Film Noir  (1941 - 1959) 
The Dark Side of the Movie Screen - [part 3]

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The Best of Hollywood throughout the 1940s and 1950s
Writers:  Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, etc.
Directors:  Billy Wilder, Edward Dmytryk, John Huston, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmak, etc.
Actors:  Alan Ladd, Robert Mitchum, Dan Duryea, Fred McMurray, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, etc.
Actresses:  Veronica Lake, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, Lauren Becall, Lana Turner, Barbara Stanwyck, etc.
Film Noir   Double Indemnity  Out of the Past    Femme Fatales   The Hollywood Ten   Film Noir Directors   The Killers & Criss Cross

The Lady From Shanghai 
Columbia - 1948 
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth
Raw Deal 
Reliance Pictures - 1948 
Dennis O'Keefe, Marsha Hunt
Sleep, My Love 
Triangle Productions - 1948 
Robert Cummings, Claudette Colbert
The Big Steal 
RKO - 1949 
Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum

The Set-Up 
RKO - 1949 
Robert Ryan
Where Danger Lives 
RKO - 1950 
Faith Domergue, Robert Mitchum,
 Claude Rains
Where the Sidewalk Ends 
Twentieth Century Fox - 1950 
Dana Andrews, Gary Merril 
Sudden Fear 
RKO - 1952 
Joan Crawford

The Big Heat 
Columbia - 1953 
Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford
Second Chance 
RKO - 1953 
Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell
Suddenly 
United Artists - 1954 
James Gleason, Sterling Hayden,
 Kim Charney,  Frank Sinatra
The Big Combo 
United Artists - 1955 
Cornel Wilde, Earl Holliman 

The Shanghi Gesture
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

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