Superbly stylish and atmospheric thriller set in the steamy New Orleans of 1955. Down and out private eye Harry Angel is hired by the sinister Louis Cyphre to find a missing crooner who's been dabbling in the occult. But Harry's leads keep winding up ritually murdered. Chilling, erotic, brilliant. find out more...

Laughton's only stab at directing, with Mitchum giving a stunning performance as the psychopathic preacher who, whilst in jail for a minor offence, hatches a devious plan to get his hands on the loot stashed by his condemned cell-mate. Set in '30s rural America, the film polarises into a struggle between good and evil for the souls of innocent children. Laughton's deliberately old-fashioned direction throws up a startling array of images: an amalgam of Mark Twain-like exteriors (idyllic riversid find out more...