
After many long hours, this is my tribute to my favorite genre, to the dark shadows and the profound despair of the soul. I tried to include as many as I could get my hands on, though there are obviously some that I overlooked, some accidently (the absence of "The Sweet Smell of Success" and "White Heat" are the most obvious and shameful), some purposefully (save Sam Fuller's 1964 pulp masterpiece "The Naked Kiss," I decided to stay strictly within the 18-year period between 1940 and 1958, so absolutely no neo-noirs like "Chinatown", and even more importantly, absolutely no colors). Song: "Angel" by Massive Attack This video is dedicated to two awesome women: The first is my friend Cecilia Ossenbeck, my partner in crime in the adventures of cinema. The second is to noir icon Ann Savage, who died yesterday. If you like this, check out Eddie Muller's original short film: www.youtube.com And now, the noirs: THE LETTER (1940, William Wyler. Bette Davis) THE MALTESE FALCON (1941, John Huston. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor) SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943, Alfred Hitchcock. Joseph Cotten) DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944, Billy Wilder. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray) MURDER, MY SWEET (1944, Edward Dmytryk. Dick Powell) SCARLET STREET (1945, Fritz Lang. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett) LAURA (1945, Otto Preminger. Gene Tierney) DETOUR (1945, Edgar G. Ulhmer. Ann Savage) NOTORIOUS (1946, Alfred Hitchcock. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman) GILDA (1946, Charles Vidor. Rita Hayworth) THE KILLERS (1946 <b>...</b>
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