Favorite Noir Film?

[Lethe]

The Maltese Falcon?
The Big Sleep?
The Third Man?
Touch of Evil?
Laura?

Alternately, if you don't like noir films what's your favorite 1940's film? (besides Looney Tunes!)

[Richard Steele]

1. Rififi.

I remain terribly impressed by the choice
to show that long silent burglary scene
without a soundtrack. It was a brilliant gamble,
and it works so well.

[bikebloke]

22. My choice, too.

Also, Bob le Flambeur.
Another heist film.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Gaslight is kind of fun

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/

[Lethe]

5. i guess that's where they get the term

"gaslighting" from

?

i have to check it out

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. Yes, as a matter of fact it is.

Let me know what you think. :hi:

[kentauros]

3. White Heat

"Top of the world, Ma!" :D

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. Double Indemnity

Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G Robinson

Murder, betrayal, money, lust

What could be more entertaining?

[insanity]

21. yep

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Chinatown.

But if you're restricting it to "true" black-and-white noir, I'd go with Double Indemnity or Out of the Past.

[Tom Kitten]

8. Too many!

"Detour", "The Narrow Margin", "Criss-Cross", "Murder My Sweet", "The Woman In The Window", "Dark Passage"...I could go on and on,I love film noir!

[MilesColtrane]

9. "The Third Man"

It could be the best movie ever made.

[seaker]

10. Shadow of a Doubt

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[Lost in CT]

11. The Maltese Falcon is close to a perfect film. nt

[Hanse]

12. Night of the Hunter.

:thumbsup:

[jobycom]

13. Real Noir? The Big Sleep. New-ish Noir? Brick.

For no reason at all I like The Big Sleep more than Maltese Falcon. I like the original D.O.A., too, but it's been a long time, so I don't remember it perfectly.

Out of new Noir-influenced films, I like a lesser-known film called "Brick," with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Other times I would say "Blood Simple," the first Coen Brothers film.

And for spoofs, of course, The Big Lebowski is the greatest.

[sarge43]

14. Murder My Sweet

Some other beloved 40's movies

Notorious

Oxbow Incident

Red River

[Steerpike]

15. Panic in the Streets

With Richard Widmark, Jack Palance (in his first role), Paul Douglas and Zero Mostel. Story involves plague infected gangster in New Orleans. The film won an Acadamy Award for it's writing. Directed by Elia Kaza.

[WinkyDink]

16. "Double Indemnity."

[blueraven95]

17. are you just talking about traditional film noir

or are you including neo noir or future noir in the mix?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

18. Sunset Blvd.

I'm a big noir fan, but I think that's my favorite. One of my favorite movies of any genre actually...

[BurtWorm]

19. Asphalt Jungle

I could watch it over and over and over. It's a perfect movie.

[LynneSin]

20. The Last Seduction - Brilliant movie robbed at the Oscars

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110308/

Because it aired once on, I believe, HBO, the movie was not qualified to be nominated for an Oscar. But Linda Fiorentino was deliciously evil as Bridge aka Wendy Kroy. Peter Burg and Bill Pullman were perfectly cast as her stooges. The plot was amazingly done and in the end you always know the bad bitch is going to win.

[Rob H.]

23. 'The Maltese Falcon'

mainly because, with the exception of one scene in the book that didn't appear in the movie, that movie is the book.

And like jobycom said upthread, Brick is a great new noir movie. The idea of setting a noir film (complete with classic-noir-style dialog) in a high school might sound strange at first, but it works incredibly well.

[schmuls]

24. Where The Sidewalk Ends, with Charleton Heston (I know) and

Lizabeth Scott, with her sexy deep voice.