The Maltese Falcon
12 Angry Men
L.A Confidential

I forgot to put Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train in here, great film, miss it, miss out :ok:

*Bump for Timmadigan*

I notice you liked the Maltese Falcon, any other film noire gems that you particularly enjoyed? :)

LoL

I love most flim noir from the '30s and '40s. Even those idiotic pulp ones.

The favs are
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
Touch of Evil- Orson at his best.... even better than Citizen Kane
Notorious
AND....
Key Largo- probably Bogart's best

OMG I saw Touch of Evil a while back, it really was different, and manacing although in some ways I found it funny :D I'm so glad they showed it though, it was a real experience.

If this are film noir -

Night of the Hunter- 1955

Robert Mitchum plays a psychotic preacher who prays on a family. it has some really spooky moments, the atmosphere is fab and Mitchum is fantastic, so menacing without needign to overact it. Great film, a must see if you liek suspense, psycho stalker stuff. I hope they never remake thsi oen as it really is best left alone and of course in b&W. :)

Cape Fear(Original) - again Robert Mitchum is excellent in the role of the stalking psychopath. There's a real threatenign and uneasy atmosphere to this, with Mitchum again beign brilliantly menacing. I fidn this had me hooked, great thriller/suspense movie. Forget the remake even if ti has De Niro in it, it's just not the same. (Although my sister prefers it as she has a thing abotu Robert De Niro lookign hard and wearing tatoos roflmao )

Btw I have not seen many of the films mentioned. Anyoen care to give me a review? :) The Third Man is hardly on TV and Key Largo isnt; either.

you cant really blame your sister SB - De Niro did look particularly sexy all lean, mean and tattooed up!

never seen the original of Cape Fear but you sell it well, might try to catch it if I can.

Ooh Notorious is brilliant Hitchcock, wonderful performances by all, one of Bergman's best in what I've seen of her.

:D

You shoudl catch it, it's brilliant.

Sunset Boulevard-saw it as a kid, very dark-very noir! Gloria Swanson is a kind of small scale gay icon in the USA, there's a slight drag queen esque quality to her performance. Monochrome in feel and hazy to touch, but worth watching

WHITE HEAT-mum loved Cagney so as a kid i kind of imbibed his stuff, this is dark-and perhaps less dreamlike than some noir stuff but a classic film-a morality tale, but it's all heart-Cagney at his most Cagneyesque.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY Barbara Stanwyck great actress-, great film- One of those great flashback films where the crime seems virtually inevitable once you know the past. A big clip of it features in woody allens 'manhatten murder mystery' a kind of in joke i guess from one great director to another's work.