Film noir productions generally are associated with dark settings, either because action takes place at night or in unlit rooms, where street light creeps through Venetian blinds and struggles all the way to hit the protagonists on the set. Originally, such an outcome on the set in part was caused by filming conditions during wartime, […]
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I Died a Million Times: Gangster Noir in Midcentury America by Robert Miklitsch (2021)
In his current title author Robert Miklitsch goes on a long excursion to introduce several classic 1950s movies to identify and, in a way, separate the gangster films of that period from the films noir. As not every gangster movie automatically was a film noir, neither did all contemporary noirs feature one or more gangsters. […]