The Lost Weekend (Jackson.)
The Lost Weekend
social drama
plot summary
quoted
Loy, Myrna
Lupino, Ida
in Beware, My Lovely
in High Sierra
in The Man I Love
in On Dangerous Ground
Lure of the Swamp
Lydecker, Waldo character in Laura
Lynley, Carol
M
German Expressionist overtones
Losey remake
plot summary
Macbeth
MacGraw, Charles
MacLaine, Shirley
MacMurray, Fred
in Double Indemnity
noir victim
voice-over narrator
weak man roles
Madigan
Magnani, Anna
The Magnificent Ambersons
Madame de. . .
Malden, Karl
Malloy, Moose character in Farewell, My Lovely
Malone, Dorothy
The Maltese Falcon (Hammett.)
quoted
tough guy essay
The Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart in
characterized
city in
compared with Touch of Evil
narrative construction
possible first film noir
quoted
Manhunt
Manhunt theme in film noir
The Man I Love
Ida Lupino in
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man with the Golden Arm
March of Time
Marlowe, Philip
character in Raymond Chandler stories
character in Lady in the Lake
character in Murder, My Sweet
Humphrey Bogart as
James Garner as
Elliott Gould as
Robert Mitchum as
Robert Montgomery as
Dick Powell as
professional investigator
Marlowe
Marriott, Lindsay character in Murder, My Sweet
Marsh, Kitty character in Scarlet Street
Marsh, Reginald
Marshall, George
Marvin, Lee
in The Big Heat
Massey, Raymond
Mastroianni, Marcello
Mature, Victor
film noir character actor
in Cry of the City
in Kiss of Death
McArthur, Colin
McCarthy, Senator Joseph
McCoy, Horace
McNally, Stephen
McTeague (Norris, F.)
Melville, Jean-Pierre
Mencken, H. L.
Mercouri, Melina
Mersault character in The Stranger
Metropolis
Midnight Lace
Mildred Pierce (Cain, J. M.)
plot summary
Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford in
wrong man theme
Miles, Vera
in The Wrong Man
Milland, Ray
in The Big Clock
in The Ministry of Fear
The Ministry of Fear
Ray Milland in
victim theme
Mr. Klein
Mitchum, Robert
as Philip Marlowe
film noir leading man
in The Big Sleep
in Out of the Past
Money as temptation in film noir
Money and sex as temptations in film noir
Monroe, Marilyn
in Don’t Bother to Knock
in Niagara
noir psychopath
Montgomery, Robert
as Philip Marlowe
in Lady in the Lake
Moorehead, Agnes in Dark Passage
Moreno, Rita
Morgan, Harry character in To Have and Have Not
Mortal Consequences
Moseby, Harry character in Night Moves
Muni, Paul
as Scarface
Murder for Pleasure (Haycraft, H.)
Murder, My Sweet
manhunt theme
narrative construction
nightmare sequence
plot summary
Powell as Marlowe
quoted
vestige of Expressionism
voice-over narration
Murders in the Rue Morgue
My Name is Julia Ross
plot summary
victim theme
Naked Alibi
The Naked City
city in
Expressionism in location film
noir set-piece
Naked Kiss
noir set-piece
The Narrow Margin
late noir film
plot summary
Nathan, George Jean
Naturalism
compared with hard-boiled school
source for film noir
Neff, Walter character in Double Indemnity
Newman, Paul
Nicholson, Jack
Niagara
plot summary
Night and the City
city in
criminal point of view
definitive film noir
Expressionism in location film
semi-documentary style
Francis L. Sullivan in
Richard Widmark in
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Woolrich.)
The Night Holds Terror
Nightfall
Nightmare Alley
noir psychopath
Night Moves plot summary
Night of the Hunter
criminal point of view
Expressionistic use of space
Robert Mitchum in
Nightwebs (Woolrich.)
Norris, Frank
North by Northwest
Notes on Film Noir (Schrader, P.)
Notorious
Novak, Kim
The Novel of Violence in America (Frohock, W. M.)
quoted
No Way Out
quoted
victim theme
O’Brien, Edmund
in D.O.A.
in White Heat
Odds Against Tomorrow
Gloria Grahame in
noir motifs
Robert Ryan in
O’Donnell, Cathy
in Side Street
in They Live by Night
O’Hara, John
O’Keefe, Dennis
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway, E.)
