Tag Archives: film noir
Nightmare Alley (1947)
They didn’t call them noirs then; they were just crime pictures – cheap, pulpy, sensationalistic. The papers turned up their noses but audiences flocked to them, so studios kept making them. But if we didn’t have crime pictures as deeply … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Smoking Gun
Tagged 40's, Carnival, film noir, hard boiled, psychic, Tarot
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The Seventh Victim (1943)
This is my favorite of the Val Lewton-produced films, a very curious mixture of horror and film noir that fans of either genre should embrace with equal zeal. Mark Robson was not as naturally gifted a director as Jacques Tourneur, … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Caligari
Tagged 40's, film noir, horror, Satanism, Val Lewton
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