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

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]

(found at: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/noirprecursors.htm)
1.
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 The Beast of the City (1932)
by Charles Brabin
  
2.
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 Blind Alley (1939)
by Charles Vidor
  
3.
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 Bordertown
by Archie Mayo (1935)
  
4. Bullets or Ballots
by William Keighley
  
5.
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 City Streets (1931)
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
6.
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 Fugitive Lady (1934)
by Albert S. Rogell
  
7.
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 Fury (1936)
by Fritz Lang
  
8.
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 The Glass Key (1935)
by Frank Tuttle
  
9.
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 The Green Cockatoo (1937)
by William Cameron Menzies
  
10. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
11. La Bete Humaine - Criterion Collection  
12. Little Caesar
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
13. M - Criterion Collection (Special Edition)  
14. Marked Woman
by Lloyd Bacon
  
15. Call It Murder
by Chester Erskine
  
16. Pepe Le Moko - Criterion Collection
by Julien Duvivier
  
17. The Petrified Forest
by Archie Mayo
  
18. Port of Shadows - Criterion Collection
by Marcel Carné
  
19. The Public Enemy
by William A. Wellman
  
20.
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 The Racket (1928)
by Lewis Milestone
  
21.
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 Rio (1939)
by John Brahm
  
22. The Roaring Twenties
by Raoul Walsh
  
23.
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 Scarface (1932)
by Howard Hawks (dir.)
  
24.
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 The Scoundrel (1935)
by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
  
25.
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 Thunderbolt (1929)
by Josef von Sternberg
  
26.
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 Underworld (1927)
by Josef von Sternberg
  
27.
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 You and Me (1938)
by Fritz Lang
  
28. You Only Live Once
by Fritz Lang
  
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Created by sienel on Nov 30, 2006.