A look at two similarly themed sports novels set in the high school milieu.

For some of us who were fortunate enough to have been a part of the Golden Age, however, the memory lingers on.

Robert Taylor proves in Johnny Eager he could play perfectly an obscure racketeer, an outlaw who continues to pull off tricks even against his own integrity.

Despite of the superficial obviousness of the script in places, we cannot disregard the multiple meanings that lie on the film's hidden symbolism.

Considering the print and film versions of Cain's classic noir novel.

"She looks like that dead girl! How sick are you?"

Emulating hardboiled lingo to a T, Megan Abbott traces the strange circumstances surrounding actress and B-girl Jean Spangler, who disappeared from Los Angeles in 1949.

"Why have a civilization if we're no longer interested in being civilized?"

"People think we lead lives of glamour and romance, but we're really lonely—terribly lonely."

“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.” - John Garfield's last knockout in Body & Soul