Phantom Lady (1944).

Ella Raines and
Thomas Gomez in
Phantom Lady

Directed by Robert Siodmak (The Spiral Staircase, etc.), this adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's book features Ella Raines turning sleuth to exonerate her boss, who is accused of killing his wife.

Cry of the City (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1948).

Based on Henry Martin Helseth's The Chair for Martin Rome, Cry of the City features wounded killer Richard Conte doggedly pursued by police lieutenant Victor Mature. Shelley Winters and Debra Paget costar; Robert Siodmak (The Spiral Staircase) directs.

The Suspect (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1944).

Directed by Robert Siodmak (The Spiral Staircase), The Suspect is based on James Ronald's novel This Way Out (which fictionalized the Dr. Crippen case). It features Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, and Henry Daniell.

McCloy, Moyes, and White reissued.

Among the books just reissued in the Arcturus Crime Classics series:

• MWA Grand Master Helen McCloy, Through a Glass, Darkly (1950). A doppelganger means trouble for a teacher and psychiatrist Basil Willing. The New York Times deemed it one of the best mysteries of 1950. Wrote Dorothy B. Hughes about the book in the Dec. 3, 1950, Washington Post, "Not since the late Bayard Veiller's 'Bait for a Tiger' has this reader been filled with such actual fear by a printed page."

• Patricia Moyes, Who Saw Her Die? (aka Many Deadly Returns, 1970). In this Edgar-nominated novel, Detective Chief Superintendent Henry Tibbett must figure out how a widow died.

• Ethel Lina White, Some Must Watch (1933). A killer preys on vulnerable women in this novel by the author of The Lady Vanishes that was adapted as Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase. 

Miklos Rozsa on The Killers.

Syracuse's online exhibition "Lights, Camera, Music" features film composers Franz Waxman and Miklos Rozsa, including discussion of Rozsa's score for The Killers—namely, Rozsa's ultimately successful claim that the theme for Dragnet was lifted from The Killers.

About the image: Burt Lancaster in The Killers (1946, dir. Robert Siodmak)

BFI Screenonline: Edward Woodward; Robert Siodmak; Our Man in Havana.

Recent additions to BFI Screenonline: A look at The Wicker Man (1973), a rather odd thriller featuring recently departed actor Edward Woodward as a police sergeant; the 1959 noirish adaptation of Robin Maugham's The Rough and the Smooth by The Killers and The Spiral Staircase director Robert Siodmak; and Carol Reed's 1959 adaptation of Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana.

About the image: Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy)