Preface
“The flash of the neon light through the Venetian blinds made her lips glow as she sat down. The next flash lit up just her eyes as she put the envelope of money on the desk. I didn’t count it. I didn’t really care. Those eyes were enough, even though I knew I couldn’t trust them.”
This book is for lovers of film noir, be they film fans, mystery lovers, filmmakers or film studies students and scholars. The fascinating facts behind how the classic film noir movies were actually made – beginning with the mystery novel base material, the studio executives’ and staff writers’ input, through the assigned directors and talented contract cinematographers’ imagery – reveal much about why both the studios and audiences loved them and why they ...
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