Far from Home: Three Noirs by Jacques Tourneur (opens in new tab)

During the evening rush on a busy Los Angeles boulevard, a man steps into a news-vendor’s stall and scans the out-of-town papers section, where journals offer balm for homesick travelers and transplants. But his hometown, Evanston, Illinois, is missing—no call for it, the vendor says dismissively, before switching on the lights against the deepening dusk. The stranger flinches in the sudden glare, his reaction underscored by a sharp plink of strings on the soundtrack. He warily eyes a police ...