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Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell in Fallen Angel (1945),  a film noir directed by Otto Preminger.  Starring Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, and Linda Darnell.  An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn’t interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle. Similar Posts :  Key Largo , 1948 The Asphalt Jungle, 1950  In the Lonely Place, 1950  Gene Tierney - Leading Lady Witness for the Prosecution, 1957  The Big Sleep , 1946 Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950  The Big Heat, 1953 To Have and Have Not, 1944 Double Indemnity , 1944  The Night of the Hunter, 1955   The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955 Era...

Phantom Lady is a 1944 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak. The film was Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and was based on the novel of the same name written by Cornell Woolrich but published under the pseudonym William Irish. Starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, and Alan Curtis. A devoted secretary ( Ella Raines ) risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss ( Alan Curtis) didn't murder his selfish wife .  Phantom Lady features an incapacitated male, leaving a strong female lead to take a determining role in the action of the story — fairly unusual for 1944. Ella Raines turns vamp, and has her femininity and internal strength quoshed, as she plays dangerous on the streets, the concert hall, on bars and the shadows of the " psychopathic" killer who is revealed by his weaknesses and mistakes. One of the most characteristic moments of the film is the involvement of the protagonist with Elisha Cooke Jnr, who plays a ver...

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)  directed by Dick Richards is a film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1940 crime novel by the same name. Raymond Chandler wrote many crime novels that were adapted into film noir and neo-noir films, including  The Big Sleep (1946.) Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer. Then he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. Marlowe embroiling the hard-boiled gumshoe in a plot which involves blackmail, murder, drugs and double cross. The femme fatale of this story is Helen Grayle, the wife of a wealthy judge. Grayle, played by white actress Charlotte Rampling, is not the main character of this film but seems to be the key drivin...

John Alton was an American cinematographer. He made is feature film debut in 1927 with The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. Alton won an Academy Award for cinematography of An American in Paris, becoming the first Hungarian-born person to win it. Alton is most famous for  films noir style of the classic period . "But when I'd take most any director aside and ask him to sit down with me, he'd look at me as if I were crazy. He'd say, 'I've never sat down with a cameraman to talk about these things. What do you mean? You just pump a lot of light in!' I'd say 'You don't 'pump' light into a scene. That light has to tell something. There's a meaning, and it establishes a mood.' That was the difference between my pictures and some of the others: [in mine], each mood was different. The mood had to be done with lighting. That's my profession — not the lighting and how to light, but bringing out the mood."  ...

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in “The Blue Dahlia,” 1946, photo courtesy Photofest. The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 American Film Noir, directed by George Marshall, based on an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler.  A WWII veteran (Alan Ladd) is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger (Veronica Lake).  #noirmovies #noirfilms #filmlovers #noirfilm #noirlovers #filmnoir #noir_shots #movielovers This Gun of Hire  Key Largo , 1948 The Asphalt Jungle, 1950  In the Lonely Place, 1950  Gene Tierney - Leading Lady Witness for the Prosecution, 1957  The Big Sleep , 1946 Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950  The Big Heat, 1953 To Have and Have Not, 1944 Double Indemnity , 1944  The Night of the Hunter, 1955   The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955 Eraserhead, 1977  Humphrey Bogart the tough guy  Fallen Angel , 1945  The Killing , 1956  T he Thin ...

Gene Tierney on the set of The Shanghai Gesture, 1941, US Director : Josef von Sternberg, 1h 39min - Drama, Thriller, Mystery A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint. This film was set in a gambling hall instead of a brothel like in the play and Gene Tierney was amazing as Poppy...

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in a scene from The Big Sleep .  How many beautiful femme fatales parade in front of our ecstatically eyes?   How many temptations does the immovable hard Marlowe come face to face with?  How many dark intrigues and machinations entangle our minds?  How many are killed and by whom?  Surely the avalanche of deaths of so many involved people like Harry Jones, Joe Brody, Eddie Mars, Carol Lundgren, Lash Canino, Owen Taylor and Sean Regan, leaves us helpless in a maze...  Maybe that's the beauty and magic of the movie after all!  While its plot has been criticised as 'cryptic' and 'confusing, the movie is about the process of a criminal investigation, not its results.results.The fact that your attention has to race to keep up with Marlowe's mind is a major part of the film's appeal. Instead of just watching the detective, you become a detective yourself.  The closer you are to Marlowe's shadow, the d...