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theseatheseatheopensea invited me to make one, so here is a list of a hundred films noirs. It is non-completist. It is non-proscriptive. I had intended it to start with proto-noir and end with neo-noir, but it turned out I had far more than a hundred noirs of the classically defined period to winnow down from and any number of solid citizens and weird little ornaments had already been left by the side of the meme. Like all of the other lists, it will be different tomorrow. Anything on this one that I haven't written about, rest assured that I want to. I would, however, need to sleep more than an hour, which is how the last couple of nights have been going.

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You remember when I said that I probably hadn't watched a single Hollywood noir in my life? Well, I certainly haven't found any proof to the contrary yet

Thank you for your contribution! I did leave a whole lot of noirs off that list.

(Of the ones on it, I would commend The October Man to your attention. It was not precisely my introduction to John Mills, but it was formative and feels like a film with a decent chance of you liking it. Plus there's Joan Greenwood.)

I very much enjoyed looking at all the posters. I've heard lots of the names before but this was the first time I've been able to put any sort of context to them, even if no doubt often misleading but nevertheless gloriously pulpy and frequently enticing.

Many of those posters are absolutely from other dimensions and if I found one in a thrift shop, of course I would take it home.

(I'm still sad that when I did my list they had the 98% incorrect in every details except for the cast names poster for The Traitors, which clearly the artist wasn't having with the low-key little thing that it is, and drew somethng else entirely, but then when I sorted the list the image vanished forever.)

I've noticed this widget is weird about its images! I am not sure what gives. Some of them seem linked to IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes and others do not.

I did notice on this and your other lists a couple of Barbara Stanwycks, which does remind me I should find some more of hers.

I just inflicted a list of favorite Stanwycks on skygiants! The Miracle Woman was among them. The others were Night Nurse (1931), Ladies They Talk About (1933), Baby Face (1933), The Lady Eve (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), Lady of Burlesque (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), East Side, West Side (1949), The File on Thelma Jordon (1950), The Furies (1950), Clash by Night (1952), and Jeopardy (1953). She pinged onto my radar when I started to watch pre-Codes and I love her.

ETA: Apologies for the editing, but *hugs* on the lack of sleep. I hope that some is achieved soon. In the meantime, it is an excellent list!

Thank you!

*hugs*

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Thank you for your contribution! I did leave a whole lot of noirs off that list.

If anyone else is feeling bad, point them to my efforts! XD (I mean, unless they somehow got minus numbers due to personally burninating one of your fave Noirs, they couldn't do worse.)

Of the ones on it, I would commend The October Man to your attention. It was not precisely my introduction to John Mills, but it was formative and feels like a film with a decent chance of you liking it. Plus there's Joan Greenwood.

I will add it to the list that is growing by the day with this meme. I have heard of that one, though!

Many of those posters are absolutely from other dimensions and if I found one in a thrift shop, of course I would take it home

Well, who wouldn't?

I've noticed this widget is weird about its images! I am not sure what gives. Some of them seem linked to IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes and others do not.

I know! Some stay the same, and others you choose carefully, and then they change or vanish!

Anyway, I have probably showed you this before but this is the delightfully baffling The Traitors poster. All I can say is that the fighting on the left is probably James Maxwell's swimming pool scrap at the end, but God knows what's going on in the rest. (The actual film is barely an hour, it is a kitchen sink kind of spy movie, and nobody is used as bait. They should have found a melodramatic way to advertise Anton Rodgers's inability to run a betting shop.)

I just inflicted a list of favorite Stanwycks on [personal profile] skygiants! The Miracle Woman was among them.

Yay, thank you! My list just grew even larger.

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I will add it to the list that is growing by the day with this meme. I have heard of that one, though!

Fingers crossed for a DVD in its proper region! I watched it originally off Netflix in the years when they were useful for that sort of thing and then on YouTube most recently. It's on BFI Player, too.

Anyway, I have probably showed you this before but this is the delightfully baffling The Traitors poster. All I can say is that the fighting on the left is probably James Maxwell's swimming pool scrap at the end, but God knows what's going on in the rest. (The actual film is barely an hour, it is a kitchen sink kind of spy movie, and nobody is used as bait. They should have found a melodramatic way to advertise Anton Rodgers's inability to run a betting shop.)

I mean, I find that dramatically compelling.

(The placement of "BAIT" in that poster is really something.)

Yay, thank you! My list just grew even larger.

Huzzah! My work here is . . . doing.

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Fingers crossed for a DVD in its proper region! I watched it originally off Netflix in the years when they were useful for that sort of thing and then on YouTube most recently. It's on BFI Player, too.

It might turn up on TPTV!

I mean, I find that dramatically compelling. (The placement of "BAIT" in that poster is really something.)

It's my favourite bit (apart from James Maxwell going in the swimming pool, obv.) I'm very fond of it, and, yeah, the first time I saw that poster I just assumed it was a different Traitors, but then I found a variation that clearly included the cast names. It is a terrible advertisement for the film; if anyone went in expecting the film in that poster they would have walked out again, or demanded their money back, possibly with angry jumping up and down at the swindle.

(I was trying to poke YT and see if it would cough it up, as I do from time to time, because it is a thoughtful little kitchen sink spy B-Movie with a lot of engagingly grubby 60s London location work & a nifty theme, but alas not, as usual. I did find, though, that a spy movie podcast watched it in 2023 and liked it as much as I did, without having a JM addiction as an excuse. I don't think I can possibly listen to their review, though, it's almost as long as the film!! XD

It goes round and round the back end of our Freeview channels a lot, though, which pleases me every time I see it there. Perhaps new people are watching a blurry b&w James Maxwell chew gum and make paper aeroplanes, who knows?)

Huzzah! My work here is . . . doing.

I need to get on things!

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It goes round and round the back end of our Freeview channels a lot, though, which pleases me every time I see it there. Perhaps new people are watching a blurry b&w James Maxwell chew gum and make paper aeroplanes, who knows?

From such hits to the id are fandoms made!

If it ever shows up on TCM, I will (a) watch it (b) let you know.

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If it ever shows up on TCM, I will (a) watch it (b) let you know.

Aww, thanks. <3

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It might turn up on TPTV!

It came around last month! It may well do so again.