Double Lady - 
 Double Murder!
 A Second Novel by
Ken Simmons (All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2001)
Every decade Film Noir Movies like: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat(1981), and L.A. Confidential (1997) hit the big screen with enough force and  impact to ensure fame and money to their writers!

Laura - 1944

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During the 1940's and 50's James M. Cain, along with Cornell Woolrich, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett, created a form of writing that when adapted to the big screen became known as:
Film Noir -  A French phrase for "black film".

Many of the best noirs were novels before they were films with leading characters like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Dashiell Hammett's Thin Man ruled the writing world of the day.
The Theme:  Good men lured into crime by sultry women, possessed with pure evil and murder.

Directors like Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity), James Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), Fritz Lang (Clash by Night), Howard Hawkes (The Big Sleep), John Huston (The Asphalt Jungle), Raoul Walsh (Pursed), Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross), Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past), Otto Preminger (Angel Face) and Edward Dymtryk (Cross Fire) directed actors of the statue of Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, William Holden, Orson Welles, Fred McMurray, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Claude Rains and Robert Ryan in some of the best Black and White Films ever made.

Sultry screen sirens led these men to their ruin.  The likes of Barbara Stanwyck, Veronica Lake, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Lizabeth Scott, Gene Tierney, Jane Greer and Rita Hayworth ravaged the screen as they provided a ruinous end to men foolish enough to want love and acceptance from them.  They were evil women bent on destruction.
(Enjoy excerpts from my upcoming Novel)

Lizabeth Scott
Dead Reckoning - 1947

Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce - 1945