Robert Foster‘s movie is capped with a climactic roller coaster finale, and the on-location footage of mid-century San Francisco lends a lovely atmosphere to this slice of real-world noir. With the police poking around asking all sorts of questions about their runaway witness, Sheridan meets their inquiries with a detached apathy, even as she realizes her spouse’s life is in grave danger. Woman on The Run (1950)Īnn Sheridan gives one of the finest performances of her career as a scorned wife whose husband has fled for his life. is a fitting embodiment of post-war paranoia in the ensuing Cold War era. Neville Brand, in particular, makes a startling impression as the henchmen terrorizing Bigelow through the streets of San Francisco. Being in the public domain for some years hasn’t hurt either. In an extensive tracking shot, Frank Bigelow doggedly stumbles his way to the police station to call in a murder: his own murder! Although it has the ultimate gimmick, thanks to the plucky charisma of lead Edmond O’Brien, on-location shooting, and a bewildering conspiracy, D.O.A. It is simply an imperfect, utterly incomplete attempt to shed some deserved light on a few underrated movies from the dark genre. Let me reiterate that this is not a list of the best classic noir films of all time. However, here are 15 more films curated from the 1950s, generally considered to fit the loose parameters of the film noir style. If you did not get a chance to peruse Part I, featuring 15 film noir gems from the 1940s, I would encourage you to start there. Our exploration of film noir continues with what Paul Schrader described in his essay “Notes on Film Noir” as the “period of psychotic action and suicidal impulse.” Generally speaking, with the beginning of the 1950s, “the noir hero, seemingly under the weight of 10 years of despair, started to go bananas.”
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