Channel 02

Noir After Dark

The night shift of the American picture.

Cheap films that turned their poverty into a style and their style into a worldview. Shot fast, lit hard, cut to the bone — the B-picture underworld where the American dream files its incident reports. Nobody here is innocent, and the cinematography agrees.

The rotation 22 films · 104 screenings a week

1. Detour 1945 · Edgar G. Ulmer 68 min
2. The Hitch-Hiker 1953 · Ida Lupino 71 min
3. Scarlet Street 1945 · Fritz Lang 101 min
4. D.O.A. 1950 · Rudolph Maté 83 min
5. The Stranger 1946 · Orson Welles 91 min
6. Kansas City Confidential 1952 · Phil Karlson 99 min
7. Quicksand 1950 · Irving Pichel 79 min
8. The Bigamist 1953 · Ida Lupino 79 min
9. The Hoodlum 1951 · Max Nosseck 62 min
10. Strange Illusion 1945 · Edgar G. Ulmer 85 min
11. The Doorway to Hell 1930 · Archie Mayo 78 min
12. The Big House 1930 · George W. Hill 87 min
13. Thunderbolt 1929 · Josef von Sternberg 91 min
14. The Unholy Three 1930 · Jack Conway 72 min
15. Street of Chance 1930 · John Cromwell 75 min
16. Lights of New York 1928 · Bryan Foy 57 min
17. Impact 1949 · Arthur Lubin 111 min
18. The Second Woman 1950 · James V. Kern 91 min
19. Port of New York 1949 · László Benedek 81 min
20. Paid 1930 · Sam Wood 86 min
21. The Racketeer 1929 · Howard Higgin 66 min
22. Born Reckless 1930 · John Ford 77 min

Every film starts at a quarter past or a quarter to, and the station break — test card and countdown — runs until it does. The week repeats: what is on at nine this Tuesday is on at nine next Tuesday. It has been running, notionally, since the epoch, and is at the same frame for everyone who tunes in. See what's coming in the Guide.