They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They? - Noir Precursors (Pre 1940)

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The Noir-Precursors (Pre-1940) section lists 28 films that shaped the look of noir before the style came into its own during the 1940’s.

[See also http://www.listsofbests.com/tag/film+noir%2Cthey+shoot+pictures]

  1. 1.
    The Beast of the City (1932)
    by Charles Brabin

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    Blind Alley (1939)
    by Charles Vidor

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    Bordertown
    by Archie Mayo (1935)

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    Bullets or Ballots
    by William Keighley

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    City Streets (1931)
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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    Fugitive Lady (1934)
    by Albert S. Rogell

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    Fury (1936)
    by Fritz Lang

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    The Glass Key (1935)
    by Frank Tuttle

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    The Green Cockatoo (1937)
    by William Cameron Menzies

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    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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    Little Caesar
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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    Marked Woman
    by Lloyd Bacon

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  14. 15.
    Call It Murder
    by Chester Erskine

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  15. 16.
    Pepe Le Moko - Criterion Collection
    by Julien Duvivier

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    The Petrified Forest
    by Archie Mayo

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  17. 18.
    Port of Shadows - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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  18. 19.
    The Public Enemy
    by William A. Wellman

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    The Racket (1928)
    by Lewis Milestone

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    Rio (1939)
    by John Brahm

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  21. 22.
    The Roaring Twenties
    by Raoul Walsh

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  22. 23.
    Scarface (1932)
    by Howard Hawks (dir.)

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  23. 24.
    The Scoundrel (1935)
    by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur

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    Thunderbolt (1929)
    by Josef von Sternberg

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  25. 26.
    Underworld (1927)
    by Josef von Sternberg

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    You and Me (1938)
    by Fritz Lang

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  27. 28.
    You Only Live Once
    by Fritz Lang

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Created by sienel on Nov 30, 2006.
 

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