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O'Brien followed this with a number of important roles, including the second lead in the musical crime film Pete Kelly's Blues, the lead in the dystopian political movie 1984 and the noir A Cry in the Night (1956), co-lead in the World War II drama D-Day the Sixth of June and the lead in the comedy The Girl Can't Help It, [4] all in 1956.
The movie opens with the assassination of a man of unknown identity. A team of three CIA officers, including rookie Jack Chen (), watch through surveillance as an assassin named Fiona Birch (Marit Thoresen) enters the man's heavily guarded apartment suite and, after having sex with him, kills him by breaking his spine with her bare hands during a massage.
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.
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In Singapore, the film's producers initially decided to release a cut version with an NC-16 rating, but a public outcry stating that the producers of the film were underestimating censorship standards in the country (the film was released uncut in Hong Kong and Taiwan) prompted them to eventually release the uncut version with an R-21 rating.
In his book Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir, Robert Barton Palmer claimed "perhaps the most popular genre in the 1990s, the so-called erotic thriller [...] is a direct descendant of the classic film noir". [6] Many films of the 1960s and 70s also provocatively mixed noir themes with softcore sex, erotic fantasy, and voyeurism. [7]
The Chinese Ring: William Beaudine ... Film noir: Eagle-Lion: That Hagen Girl: Peter Godfrey: ... Edmond O'Brien: Film noir: Universal; Became TV series: Web of ...
In the film, Veronica (Ryder), the fourth member of the group, strikes up an unlikely romance with the rebellious new kid, J.D. (Slater). But things take a dark turn when he starts killing the ...