For the first episode of Tipping My Fedora (TMF), Sergio is joined by crime fiction critic and historian, Barry Forshaw (www.barryforshaw.co.uk). They look at a selection of some of the home video releases on which Barry has worked, spanning 25 years of Film Noir.

Titles discussed, include:

• This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd. Available on Blu-ray from Eureka
• Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1949) featuring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea. Available on Blu-ray from Eureka
• Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, 1954) starring Ida Lupino (who also produced), Howard Duff and Steve Cochrane. Available on Blu-ray from Imprint
• The Scarface Mob (Phil Karlson, 1959/62) - the film that launched The Untouchables with Robert Stack. Available on Blu-ray from Arrow (US)
• Lady in a Cage (Walter Grauman, 1964) - a shocker in which rich invalid Olivia de Havilland gets stuck in an elevator and James Caan torments her. Available on Blu-ray from Imprint
• Madigan (Don Siegel, 1968) in which Richard Widmark's eponymous cop gets unglued when he meets his big boss, Henry Fonda. Available on Blu-ray from Indicator

We also discuss the politically incorrect 'Parker' novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), the fascism of Dirty Harry and Coppola's Godfather trilogy and the charges of "nepo baby" casting that affected the final instalment.

Barry is the editor of the Crime Time online journal and his books include: Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films, and his series on Noir, including: Brit Noir, American Noir, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir and Historical Noir (click here for further details).

** Listen out for an easter egg in which we refer in passing to a film that we will be discussing in the podcast dropping on 18 November.