A list of the "Best Ex-Pat Brit-Noir" would make for a good grouping in a modular film noir festival, which might be the best way for future festivals to be organized, particularly if they continue to migrate into the "virtual" approach. I've bolded a number of films that would be good candidates for such a module (but note no bolding for NIGHT AND THE CITY, which is listed here but is arguably a USA/UK co-production).
DAWN ADDAMS
The £20,000 Kiss (1963)
RICHARD BASEHART
The Good Die Young (1954)
The Stranger's Hand (1954)
The Intimate Stranger aka Finger of Guilt (1956)
ANNE BAXTER
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
WILLIAM BENDIX
Johnny Nobody (1961)
STEPHEN BOYD
The Third Secret (1964)
SCOTT BRADY
3 Steps to the Gallows aka White Fire (1953)
GEORGE BRENT
The Last Page aka Man Bait (1952)
LLOYD BRIDGES
The Limping Man (1953)
Third Party Risk aka The Deadly Game (1955)
HILLARY BROOKE
The House Across the Lake aka Heat Wave (1954)
BRUCE CABOT
Traitor Spy aka The Torso Trunk Mystery (1939)
JAMES CAGNEY
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
JOSEPH CALLEIA
The Noose aka The Silk Noose (1948)
MACDONALD CAREY
The Damned aka These Are the Damned (1962)
LEO G. CARROLL
So Evil My Love (1948)
MARY CASTLE
3 Steps to the Gallows AKA White Fire (1953)
DANE CLARK
Highly Dangerous (1950)
The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
Five Days AKA Paid to Kill (1954)
Murder by Proxy AKA Blackout (1955)
STEVE COCHRAN
The Weapon (1956)
BONAR COLLEANO
Good-Time Girl (1948)
Give Us This Day aka Christ in Concrete (1949)
Pool of London (1951)
Escape by Night (1954)
Joe MacBeth (1955)
EDDIE CONSTANTINE
Passport to Shame aka Room 43 (1959)
RICHARD CONTE
The Little Red Monkey aka The Case of the Little Red Monkey (1955)
JOSEPH COTTEN
The Third Man (1949)
ARLENE DAHL
Wicked as They Come aka Portrait in Smoke (1956)
Fortune is a Woman aka She Played With Fire (1957)
BETTE DAVIS
Another Man's Poison (1951)
JOHN DEREK
The Flesh is Weak (1957)
MARLENE DIETRICH
Stage Fright (1950)
BRADFORD DILLMAN
Circle of Deception (1960)
FAITH DOMERGUE
Solo Incident aka Spin a Dark Web (1956)
PAUL DOUGLAS
Joe MacBeth (1955)
DAN DURYEA
Thirty-Six Hours aka Terror Street (1954)
Do You Know This Voice? (1964)
Walk A Tighrope (1965)
ANN DVORAK
Squadron Leader X (1942)
Escape to Danger (1943)
GERALDINE FITZGERALD
So Evil My Love (1948)
The Late Edwina Black aka Obsessed (1951)
DIANNE FOSTER
The Quiet Woman (1951)
The Lost Hours aka The Big Frame (1952)
ZSA ZSA GABOR
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
PAULETTE GODDARD
The Stranger Came Home aka The Unholy Four (1954)
GLORIA GRAHAME
The Good Die Young (1954)
COLEEN GRAY
I'll Get Your For This aka Lucky Nick Cain (1951)
JULIETTE GRECO
Whirlpool (1959)
PAUL HENREID
Stolen Face (1952)
Mantrap AKA Man in Hiding (1953)
SKIP HOMEIER
No Road Back (1957)
OSCAR HOMOLKA
The Shop at Sly Corner aka The Code of Scotland Yard (1947)
House of the Arrow (1953)
The Key aka Stella (1958)
JOHN IRELAND
The Good Die Young (1954)
Black Tide aka Stormy Crossing (1958)
Faces in the Dark (1960)
VAN JOHNSON
Beyond This Place aka Web of Evidence (1959)
CURD JURGENS
Psyche 59 (1964)
HOWARD KEEL
The Small Voice (1948)
Floods of Fear (1958)
ARTHUR KENNEDY
Impulse (1955)
JACK LARUE
Murder in Soho AKA Murder in the Night (1939)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
CAROLE LANDIS
The Noose AKA The Silk Noose (1948)
MARC LAWRENCE
Kill Her Gently (1957)
PETER LORRE
Double Confession (1950)
BELA LUGOSI
The Dark Eyes of London aka The Human Monster (1939)
JAYNE MANSFIELD
The Challenge aka It Takes A Thief (1960)
HUGH MARLOWE
Night and the City (1950)
HERBERT MARSHALL
Wicked as They Come aka Portrait in Smoke (1956)
The Weapon (1956)
VICTOR MATURE
The Long Haul (1957)
LOIS MAXWELL
