Bogart’s ruthless and alluring performance solidified him as a popular leading man.

Double Indemnityis a spellbinding classic noir that gives a whole new meaning to how crime never pays.

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The Maltese Falcon poster featuring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor

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Ava Gardner leaning against a piano with Burt Lancaster standing behind her in The Killers (1946)

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Joseph Cotten sits up in bed as Teresa Wright stands next to him in Shadow of a Doubt

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Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) glides through a pack of photographers, looking intensely into the camera in Sunset Boulevard

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Glenn Ford looking at Gloria Grahame sitting in The Big Heat

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Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony talking in Strangers on a Train

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Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Sam Spade, and others huddle around the Falcon statue in The Maltese Falcon

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Gene Tierney sitting down looking at someone skeptically in Laura (1944)

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Barbara Stanwyck standing behind a door as Fred MacMurray stands in the doorway in Double Indemnity

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Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey and Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat sitting on a couch in Out of the Past

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The Killers (1946)

Shadow of a Doubt