
Eddie Muller
Acting
Biography
Eddie Muller is an American writer based in San Francisco. He is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and hosts the weekly film noir showcase "Noir Alley" on Turner Classic Movies.
Known For

Tracing a century of movie and TV history, these four documentary specials explore the unparalleled global impact of Warner Bros. on art, commerce, and culture.
100 Years of Warner Bros.

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.
American Grindhouse

A group of students are trapped at a school after a time capsule from the 1950's is cracked open by an earthquake. The students soon realize that ghostly spirits escaped from the time capsule, and possessed the principal and three other teachers.
Haunted High

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.
Tab Hunter Confidential

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

Tab Hunter’s first-person account of his struggle to come to terms with his sexual orientation in 1950s Hollywood, an era in which being openly gay was taboo.
Tab & Tony

An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon."
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

The history of the birth of an icon, the Borsalino hat. From the factory where it was conceived in a small Italian town, to the glamorous world of Hollywood.
Borsalino City

Details Mamie Van Doren’s rise in Hollywood in the 1950s after being discovered by Howard Hughes, as well as her personal life.
Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell

Film noir expert Eddie Muller and others discuss the classic film Trapped.
Freeing “Trapped”
Promotional short to benefit Eddie Muller's Film Noir Foundation and their annual "Noir City" event in San Francisco, CA.
Shot Edited
Brief overview of the two actors at the Fox Studio.
Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox
The documentary covers the origins, history and curious stories behind the production along with a perceptive reading of the film.
The Cost of Living: Creating the Prowler
This conversation between director Carl Franklin and film noir historian Eddie Muller was recorded live onstage for a screening of 'Devil in a Blue Dress' at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago on August 17, 2018, as part of the Noir City Film Festival.
Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress'
Documentary about the use of 3-D technology in Inferno (1953) and the advent of CinemaScope, in 1953 in the film The Robe (1953).
A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D

A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."
Shadows of Suspense
Making of Moontide talking about the production of the movie.
Turning of the Tide: The Ill-Starred Making of Moontide
Documentary on the making of the film, from script to noir classic, produced by Steven Smith and the Film Noir Foundation.
Love Is a Roller Coaster: Woman on the Run Revisited

A documentary about the history of exploitation films that focuses on the careers of legendary producers David F. Friedman and Dan Sonney.
Mau Mau Sex Sex

A young woman (Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to the solution of decades-old crimes. When the authorities dismiss her, she takes matters into her own hands, ringing the doorbell of Hazel Reedy (Hunt), a lonely recluse who may or may not be the widow of America's most notorious serial killer. Their cross-generational confrontation, played out in real time, leads to an unexpected and shocking conclusion.