TSDPDT - 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
  2. 2.
    Blind Alley (1939)
    by Charles Vidor
  3. 3.
    Bordertown
    by Archie Mayo (1935)
  4. 4.
    Bullets or Ballots
    by Friz Freleng
  5. 5.
    City Streets (1931)
    by Rouben Mamoulian
  6. 6.
    ?
    Fugitive Lady (1934)
    by Albert S. Rogell
  7. 7.
    Fury (1936)
    by Fritz Lang
  8. 8.
    ?
    The Glass Key (1935)
    by Frank Tuttle
  9. 9.
    ?
    The Green Cockatoo (1937)
    by William Cameron Menzies
  10. 10.
    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
    by Mervyn LeRoy
  12. 12.
    ?
    Little Caesar
    by Elmer Clifton
  13. 13.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang
  14. 14.
    Marked Woman
    by Friz Freleng
  15. 15.
    Call It Murder
    by Chester Erskine
  16. 16.
    Pepe Le Moko (The Criterion Collection)
    by Julien Duvivier
  17. 17.
    The Petrified Forest
    by Archie Mayo
  18. 18.
    Port of Shadows (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné
  19. 19.
    The Public Enemy
    by William Wellman
  20. 20.
    The Racket (1928)
    by Lewis Milestone
  21. 21.
    ?
    Rio (1939)
    by John Brahm
  22. 22.
    The Roaring Twenties
    by Raoul Walsh
  23. 23.
    Scarface (1932)
    by Howard Hawks (dir.)
  24. 24.
    The Scoundrel (1935)
    by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
  25. 25.
    ?
    Thunderbolt (1929)
    by Josef von Sternberg
  26. 26.
    Underworld (1927)
    by Josef von Sternberg
  27. 27.
    ?
    You and Me (1938)
    by Fritz Lang
  28. 28.
    You Only Live Once

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Created by sienel on Nov 30, 2006.
 

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