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Sophienoire — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 10:46 PM)
all the film noirs i watched since i made this thread:
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Film-Noir/film-noirs-i-watched-recently-3588188/
1.
Riff-Raff
(Ted Tetzlaff, 1947) 7/10
A plane takes off from Peru in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil location maps; everyone who is after them must deal with Dan Hammer - combination private eye, agent, and con man who can fix anything for a fee. Nightclub singer Maxine is on Hammer's side… or is she? The rest is lighthearted, white-suited tropical intrigue.
stars: Pat O’Brien, Anne Jeffreys, Walter Slezak, Percy Kilbride, Jerome Cowan
writer: Martin Rackin
2.
Night Editor
(Henry Levin, 1946) 6/10
Crane Stewart, the editor of the New York Star, while playing poker with his friends, tells a story about a cop involved in a murder investigation. In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant Tony Cochrane, a family man who cheats on his wife with socialite femme fatale Jill Merrill. Cochrane and the woman, who is also cheating on her husband, witness a man bludgeoning his girlfriend to death with a tire iron while the couple is parked at "lovers lane" by the beach. The two can't report the crime without revealing their cheating, a dilemma which eventually leads to bigger troubles. Meanwhile, Cochrane must investigate the killing but is not able to tell anyone he witnessed the crime.
stars: William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell
writer: Harold Jacob Smith | orig. story: Scott Littleton
3.
Love from a Stranger
(Richard Whorf, 1947) 6/10
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiancé Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is: will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste?
stars: John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, John Howard, Isobel Elsom
writer: Philip MacDonald | orig. play: Frank Vosper | orig. short story: Agatha Christie ("Philomel Cottage")
4.
The Garment Jungle
(Vincent Sherman, 1957) 6/10
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
stars: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia
writer: Harry Kleiner
5.
Nocturne
(Edward L. Marin, 1946) 5/10
Police detective Joe Warne investigates the shooting of composer Keith Vincent. Evidence points to suicide and that is the official verdict, but Joe doesn't buy it and obsessively keeps looking, tracking down one discarded lover after another, despite being ordered off the case.
stars: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell
writer: Jonathan Latimer | orig. story: Rowland Brown, Frank Fenton
6.
Her Kind of Man
(Frederick de Cordova, 1946) 5/10
A nightclub singer falls in love with a ne'erdowell gambler. When he kills a fellow gambler, he goes on the lam to his sister, a nightclub owner in Florida while she goes to New York. It's there she meets a newspaper reporter and they begin a romantic relationship… until the gambler reenters her life and claims her back.
stars: Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, George Tobias
writer: Gordon Kahn, Leopold Atlas | orig. story: Charles Hoffman, James V. Kern
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MissMargoChanning — 6 months ago(September 18, 2025 10:55 PM)
The Hitchhiker!
Talman was terrific in this!
I only remember him as Hamilton Burger from Perry Mason.
As the LA prosecutor, he was always fun to watch in that!
This was truly some of his finest work!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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MissMargoChanning — 6 months ago(September 19, 2025 01:23 PM)
I loved the use of the song too. It fit perfectly.
Perry Mason is pretty much noir for that matter. I watch it almost each morning while on the treadmill.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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HollyJollyHanukka — 6 months ago(September 20, 2025 02:21 AM)
I do. It’s not really believable, but it’s got such a good cast and I like how it ends. Agnes Moorehead plays such a great bitch.
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Sophienoire — 6 months ago(September 19, 2025 08:24 PM)
a film noir is a highly stylised genre of American crime dramas from the 1940s and 1950s, characterized by dark, cynical themes, morally ambiguous characters like the "femme fatale" and doomed anti-heroes, complex plots with unhappy endings, and a distinctive visual style featuring stark lighting, deep shadows, and off-balance camera angles, all rooted in German Expressionism and American hard-boiled fiction. the term, which means "black film" in French, refers to the genre's dark mood and visual elements.
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Sophienoire — 6 months ago(September 19, 2025 08:29 PM)
Abandoned
(Joseph M. Newman, 1949) 6/10 rewatch
An expose of the baby-profiteering racket as told through the story of an unwed mother whose family and friends start an investigation as to the whereabouts of her baby. This leads to and through an organized gang led by a society matron. The girl is found dead, and while it looks like a suicide, the girl's sister and a newspaper reporter think it is murder.
stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Raymond Burr, Marjorie Rambeau, Jeanette Nolan
writer: Irwin Gielgud, William Bowers | orig. story: Irwin Gielgud
https://letterboxd.com/film/abandoned/
https://mubi.com/en/de/films/abandoned-1949
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041084/reference/
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NZer — 6 months ago(September 19, 2025 09:11 PM)
Kiss Me Deadly. Brilliant.
Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, and Wesley Addy. It also features Maxine Cooper and Cloris Leachman appearing in their feature film debuts. The film follows a private investigator in Los Angeles who becomes embroiled in a complex mystery after picking up a female hitchhiker. -
HollyJollyHanukka — 6 months ago(September 21, 2025 02:43 PM)
@Sophienoire
Have you seen Muderers Among Us (1946)? It’s a German film originally titled Die Mörder sind unter uns. Although Susanne Wallner looks pretty healthy for a concentration camp survivor, it’s a really good story. Cinematography is grim and grimy, showing just how ugly post WWII Germany looked. The American version is in German with English subtitles.
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Sophienoire — 6 months ago(September 21, 2025 05:43 PM)
i have seen this, yes. in fact, i remember it was one of the very first classic films i've ever seen in my life and therefore has a special place in my heart. i rewatched it then last year and it hold up just well. the film was shot on location in the streets of Berlin with all these ruins and destroyed buildings and streets being all real which makes it one of the most realistic anti/war films ever put on film. Hildegard Knef became a huge German film star afterwards, too.
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Sophienoire — 6 months ago(September 21, 2025 05:59 PM)
Dark Passage
(Delmer Daves, 1947) 8/10 rewatch
Vincent Parry has just escaped from prison after being locked up for a crime he did not commit - murdering his wife. On the outside, Vincent finds that his face is betraying him, literally, so he finds a plastic surgery to give him new features. After getting a ride out of town from a stranger, Vincent crosses paths with a young woman who lets him stay in her apartment while he heals and continues to try and clear his name.
stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead, Clifton Young
writer: Delmer Daves | orig. novel: David Goodis
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
(Peter Godfrey, 1947) 7/10 rewatch
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn’t tell her he’s already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
stars: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Ann Carter
writer: Thomas Job | orig. play: Marguerite Veiller
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