It's Hardly Noir (SPOILER)


More of a whodunit and it has a happy ending! Great noirish lighting but that's not enough. If the cop was the central character instead of Frankie it would have been very noir.

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I agree.

And the Frankie character was two-dimensional, quite a dull lead character I thought...

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I do too. Wasn't close in my opinion.

Leading the blind squirrels of inquiry to the lost nuts of illumination.

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I don't think it's generally considered noir by most "experts"; I'm pretty sure it came out a few months before 'The Maltese Falcon', which many consider the starting point of the classic noir era. But some of those same experts call it an important predecessor. I'd agree with that assessment.

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Lots of ignorant people posting.

Of course it's a film noir--besides the lighting, it has two common film noir themes, the 1) innocent man framed for murder 2) the untrustworthy, duplicitous female.

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Hell,yeah--it's a noir---look at those wonderfully lit interrogation scenes that would come to be a hallmark of noir, the creepiness of the villain, and the question of whether the so-called hero actually did it or not,dark shadows that hide secrets, all that and more---that's a straight-up noir if there ever was one. Just saw it on the MOVIES chaneel again---well worth catching it if you love you some real noir, like I do.

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I agree this is "Noir".

The lighting.
The creepy villain.
The Frame-Up.
The Femme Fatal.

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