Olivier, Laurence
On Dangerous Ground
Expressionism in location film
Ida Lupino in
plot summary
rural setting
Robert Ryan in
One, Two, Three
On the Waterfront
Open City
One Way Street
Ophuls, Max
O’Shaughnessy, Brigid character in The Maltese Falcon
Ossessione
Othello
Out of the Past
Jane Greer in
Robert Mitchum in
rural setting
treatment of the past
wrong man theme
Paisan
Palance, Jack
film noir character actor
in Panic in the Streets
in Sudden Fear
Panic in the Streets
city in
Expressionism in location film
Jack Palance in
Richard Widmark in
Panorama du film noir américain (Borde, R. and Chaumenton, E.)
The Paradine Case
Peck, Gregory
Penn, Arthur
Perkins, Tony
Perrine, Effie character in The Maltese Falcon
Peters, Jean
Phaedra
Phantom Lady (Woolrich.)
Phantom Lady
example of genre directing
manhunt theme
plot summary
Phenix City Story
city in
decline of genre
Pickup on South Street
directed by Fuller
Richard Widmark in
Pierce, Mildred character in Mildred Pierce
Pinter, Harold
Pitfall
Dick Powell in
Lizabeth Scott in
quoted
Plunder Road
Poe, Edgar Allen
use of language
Point Blank
Poitier, Sidney
Porgy and Bess
Possessed
location film
plot summary
Post-Impressionists influence on Expressionists
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Cain, J. M.)
The Postman Always Rings Twice
rural setting
sexual obsession theme
voice-over narration
Powell, Dick
as Philip Marlowe
in Cornered
in Murder, My Sweet
in Pitfall
voice-over narrator
Powell, William
Power, Tyrone
Powers, Tom character in The Public Enemy
Preminger, Otto
film noir director
later works
Price, Vincent
Prison setting in film noir
Private eye dramas
analyzed
in the sixties and seventies
Prohibition and the Depression in gangster films
Protagonists, middle-class in film noir
The Prowler
decline of genre
desert setting
plot analyzed
plot summary
social drama
The Public Enemy
city in
Pursued
Psycho
as film noir
location and studio opening
noir motifs
noir psychopath
transference of guilt
Psychopath, the in film noir
Queen Bee
Queen, Ellery
Quicksand
Race prejudice in film noir
Raft, George
Randolph, Jefferson character in The Big Clock
Raw Deal
Ray, Nicholas film noir director
Rear Window (Woolrich.)
Rear Window
as film noir
confinement theme
doom theme
violence theme
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
The Reckless Moment
Joan Bennett in
city in
entrapment theme
middle-class protagonist
Red Harvest (Hammett.)
Red River
Regan, Mrs. character in The Big Sleep
Reign of Terror
Rendezvous in Black (Woolrich.)
Renoir, Jean
film noir director
Richards, Dick
Rico character in Little Caesar
Rififi
Riot in Cell Block
Ritter, Thelma
Roaring Twenties
Roberts, Clete
Robinson, Edward G.
film noir actor
in Ballots or Bullets
in Double Indemnity
in Key Largo
in Little Caesar
in Scarlet Street
in The Woman in the Window
noir victim
Robinson, Madeleine
Roman, Ruth
Rope
as film noir
confinement theme
Farley Granger in
plot summary
quoted
Ross, Julia character in My Name is Julia Ross
Rossellini, Roberto
The Rules of the Game
Running Away From Myself (Deming, B.)
Ruth
character in The Dark Mirror
Ruthless
Ryan, Robert
film noir character actor
in Beware, My Lovely
in Clash by Night
in Crossfire
in Odds Against Tomorrow
in On Dangerous Ground
in The Set-Up
in The Woman on the Beach
noir psychopath
Saint, Eva Marie
Saint with a Gun
Scarface
city in
Scarface character in Scarface
Scarlet Street
analyzed
city in
middle-class protagonist
money and sex theme
plot summary
Edward G. Robinson in
victim theme
Schrader, Paul
Scorsese, Martin
Scott, George C.
Scott, Lizabeth
Screaming Mimi
Secret Ceremony
The Secret Fury
Serenade (Cain, J. M.)
plot summary
Serenade
The Servant
Settings, deceptive in film noir
The Set-Up
boxing milieu