FILM NOIREmily Delaloye

MALTESE FALCON

• 1941 warner bros film noir.

• Directed and written by John Huston.

• Produced by Hal B. Wallis

THE BIG SLEEP

• 1946

• Directed and produced by Howard Hawks

• Screenplay by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

• 1944

• American

• Directed by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler

• Produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom

• Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler

THE KILLERS

• 1946

• American

• Directed by Robert Siodmak

• Produced by Mark Hellinger

• Screenplay by Richard Brooks, Anthony Veiller and John

Huston

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

• 1957

• American

• Made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions

• Released by United Artists

• Directed by Alexander Mackendrick

• Produced by James Hill

KISS ME DEADLY

• 1955

• Produced and directed by Robert Aldrich

• Screenplay was written by A.I Bezzerides

• Based on the mystery novel “Kiss Me, Deadly”

OUT OF THE PAST

• 1947

• Directed by Jacques Tourneur

• Produced by Warren Duff

• Screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring

• Released in UK as “Build My Gallows High”

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

• 1946

• Directed by Tay Garnett

• Produced by Cary Wilson

• Screenplay by Harry Ruskin and Niven Busch

• Based on 1934 novel of ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ by James M. Cain.

THE BIG HEAT

• 1953

• Directed by Fritz Lang

• Produced by Robert Arthur

• Screenplay by Sydney Boehm

SPELLBOUND

• 1945

• American

• Psychological Mystery Thiller

• Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• Produced by David O. Selznick

• Screenplay by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht

DETOUR

• 1945

• Adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from Goldsmith’s novel “Detour”

• Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

• Produced by Leon Fromkess

• Screenplay by Martin Goldsmith

• Released by the Producers Releasing Corporation.

TOUCH OF EVIL

• 1958

• American

• Crime Thriller

• Written and Directed by Orson Welles

• Produced by Albert Zugsmith and Rick Schmidlin

• One of the last film noir in the genre’s classic era

IN A LONELY PLACE

• 1950

• Directed by Nicholas Ray

• Produced by Robert Lord

• Screenplay by Edmund H. North and Andrew Solt

MURDER MY SWEET

• 1944

• American

• Directed by Edward Dmytryk

• Produced by Adrian Scott

• Screenplay by John Paxton

• Released as “Farewell My Lovely” in UK