My Name Is Julia Ross

"My Name Is Julia Ross" (1945) is a Columbia Pictures noir thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Joseph H. Lewis shot it in under ten days on a shoestring budget — and critics called it one of the year's best B-pictures. Nina Foch carries every scene.

Julia Ross arrives in London short on money and takes a job as a live-in secretary for a wealthy widow. Two days later she wakes up in a different house, wearing clothes she does not own, and everyone around her is using a different name. No one explains why. The film's real achievement is how much dread Lewis extracts from that single mystery without wasting a minute. Stream "My Name Is Julia Ross" (1945) online on iFILM.