Welcome to the world of Film Noir. It’s a place where the streets are painted in shadows darker than a killer’s soul, where deception hides around every corner, and a kiss can be deadlier than any bullet. These are some of the principles that Noir preaches, and in a period of time that stretched from the early fourties to the late fifties a wave of these hardboiled and stylish crime dramas would come to take on the stranglehold of the Production Code, and in so doing reshape the cinematic landscape forever. This is a list of some of my personal favorite Noirs, a work in progress that will be modified every now and again, and...

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