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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 09:56:06 CST
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From: Rick Francis 
Subject: Film Noir list--long
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As promised, I'm posting an on-going list of *films noirs*.
A bibliography is in the works too, which includes
books with MUCH longer lists of films...
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First draft version of a list of _films noirs_, important or
influential according to admittedly subjective criteria.
Compiled by Rick Francis and Seth Hurwitz.
Send suggestions to Rick Francis at
C47805NF@WUVMD.

Films are listed chronologically, then divided into a
primary and secondary categories, with (sometimes) distributor
info and price.  Unmarked numbers are item and
ordering numbers for Baker & Taylor, a major jobber for
academic libraries, and the prices are those found in 1992
catalogs.
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The Stranger on the Third Floor (40)
dir Boris Ingster, w/ Peter Lorre & Elisha Cook, Jr.
"Often referred to as the first true or total film noir"

Rebecca (40)
dir Hitchcock, w/ Olivier and Fontaine
"H.'s first American film helped to establish a link betw the newborn
noir sensibility and gothic lit"

The Maltese Falcon (41)*
dir Huston, from Hammett novel, w/ Bogart et al

High Sierra (41)
dir Raoul Walsh, sc J. Huston et al, w/ Bogart and Lupino

The Shanghai Gesture (41)
dir Josef von Sternberg, sc von S., w/ Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, &
Victor Mature
"significant early noir"

I Wake Up Screaming (41)
dir H. Bruce Humberstone, from Steve Fisher novel

Street of Chance (42)
dir Jack Hively, from novel by Woolrich, The Black Curtain

The Glass Key (42)
dir Stuart Heisler, from Hammett novel

Shadow of a Doubt (43)
dir Hitchcock
"H's first full-fledged noir"

Laura (44)*
dir O. Preminger

Ministry of Fear (44)
dir Lang, from Graham Greene novel, w/ Ray Milland

Bluebeard (44)
dir Edgar G. Ulmer

Double Indemnity (44)**
dir B. Wilder, sc Wilder & Chandler, from Cain novel, w/ Fred
Macmurray & Barbara Stanwyk

Christmas Holiday (44)
dir Robert Siodmak

Murder My Sweet (44)*
[orig title Farewell My Lovely]
dir Edward Dmytryk, from Chandler novel

The Woman in the Window (44)*
dir Lang, w/ E. G. Robinson and Joan Bennett

Phantom Lady (44)
dir Siodmak, from C. Woolrich novel

Detour (45)*
dir E. Ulmer

Spellbound (45)
dir Hitchcock, w/ Ingrid Bergman, G. Peck

The Suspect (45)
dir Siodmak, w/ Charles Laughton

Strange Illusion (45)
dir E. Ulmer

Scarlet Street (45)**
dir Lang, w/ E. G. Robinson & Joan Bennet

The Killers (46)**
dir Siodmak, from Hemingway story

The Postman Always Rings Twice (46)
dir Tay Garnett, from Cain novel, w/ Lana Turner

The Strange Woman (46)
dir Ulmer

The Stranger (46)
dir Welles, w/ Welles & John Huston uncredited as screenwriters, w/ E.
G. Robinson & Welles

The Spiral Staircase (46)
dir Siodmak

The Big Sleep (46)
dir Howard Hawks, sc by Faulkner et al, from Chandler novel, w/ Bogart
& Bacall

Black Angel (46)
dir Roy William Neill, from C. Woolrich novel, w/ Peter Lorre

The Blue Dahlia (46)
dir George Marshall, sc by Chandler (his only original sc), w/ Alan Ladd
& Veronica Lake

The Chase (46)
dir Arthur Ripley, from The Black Path of Fear by C. Woolrich

Crack-Up (46)
dir Irving Reis, from story by Fredric Brown

Gilda (46)*
dir Charles Vidor, w/ Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford

Undercurrent (46)*
dir Vincente Minelli, w/ K. Hepburn, Robert Taylor, and R. Mitchum

Notorious (46)
dir Hitchcock, w/ Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Raines

Lady in the Lake (47)
dir Robert Montgomery, sc Steve Fisher, from Chandler novel

Out of the Past (47)**
dir Jacques Tourneur, w/ R. Mitchum

Boomerang (47)
dir Elia Kazan

Born to Kill (47)
dir Robert Wise

The Woman on the Beach (47)
dir Jean Renoir (his only film noir)

The Guilty (47)
dir John Reinhardt, from story "Two Men in a Furnish Room" by C.
Woolrich

The Unfaithful (47)
dir Vincent Sherman, sc David Goodis from his story

The Unsuspected (47)*
dir Michael Curtiz, w/ Claude Rains

The Paradine Case (47)
dir Hitchcock, w/ Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton

