A barber blackmails his wife's lover to get into dry cleaning; Deakins in black and white.
Live action and animation in one noir Los Angeles; Bugs and Mickey on screen together.
A press agent and a gossip columnist in the meanest New York ever filmed.
Robert Mitchum as a preacher with LOVE and HATE on his knuckles hunting two children downriver.
The three-minute opening crane shot across the Mexican border and Welles as a corrupt cop.
Robert Mitchum cannot escape a woman or a past; the noir with the best cigarette lighting.
A dead screenwriter narrates from a pool; Gloria Swanson is ready for her close-up.
Bogart as Sam Spade and 'the stuff that dreams are made of'; the first film noir.
Harry Lime in the sewers of occupied Vienna, the zither theme and the Ferris wheel speech.
An insurance salesman and a bored wife plan the perfect murder; Wilder and Chandler write the noir rulebook.
Bogart and Bacall in a Chandler plot so tangled even the author could not say who killed the chauffeur.
Watch the classic film Killer's Kiss directed by Stanley Kubrick
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