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Payroll is a 1961 British neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, and Billie Whitelaw. [1] The screenplay by George Baxt was adapted from Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel of the same name.
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.
Fans of TCM know him as the host of that network’s weekly series all about film noir, retro-stylish Hollywood crime drama with cynical guys, dangerous dames, risky liaisons and dark, dirty deeds.
Beyond the trenchcoat [clarification needed] and film noir, spy films expanded with worldly settings and hi-tech gadgets, such as the James Bond films Dr. No (1962) or Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965). This Spy mania extended throughout the world with many countries notably Italy and Spain producing many of their own fantastical spy ...
Gunman in the Streets (Canadian title Gangster at Bay) is a French/US-produced 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Dane Clark and Simone Signoret. Unreleased for theatrical screening in the US, the film was titled Time Running Out for its US television syndication from 1963.
While the inceptive noir, Stranger on the Third Floor, was a B picture directed by a virtual unknown, many of the films noir still remembered were A-list productions by well-known film makers. Debuting as a director with The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston followed with Key Largo (1948) and The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
Something Wild is a 1961 American neo noir [3] psychological thriller film directed by Jack Garfein, [4] [5] and starring his then wife Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, and Mildred Dunnock. [6] It follows a young New York City college student who, after being brutally raped, is taken in and held captive by a mechanic who witnessed her suicide ...
Lady in the Lake, a seven-part miniseries premiering on July 19, takes the shape of a neo-noir whodunit. But hidden within that shadowy aesthetic is, among other compelling themes, an ambitious ...