1Noir Comes To Light
“Don’t be so sure I’m as crooked as I’m supposed to be.”
(The Maltese Falcon)
Figure 1.1 Trailer for The Petrified Forest
Warner Bros, 1936
“It’s funny that some writers about pictures discovered Film Noir. I must tell you, I never heard of it until some years later.”
(Andre de Toth, director of Pitfall)1
“When I was making these damn pictures, I never knew about Film Noir.”
(Samuel Fuller, director of Pick-Up on South Street)2
The term “film noir” was created by the French to describe certain American crime movies made during the 1940s that didn’t make their way to France until after the end of the Second World War. ...
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