Mantrap aka Man in Hiding (1953)
Women of Twilight aka Twilight Women (1953)
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
MIKE MAZURKI
Night and the City (1950)
JOEL MCCREA
Rough Shoot aka Shoot First (1953)
BURGESS MEREDITH
Mine Own Executioner (1947)
GARY MERRILL
Another Man's Poison (1951)
BEVERLY MICHAELS
Women Without Men aka Blonde Bait (1956)
VERA MILES
Beyond This Place aka Web of Evidence (1959)
RAY MILLAND
So Evil My Love (1948)
Circle of Danger (1951)
DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY
Forbidden (1949)
TERRY MOORE
Postmark for Danger aka A Portrait of Alison (1956)
MICHELE MORGAN
The Fallen Idol (1948)
JEFF MORROW
Hour of Decision (1957)
BARRY MORSE
Daughter of Darkness (1948)
No Trace (1950)
MARY MURPHY
The intimate Stranger AKA The Finger of Guilt (1956)
DON MURRAY
Shake Hands With the Devil (1959)
GEORGE NADER
Nowhere to Go (1958)
PATRICIA NEAL
Psyche 59 (1964)
GENE NELSON
Dial 999 AKA The Way Out (1955)
ALEX NICOL
The House Across the Lake aka Heat Wave (1954)
Face the Music aka The Black Glove (1960)
LLOYD NOLAN
The Girl Hunters (1963)
EDMOND O'BRIEN
1984 (1956)
PAT O'BRIEN
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
CATHY O'DONNELL
Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
DENNIS O'KEEFE
Lady of Vengeance (1957)
PATRICIA OWENS
Walk A Tightrope (1965)
SUZY PARKER
Circle of Deception (1960)
LARRY PARKS
Tiger by the Tail AKA Cross-Up (1955)
LEE PATTERSON
The Passing Stranger (1954)
Soho Incident aka Spin a Dark Web (1956)
Deadly Record (1956)
The Flying Scot aka Mailbag Robbery (1957)
BARBARA PAYTON
The Flanagan Boy AKA Bad Blonde (1953)
WALTER PIDGEON
Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
ROBERT PRESTON
Cloudburst (1951)
GEORGE RAFT
I'll Get You for This aka Lucky Nick Cain (1951)
Escape Route aka I'll Get You (1952)
CLAUDE RAINS
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By aka The Paris Express (1952)
ALDO RAY
Johnny Nobody (1961)
MICHAEL RENNIE
Tower of Terror (1941)
Uneasy Terms (1948)
GINGER ROGERS
Beautiful Stranger aka Twist of Fate (1954)
RUTH ROMAN
Joe MacBeth (1955)
CESAR ROMERO
Street of Shadows aka Shadow Man (1953)
GEORGE SANDERS
Cairo (1963)
LIZABETH SCOTT
Stolen Face (1952)
The Weapon (1956)
ZACHARY SCOTT
Wings of Danger AKA Dead on Course (1952)
The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
ALEXIS SMITH
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
MICKEY SPILLANE
The Girl Hunters (1963)
KIM STANLEY
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
ROD STEIGER
Across the Bridge (1957)
JAN STERLING
1984 (1956)
MARK STEVENS
The Lost Hours aka The Big Frame (1952)
SUSAN STRASBERG
Scream of Fear (1961)
WILLIAM SYLVESTER
Give Us This Day aka Christ in Concrete (1949)
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
The Stranger Came Home aka The Unholy Four (1954)
Portrait of Alison aka Postmark for Danger (1955)
Whirlpool (1959)
Blind Date aka Chance Meeting (1959)
Offbeat aka The incident Inside (1961)
Incident at Midnight (1963)
Blind Corner aka Man in the Dark (1964)
GENE TIERNEY
Night and the City (1950)
Personal Affair (1953)
MARTA TOREN
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By AKA The Paris Express (1952)
PETER VAN EYCK
The Snorkel (1958)
CONRAD VEIDT
Contraband AKA Blackout (1940)
SAM WANAMAKER
Give Us This Day aka Christ in Concrete (1949)
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
The Criminal aka The Concrete Jungle (1960)
ROBERT WEBBER
Hysteria (1965)
ORSON WELLES
The Third Man (1949)
RICHARD WIDMARK
Night and the City (1950)
DANA WYNTER
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
MAI ZETTERLING
Faces in the Dark (1960)
Piccadilly Third Stop (1960)
Offbeat aka The Devil Inside (1961)
The Man Who Finally Died (1963)
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