Phillipe Garnier

With his prematurely white hair and alarming eyebrows, character actor Paul Stewart was bound to be nicknamed “Whitey” sooner or later. It happened in a most unexpected 1950 David O. Selznick production, directed by Robert Stevenson: Walk Softly, Stranger. All is well behind the white picket fences of the Ohio......

In the rarely shown early Anthony Mann film Two O’Clock Courage (1945), which screens this week as part of the American Cinematheque’s 11th annual film-noir festival, cabbie lady Ann Rutherford picks up amnesiac Tom Conway, who will soon discover himself accused of a high-profile murder. If this well-paced programmer seems......