Thanks to Richard Fleischer's Trapped, Lloyd Bridges got the chance to shine in a starring role as unregenerate slimeball Tris Stewart, among the most amoral self-centered leads in noir.
Hitchcock's motif of treacherous toying with filmgoers is intriguing to spot in his early silent-to-talkie thrillers, Blackmail and Murder!
Jacques Rivette's first French New Wave film, Paris nous appartient, is infused with the look and feel of Hollywood's more paranoid, conspiratorial and apocalyptic films noir.
This professional seen-it-all flatfoot believes he can orchestrate his way out of situations where a thousand fools have floundered.
Whenever this movie threatens to get sexy or implies nudity, the story hastily goes back to two-fisted action.
Why was Henri-Georges Clouzot's film noir Le Corbeau banned by the French film industry?
Under the lens of cultural and historical context, as well as understanding the reflective nature of popular culture, it's hard not to read this film as a cautionary tale about the limitations of isolationism.
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