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Apr 1, 2024 · The post was all about the best 1950s film noir movies. Which 1950s film noir is your favorite? Other posts you might like: 30 Best Barbara Stanwyck Movies: Her Top Classic Films. 30 Top Movies of Cary Grant Ranked Best to Worst. 27 Best Comedy Movies 1940s - Find Your New Favorite Classic! Romantic Classics | The Best Black and White Romance ...
Detour Free – Edgar Ulmer’s cult classic noir film shot in 6 days. (1945) D.O.A. — Free — Rudolph Maté’s classic noir film. Called “one of the most accomplished, innovative, and downright twisted entrants to the film noir genre.” (1950) The Hitch-Hiker — Free – The first noir film made by a woman noir direc ...
Nov 19, 2018 · The Prowler (1951) – source: United Artists. The ever-prolific screenwriter Dalton Trumbo churned out this low-grade beauty while he was on The Hollywood Blacklist, no less. In an opening title sequence doubling as exposition, a peeping “phantom” looks in on a scandalized woman ( Evelyn Keyes) who screams to high heaven.
Apr 15, 2015 · They can cause danger to the male protagonist. The 1940s film noir femme fatale was sexually adventurous and unmarried. At that point in history, she was viewed negatively by society. As Susan Morrison explains about 1940s attitudes, “the ideological necessity of punishing the sexually independent woman seems oppressive and unnecessarily ...
95 Metascore. A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr.
