For fans of Humphrey Bogart's To Have and Have Not, there's a lesser-known adaptation from six years later that stars a ...

One of the earlier examples of film noir, Scarlet Street stars Hollywood Golden Age legend Edward G. Robinson in one of his most complex roles. Robinson plays Christopher Cross, ...

Detective stories are one of the most frequent forms of film noir. 1941's The Maltese Falcon and 1946's The Big Sleep have become the flagship examples of film noir, as the detective story allows ...

When his style was adapted to crime stories in the late 1920s and '30s, most successfully for writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, the seeds of noir were planted.

Three examples of the film noir revival have reached video in recent weeks: ”The Two Jakes” on Feb. 28, ”After Dark, My Sweet” on March 7 and ”The Hot Spot” on Thursday.

Though film scholars enjoy tossing around the term “film noir” to describe any number of dark and dangerous black-and-white movies from the early 1930s (in Europe) to the late 1950s (in… ...

Clocks often appear in film noir, such as this scene from the 1946 movie “The Stranger” with Orson Welles and Loretta Young. ... often cited as one of the greatest examples of film noir.

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs will host Guillermo Del Toro showing an expanded B&W 'Nightmare Alley,' along with '40s classics.