Though his name is not as well remembered today, Felix E. Feist was, along with directors like Anthony Mann and Joseph H. Lewis, one of the masters of the B noir, bringing a hard-boiled toughness and stylistic punch to the evocatively gritty crime pictures he directed in the late 1940s and early ’50s. This selection of two of Feist’s finest—the hard-hitting corrupt-cop drama THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF and the slam-bang couple-on-the-run thriller TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY—shows his facility for turning threadbare production values and well-worn genre conventions into pure pulp poetry.
Directed by Felix E. Feist • 1950 • United States
Starring Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall
After his wealthy socialite girlfriend (Jane Wyatt) kills her scheming husband, homicide lieutenant Ed Cullen (Lee J. Cobb) goes to great lengths to cover up the murder, even as his kid brother (John Da...
Directed by Felix E. Feist • 1951 • United States
Starring Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
Having spent his entire adult life behind bars, brooding ex-con Bill Clark (Steve Cochran) is like a newborn in a fast, unforgiving world when he is finally released from prison. Heading to New Yo...
