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2. Stranger on the Third Floor - Wikipedia

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   Stranger on the Third Floor is often cited as the first "true" film noir of the classic period (1940–1959), [3] [4] [5] though other films that fit the genre such as Rebecca and They Drive by Night were released earlier. Nonetheless, it has many of the hallmarks of film noir: an urban setting, heavy shadows, diagonal lines, voice-over ...

3. Lady Killer (1937 film) - Wikipedia

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   Lady Killer (French: Gueule d'amour) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin and Marguerite Deval.It has been classified as both a film noir [1] [2] and an entry into the poetic realist group of films of the late 1930s.

4. 1930s in film - Wikipedia

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   Many full-length films were produced in the 1930s. Sound films ("talkies") were a global phenomenon by the early 1930s. Advances in color film included Technicolor and Kodachrome. The year 1930 is the start of "the golden age of Hollywood", which through at least the 1940s. The studio system was at its height in

5. Blind Alley (film) - Wikipedia

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   Blind Alley is a 1939 American film noir crime film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak. The film was adapted from the Broadway play of the same name by James Warwick. Columbia Pictures remade the film as The Dark Past in 1948, with William Holden and Lee J. Cobb.

6. List of crime films of the 1930s - Wikipedia

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   1930: The Big House: George W. Hill: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery: United States: Prison film [1] Born Reckless: John Ford, Andrew Bennison: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, Lee Tracy: United States [2] The Cat Creeps: Rupert Julian, John Willard: Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton: United States [3] The ...

7. List of film noir titles - Wikipedia

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   Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.

8. Thunderbolt (1929 film) - Wikipedia

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   Thunderbolt (also released as At The Gates of Death) is a 1929 American pre-Code proto-noir film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer. It tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his ...

9. Film noir - Wikipedia

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   Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a style of Hollywood crime dramas that emphasizes cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German expressionist ...