Hayden gives a phenomenal performance in this must-see classic that essentially gets better and better with every re-watch.

The film opens with two insurance detectives who are investigating the professional murder of a former boxer.

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Clown in The Killing

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Joseph Cotten looking at Orson Welles, neither trusting the other, in The Third Man

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

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“Preacher” Harry Powell with “Love” written on his fingers in The Night of the Hunter

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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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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall sitting and talking in The Big Sleep

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Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony talking in Strangers on a Train

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Gloria Grahame lying on a couch while on the phone in The Big Heat (1953)

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Gilda smiling widely in Gilda

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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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