30
    Thunder on the Hill
    Episode 3

    Thunder on the Hill

    Episode 3

    Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1951 • United States
    Starring Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas

    Intrigue unfolds within the cloistered world of a convent in this atmospheric mystery-melodrama from Douglas Sirk. A torrential rainstorm forces convicted murderer Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth)—who ...

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