The Street with No Name (48)
dir William Keighley, w/ R. Widmark

He Walked By Night (48)
dir Alfred Werker

The Hunted (48)
dir Jack Bernhard, sc Steve Fisher

Key Largo (48)
dir J. Huston, w/ Bogart, Bacall, and E. G. Robinson

Cry of the City (48)
dir Siodmak

The Lady from Shanghai (48)
dir Orson Welles, w/ Welles and R. Hayworth

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (48)
dir John Farrow, from C. Woolrich novel, w/ E. G. Robinson

Secret Beyond the Door (48)
dir Lang

Ruthless (48)
dir E. Ulmer

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (48)
dir William Nigh, sc S. Fisher from C. Woolrich novel

Caught (49)*
dir Max Ophul

Criss Cross (49)*
dir Siodmak

The File on Thelma Jordon (49)*
dir Siodmak, w/ B. Stanwyk

Whirlpool (49)
dir Preminger

White Heat (49)
dir R. Walsh, w/ Cagney

The Window (49)
dir Ted Tetzlaff, from Woolrich Story "The Boy Cried Murder"

A Woman's Secret (49)
dir Nicholas Ray

Knock on Any Door (49)
dir N. Ray, w/ Bogart

They Live by Night (49)
[British title The Twisted Road]
dir Nicholas Ray

The Set-Up (49)*
dir R. Wise

The Reckless Moment (49)*
dir Max Ophuls, w/ James Mason

Asphalt Jungle (50)
dir John Huston, w/ Sterling Hayden

Born to Be Bad (50)
dir Nicholas Ray

D.O.A. (50)*
dir Rudolph Mat

Dark City (50)*
dir William Dieterle, w/ Charlton Heston

House by the River (50)
dir Lang
"Lang's least known and blackest noirs"

In a Lonely Place (50)*
dir Nicholas Ray, w/ Bogart

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (50)*
dir Gordon Douglas, from novel by Horace McCoy, w/ Cagney

Night and the City (50)*
dir Jules Dassin, w/ Richard Widmark

No Man of Her Own (50)
dir Mitchell Leisen, from novel I Married a Dead Man by Woolrich

No Way Out (50)
dir Joseph Mankiewicz, w/ R. Widmark
"Tense narrative of racial bigotry and mob violence"

Panic in the Streets (50)
dir Elia Kazan

Stage Fright (50)
dir Hitchcock

Sunset Boulevard (50)
dir Billy Wilder, w/ Gloria Swanson

Where the Sidewalk Ends (50)
dir O. Preminger

Strangers on a Train (51)
dir Hitchcock, sc Chandler et al, from P. Highsmith novel

House on Telegraph Hill (51)
dir R. Wise

Detective Story (51)*
dir William Wyler, w/ Kirk Douglas

Ace in the Hole [also titled The Big Carnival] (51)**
dir Billy Wilder, w/ Kirk Douglas

Clash by Night (52)
dir Lang

On Dangerous Ground (52)
dir Nicholas Ray, w/ Robert Ryan & I. Lupino

The Turning Point (52)
dir William Dieterle, from story by Horace McCoy

Vicki (53)
dir Harry Horner, from novel I Wake Up Screaming by S. Fisher

Pickup on South Street (53)
dir Sam Fuller, w/ R. Widmark

Angel Face (53)
dir Otto Preminger, w/ Robert Mitchum
"Preminger's masterpiece of fatalistic sexual psychology"

I Confess (53)
dir Hitchcock

I, the Jury (53)
dir Harry Essex, from M. Spillane novel

The Big Heat (53)*
dir Lang

The Blue Gardenia (53)
dir Lang

The Hitch-Hiker (53)
dir Ida Lupino

The Long Wait (54)
dir Victor Saville, from Spillane novel

World for Ransom (54)
dir R. Aldrich

Human Desire (54)
dir Lang, from Zola's La Bete Humaine

The Big Knife (55)
dir Robert Aldrich, w/ Jack Palance and Ida Lupino

Night of the Hunter (55)*
dir Charles Laughton, w/ R. Mitchum
{not listed as film noir by Selby}

Mr. Arkadin (55)
[British title Confidential Report]
dir Welles, sc Welles from his novel, w/ Welles

Killer's Kiss (55)
dir S. Kubrick
boxing flick, "Dark, violent early cheapie by Kubrick, with some
interesting visuals"

Kiss Me Deadly (55)
dir R. Aldrich, from Spillane novel

Murder is My Beat (55)
dir E. Ulmer

The Killing (56)*
dir Kubrick, w/ Sterling Hayden (and Elisha Cook, Jr.)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (56)
dir Fritz Lang

