For the Love of Film Noir :: Best Suited for Adult Minds (July, 1946)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Carey Wilson / D: Tay Garnett / W: Harry Ruskin, Niven Busch, James M. Cain (novel) / C: Sidney Wagner / E: George White / M: George Bassman / S: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter

For the Love of Film Noir :: Please Don’t Tell Anyone What She Did! (January, 1946)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

Mildred Pierce (1945) First National Pictures :: Warner Bros. Pictures / EP: Jack L. Warner / P: Jerry Wald / D: Michael Curtiz / W: Ranald MacDougall, James M. Cain (novel) / C: Ernest Haller / E: David Weisbart / M: Max Steiner / S: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett

For the Love of Film Noir :: An Unholy Love, an Almost Perfect Crime, and They Tried to Kiss Away a Murder! (August, 1944)

 

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

Double Indemnity (1944) Paramount Pictures / EP: Buddy G. DeSylva / P: Joseph Sistrom / D: Billy Wilder / W: Raymond Chandler, Billy Wilder, James M. Cain (novel) / C: John Seitz / E: Doane Harrison / M: Miklós Rózsa / S: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr