Shadows & Pinstripes

Season 3 is here, and Drew hopes to keep our short and sweet. So he kicks things off with a sweet tale of grift and conscience...

In this episode, Drew joins a rowdy crew of hucksters and ex-cons for a jewel heist! What could go wrong?

In this episode, Drew gets in the middle of two childhood friends who took different paths and chaos ensues with the 1948 Robert Siodmak film noir "Cry of the City."

In this episode, Drew traverses the jazzy rain-slicked streets of Manhattan at night, FINALLY stops beating around the bush, and gets down to brass tack (or tax) or something. Anyway, it's time for perfection: Sweet Smell of Success (1957).

In this episode, Drew does a lot of complaining about Olive Films. Shut up already, dude! Also: Robert Siodmak's The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry.

In this episode, two friends become enemies because of a dame. Drew sips a bourbon at the end of the bar, then follows them to the courtroom, then a cabin in the wilderness!

In this episode, Drew wanders around the nooks and crannies of a spooky New England mansion. There's a bulldog, and angry old lady, a woman who has lost her voice, and a killer on the loose. Wish him luck!

In this episode, Drew witnesses a pickpocket on the subway...then has to run from the Reds!

In this episode, Drew travels the storm drains of Los Angeles by flashlight in search of a cop killer!

In this episode, featuring the Film Noir Foundation's restoration of "Too Late For Tears", someone throws a bag of cash into Drew's convertible at night! He wants to turn it in to the police, but cold hard cash has a way of bringing out the worst in people!

In this Episode, Drew returns to England's cobblestone streets to witness another good man gone bad in Robert Siodmak's "The Suspect."

In this episode, Drew travels from Detroit to Los Angeles with a couple of Treasury Agents. They couldn't get into too much trouble, could they? I mean, they are just a couple of pencil-pusher accountant types, right? RIGHT??

In this episode, Drew tries to avoid Jack the Ripper by ducking into the gaslit pubs of Victorian Liverpool, but manages a few minutes to watch the 1948 gaslight noir flick "So Evil My Love."

In this episode, Drew wakes up in a haze and fights off his amnesia by talking about the movie "High Wall"

In this episode, Drew's lips are loosened by a fine bourbon and he talks about one of the greatest spy flicks of the Noir era, Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious"

In this episode, Drew follows a two-timin' dame to a beach house and gets himself into a lot of trouble when he decides to take on a murderous alternate identity. Along the way, he talks about the fantastic 1949 film noir "Tension."

In this episode Drew goes off-script and decides to spout off a bunch of his favorite film noirs (films noir? -- can anyone tell us what it's supposed to be?) and counts down to his Golden Two -- the two GREATEST Film(s) Noir(s) (problem solved!) that he would take with him to a desert island. You know, if the desert island had a TV and HDMI cables and wifi or a blu-ray player or whatever.

Drew travels to the dusty town of San Something and talks about Robert Montgomery's noir classic "Ride the Pink Horse" over shots of tequila.

From behind bars, Drew professes his undying love for Jules Dassin and Burt Lancaster while discussing the classic film noir "Brute Force."

In this episode, Drew gets cornered by some street toughs by the produce vendors that try to make him sell his oranges at a cut rate price. He regales them with his story about how he got interested in classic cinema and made his way to the darker side of old movies: FILM NOIR.

In a seedy dive off the main drag, Drew tries to avoid being questioned by Mike Hammer and watches Kiss Me Deadly.