on 5/23/2023, 11:27 am
Edited by Don Malcolm on 4/22/2020, 10:27 pm
This is a list begun by Gord back in 2016 that traced TV remakes of classic film noir. It strikes me that this is a great time to update this list further (if possible)...
This is by no means a complete list. It does however give an idea of just how many film noir were redone. This is just a few of the series I had a look at. I will had more titles to this post as I find them
Television remakes of Film Noir
ROBERT MONTGOMERY PRESENTS series
CHAMPION – PITFALL - PHANTOM LADY – RIDE THE PINK HORSE – THE BIG SLEEP – QUICKSAND – THE LOST WEEKEND – WAGES OF FEAR – SUNSET BLVD (seen)
STUDIO ONE series
THE GLASS KEY (seen) – SHIELD FOR MURDER – NIGHTFALL (seen) – BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT – THE DARK CORNER
LUX VIDEO THEATER series
DOUBLE INDEMNITY – KEY LARGO – A DOUBLE LIFE – THE CHASE – SUNSET BLVD – CASABLANCA – SHADOW OF A DOUBT – THE SUSPECT – LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE – THE WEB – THE STEEL TRAP – IMPACT – THE GUILTY – BLACK ANGEL – FLAMINGO ROAD – MILDRED PIERCE
SURE AS FATE series 1950
NIGHTFALL - two part
20TH CENTURY HOUR series
LAURA 20th 1955 Titled (A Portrait of Murder) George Sanders, Dana Wynter, Robert Stack
14 HOURS 1955 Titled (Man on the Ledge) Cameron Mitchell, Vera Miles, Sylvia Sidney, William Gargan
CALL NORTHSIDE 777 1957 Titled (False Witness) Fred MacMurray, Claude Akins, Jean Carson
5 FINGERS 1955 Titled (Operation Cicero) Ricardo Montalban, Maria Riva, Peter Lorre, Eduard Franz
LAURA - German TV movie 1962 Hildegarde Kneff, Anton Walbrook, Helmut Lange, John Van Dreelen
LAURA - Tv movie 1968 George Sanders, Robert Stack, Lee Bouvier (Radziwill)
DARK MIRROR 1984 tv movie
DOUBLE INDEMNITY 1973 (TV movie) with Richard Crenna, Lee J Cobb, Samantha Eggar
INFERNO remade as ORDEAL 1973 (TV movie) with Arthur Hill, Diana Muldaur, James Stacy
DESTRY series
RIDE THE PINK HORSE 1964 Titled (Ride to Rio Verde) with Charles McGraw
RIDE THE PINK HORSE - remade as THE HANGED MAN tv movie
HONG KONG series
THE DARK CORNER 1960 Titled (Suitable For Framing) with Julie London, Nestor Paiva, Jason Evers
INEXACT or PARTIAL REMAKES (Highly Similar Story Elements)
FORD TELEVISION THEATRE
ACT OF VIOLENCE 1956 Titled (Fear Has Many Faces) James Whitmrore, June Lockhart, Don Haggerty
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