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Too Late To Be Considered a Noir Film? Or... A Film Noir?

posted 7 years ago by cultfilmfreaksdotcom
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Paul Schrader said that Orson Welles's Touch of Evil was the last Noir, circa 1958. Guess it was, or if not since that's an opinion, and a good one... that Film Noir ended that year, or at least before 1960 rolled in.

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[–] zhu_bernard 7 years ago

Schrader was right, Touch of evil is the last wave of the dark. I still see that Underworld USA bears a lot of film noir charactoristics and Fuller spilled some final drops of the genre. Great movie(s).

[–] liscarkat (16543) 4 years ago

Film noir flourished from the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s, but it never ended.

[–] TheArgentinian (6445) 4 months ago

it looks like a 40s or 50s film.