While the City Sleeps (56)
dir Lang

The Wrong Man (56)
dir Hitchcock, w/ Henry Fonda

Nightmare (56)
dir Maxwell Shane, from C. Woolrich story

Nightfall (57)
dir Jacques Tourneur, from D. Goodis novel

Short Cut to Hell (57)
dir James Cagney

The Burglar (57)
dir Paul Wendkos, sc by David Goodis, from his novel

Screaming Mimi (58)
dir Gerd Oswald, from novel by Fredric Brown

Touch of Evil (58)*
dir Welles, w/ Charlton Heston & Janet Leigh & Welles

I Want to Live (58)
dir Wise

The Crimson Kimono (59)
dir Sam Fuller

Odds Against Tomorrow (59)
dir R. Wise
______________________________________________________
Primary List

The Stranger on the Third Floor (40)
dir Boris Ingster, w/ Peter Lorre & Elisha Cook, Jr.
"Often referred to as the first true or total film noir"
Item # THE 6225
Order # 6302182948
$19.98

Bluebeard (44)
dir Edgar G. Ulmer
UAV 4133
630176787X
$6.98
[Price above is one of several versions listed in Baker & Taylor, though
it's unclear which is the 1944 version.  Bowkers lists two prices, $19.95
and $24.95.]

Double Indemnity (44)
dir B. Wilder, sc Wilder & Chandler, from Cain novel, w/ Fred
Macmurray & Barbara Stanwyk
MC80174
6300184099
$14.95

Detour (45)
dir E. Ulmer
[unavailabe through B & T, listed at $19.95 or $24.95 in Bowkers]

Scarlet Street (45)
dir Lang, w/ E. G. Robinson & Joan Bennet
[two listings given, unclear which if either is the '45 Lang film]
$6.98 or $9.95

The Killers (46)
dir Siodmak, from Hemingway story
MC 55014
6300181383
$39.95

Undercurrent (46)
dir Vincente Minelli, w/ K. Hepburn & R. Mitchum
MGM 202349
6302208947
$19.98

The Stranger (46)
dir Welles, w/ Welles & John Huston uncredited as screenwriters, w/ E.
G. Robinson & Welles
THE 6244
630232629X
$19.98

Born to Kill (47)
dir Robert Wise
THE 6129
6302182859
$19.98

The Street with No Name (48)
dir William Keighley, w/ R. Widmark
TW 1886
6301979680
$19.98

Caught (49)
dir Max Ophuls
NT 594
6300207994
$14.98

Criss Cross (49)
dir Siodmak
MC80678
630098754
$59.95

The Window (49)
dir Ted Tetzlaff, from Woolrich Story "The Boy Cried Murder"
THE 6223
6302182921
$19.98

The Third Man (49)
w/ Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles
HM 8069
6300158934
$9.95

The Set-Up (49)
dir R. Wise
THE 6227
6302326281
$19.98

In a Lonely Place (50)
dir Nicholas Ray, w/ Bogart
CO 940
6301263952
$69.95

Panic in the Streets (50)
dir Elia Kazan
TW 1847
6301863208
$39.98

On Dangerous Ground (52)
dir Nicholas Ray, w/ Robert Ryan & I. Lupino
THE 6157
6301648048
$19.98

Mr. Arkadin (55)
[British title Confidential Report]
dir Welles, sc Welles from his novel, w/ Welles
[unlisted in B & T, listed as $14.95 or $29.95 in Bowkers]

I Want to Live (58)
dir Wise
MGM 600760
630196957X
$19.98
_____________________________________
Secondary List

Rebecca (40)
dir Hitchcock, w/ Olivier and Fontaine
"H.'s first American film helped to establish a link betw the newborn
noir sensibility and gothic lit"
TW 8012
6301670140
$19.98

High Sierra (41)
dir Raoul Walsh, sc J. Huston et al, w/ Bogart and Lupino
MGM 201851
630196893X
$19.98

Shadow of a Doubt (43)
dir Hitchcock
"H's first full-fledged noir"

The Postman Always Rings Twice (46)
dir Tay Garnett, from Cain novel, w/ Lana Turner

Key Largo (48)
dir J. Huston, w/ Bogart, Bacall, and E. G. Robinson
$19.98

The Lady from Shanghai (48)
dir Orson Welles, w/ Welles and R. Hayworth
$19.95

White Heat (49)
dir R. Walsh, w/ Cagney
$19.98

D.O.A. (50)
dir Rudolph Mat
[several versions listed in Bowkers, one colorized (uggh!), one listed as
1949 and one as 1950 (??)]

Strangers on a Train (51)
dir Hitchcock, sc Chandler et al, from P. Highsmith novel

Night of the Hunter (55)
dir Charles Laughton, w/ R. Mitchum
$19.98