Hot days...and sultry summer nights bring to mind black and white movies, popcorn, and frosted glasses of ice tea. Watch some vintage crime this summer -
Fim Noir Favorites
Movie - The Letter (1940)
Directed by William Wyler
Based on the play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham
Movie - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Directed by John Huston
Based on a book of the same name by Dashiell Hammett
Movie - Casablanca (1942)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burrnett
Movie - Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Based on the story of the same name by Gorden McDonell
Movie - Double Indemnity (1944)
Directed by Billy Wilder
Based on a book of the same name James M. Cain
Movie - Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Based on the book Farwell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Movie - Detour (1945)
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Based on a story of the same name by Martin Goldsmith
Movie - Mildred Pierce (1945)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Based on the book of the same name by James M. Cain
Movie - The Spiral Staircase (1945)
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Based on the book Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White
Movie - The Big Sleep (1946)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Based on the book of the same name by Raymond Chandler
Movie - The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Directed by George Marshall
Screenplay by Raymond Chandler
Movie - The Killers (1946)
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Based on the story "A Man Alone" by Ernest Hemingway
Movie - Notorious (1956)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Ben Hecht based on the story "The Song of the Dragon" by John Taintor Foote
Movie - The Third Man (1946)
Directed by Carol Reed
Based on a story of the same name by Graham Greene
Movie - Crossfire (1947)
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Based on the book The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks
Movie - Out of the Past (1947)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Based on the book Build My Gallows High by Geoffrey Homes aka Daniel Mainwaring
Movie - The Big Clock (1948)
Directed by John Farrow
Based on the book of the same name by Kenneth Fearing
Movie - Key Largo (1948)
Directed by John Huston
Based on a play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson
Movie - Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Based on a radio play by Lucille Fletcher
Movie - Criss Cross (1949)
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Based on the book the same name by Don Tracy
Movie - White Heat (1949)
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Based on a story of the same name by Virginia Kellogg
Movie - The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Directed by John Huston
Based on the book of the same name by W. R. Burnett
Movie - The Big Heat (1953)
Directed by Fritz Lang
Screenplay by Sydney Boehm based on a serial by William P. McGivern
Movie - Niagra (1953)
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Movie - Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Based on the book of the same name by Mickey Spillane
Movie - The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Directed by Charles Laughton
Based on the book of the same name by Davis Grubb
Movie - The Killing (1956)
Written and Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Movie - Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Directed by Robert Wise
Based on the book of the same name by William P. McGivern
Great post. Don't forget "Nightfall" (1956), directed by Jacques Tourneur, based on the novel of the same name by David Goodis, and "The Grifters" (1990), directed by Stephen Frears, based on the novel of the same name by Jim Thompson.
ReplyDelete--Mike Dennis
Las Vegas
Would you classify The Grifters as Neo Noir? I will have to check it out..Thanks for the suggestions.
ReplyDeleteSearcher--"The Grifters" would probably be Neo Noir, but only because it was released in 1990, and is in color. The Jim Thompson novel was published in 1963, and could easily have been filmed back then in black & white.
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