Essential Noir viewing: "The Girl Hunt Ballad" number in "The Bandwagon" - Fred Astaire does Noire! See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuJxYmJlEHY "The Killing" - Stanley Kubrick does Noire: "Open the garage door, Hal!" "The Big Combo" - The camera work is so Noire your eyes will bleed! Plus Mr Big's great sermon on Hate! "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" - Kirk Douglas's first acting job and he almost steals the whole movie from Barbara Stanwyck! Free at the Internet Film Noire site http://www.archive.org/details/Film_Noir "Quicksand" aka "Andy Hardy goes to Hell" - Mickey Rooney vs. Peter Lorre and Jimmy Cagney's big sister. Also on-line as above. "Detour" - film an archetypal Film Noire on an Ed Wood budget! The original voice-over introduction from the loser caught in Fate's Web Of Doom.
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"The Girl Hunt Ballad" number in "The Bandwagon" - Fred Astaire does Noire! See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuJxYmJlEHY
"The Killing" - Stanley Kubrick does Noire: "Open the garage door, Hal!"
"The Big Combo" - The camera work is so Noire your eyes will bleed! Plus Mr Big's great sermon on Hate!
"The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" - Kirk Douglas's first acting job and he almost steals the whole movie from Barbara Stanwyck! Free at the Internet Film Noire site http://www.archive.org/details/Film_Noir
"Quicksand" aka "Andy Hardy goes to Hell" - Mickey Rooney vs. Peter Lorre and Jimmy Cagney's big sister. Also on-line as above.
"Detour" - film an archetypal Film Noire on an Ed Wood budget! The original voice-over introduction from the loser caught in Fate's Web Of Doom.