This term was first coined by Nino Frank, and Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor is often said to be the first one.
This term was first coined by Nino Frank, and Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor is often said to be the first one. Other famous ones included Out of the Past, about a man who once worked for a gambler, and The Postman Always Rings Twice. Constrained by the Hays Code, nobody actually got away with murder in one, thanks to detectives like Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon. Known for flashbacks, dark cinematography, private investigators, and beautiful femmes fatale, this is, FTP, what genre of 1940s crime movies known by a French term?
This term was first coined by Nino Frank, and Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor is often said to be the first one.
film {noir}