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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...

Gloria Grahame and Glenn Ford, Human Desire (Fritz Lang, 1954).  It is based on Émile Zola's 1890 novel La Bête humaine.  A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder... 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 Man, 1934  Sunset Boulevard , 1950  Noir Films , Laura , 1944   

Murder, My Sweet  is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytry, notable as the screen debut of author Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled, world-weary detective Philip Marlowe.  It was based on Chandler’s 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely.  Starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley.  Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to track down his formergirlfriend. He's also hired to accompany an effeminate playboy buy back some jewels. When the exchange results in the playboy's murder, Marlowe can't leave the case alone and soon discovers it's related to Malloy's. Ahe gets drawn deeper into a complex web of intrigue by a mysterious blonde (Claire Trevor), the detective finds his own life in increasing jeopardy. .  The film is laden with classic film noir features—moody black-and-white cinematography, shadows galore, two-timing women, and plenty of plot twists—and it retains the first-person narrative, s...

The French Connection, William Friedkin, 1971,  US  Starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frederic de Pasquale. 104 min, Film Neo Noir  The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name.  New York Detective "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner (Roy Scheider) chase a French heroin smuggler.  An urban crime thriller which won undeserved acclaim for its efficient but unremarkable elevat- ed-railway chase and its clumsy, showy emphasis on grainy, sordid realism. The performances are strong, although Hackman has done far better than this portrayal of a hard-nosed cop obsessively tracking down a narcotics ring in New York, using methods disapproved of by his superiors. The real problems, however, are that Friedkin's nervy, noisy, undisciplined pseudo-realism sits uneasily with his suspense motivated shock editing; and that compared to (say) Siegel's Dirty H...