Film noir thrived predominantly in Hollywood crime films in the early post World War II years, as men were returning from the military to their lives at home, and it expresses the anxiety that many men felt about being displaced as workers, boyfriends, husbands and fathers during wartime.
Taste of Cinema 2019. But when Mundson double crosses some Germans running a secret cartel, he fakes his own death and disappears. The protagonists of these film are men who are often in love with and yet betrayed by beautiful women and they often face the choice between a fair haired ‘good’ woman and a dark haired, sultry ‘femme fatale’ who is likely to lead them astray down the wrong path (which is the path that they take, for the most part). All rights reserved. This was especially true about the 1940s and 1950s, when World War II plus post-war events (notably during the earlier years of the Cold War) had so profoundly affected the everyday lives of people around the globe. Into Reed’s apartment bursts her rich and jealous lover, Claude Mazard and after a brief struggle with Wanley, Mazard is killed. Bannister serves as his attorney but, suspecting Michael is in love with his wife, has decided to lose the case. Directed by Raoul Walsh, the film features memorable performances by Cagney and noir regular Edmund O’Brien.Another veteran of 1930’s gangster films, Edward G. Robinson, was featured in Key Largo along with Humphrey Bogart, one of the definitive noir actors, and Lauren Bacall.
Reed and Wanley bury the body in the country but leave a number of incriminating clues, some of which come to light when Wanley is called in to consult on the crime by his D.A. A meditation on heroes and heroism, Key Largo is a gritty film that, like many of director John Huston’s best works, shows people at their worst and best during times of extreme stress and difficult circumstances. Privacy Policy (http://www.tasteofcinema.com/privacy-notice-and-cookies/) Theme by Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie ListsWhat is Film Noir? When Joan Crawford left MGM and came to Warners, this was her initial outing as star (Bette Davis famously turned down the part before her) and it was an enormous success. McPherson is investigating her brutal murder, which includes suspects Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), Laura’s mentor, her on again-off again fiancee Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price) and Laura’s Aunt, Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson), who appears to have an unusual interest in Shelby. Well, you’ll have to see it yourself, but suffice it to say that Laura has as many twists and turns as most of the film noir of the period, and perhaps a few more. Welles is ‘Irish’ Mike O’Hara, a sailor who meets beautiful Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) in New York and, attracted to her, agrees to sign on as a hand on the yacht that she is sailing around the world on with her husband, famed lawyer Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane). This then is a list of the 15 essential films that one must be familiar with in order to understand the early, ‘classic’ period of film noir that thrived from 1940 to 1949.White Heat is part film noir, part gangster film, with James Cagney as criminal ringleader Cody Jarrett.
It is a term coined in French, meaning literally ‘black film’ that is used to define a genre, or possibly just a subset of the genre of the thriller. As with most of the films of this era, the story is told by Welles in flashback with a voice over.
With its emphasis on Freudian psychological explanations for criminal behavior, The Woman in the Window was a ground breaker and certainly is one of the most interesting films from the classic noir period.Warner Brothers, with its emphasis on crime and social problem films, was one of the earliest and most successful studios to make noir films. This includes movies made in the 1940s as well as movies that were made in the 1950s. One night in Laura’s apartment, McPherson drinks himself into a stupor while looking at Laura’s portrait only to fall asleep and wake up to…surprise! This anxiety is expressed in film noir – particularly the early film noir of the 1940’s that this list will focus on – as a sense of disorientation, confusion and distrust, as well as a sense of entrapment in a nightmare world that has gone out of control.
Welles used images of shattering glass and distorted mirrors to reflect the tragic, destructive relationships between the three characters. The situation becomes even worse for Wanley when Reed begins to be blackmailed by crooked ex-cop Heidt (Dan Duryea, a frequent noir bad buy and character actor).
Veda eventually despises the plebeian way her mother makes a living and seems to be in love with Monte, who – in the opening scene of the film – is shot to death at Mildred’s beachfront home. Johnny becomes Mundson’s right hand man, but their relationship is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a beautiful young wife, Gilda, whom Farrell has known in the past and purports to despise. Although Key Largo has a sense of optimism at the end that is unusual for a film noir, it has the bleak tone and problematic characters that are typical of the genre.
Cody confesses to a lesser crime in order to get a shorter prison stretch; in prison he is befriended by Hank Fallon (Edmund O’Brien) an undercover agent trying to find out who is laundering Cody’s money.
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