Bogie doing noir. Chaplin doing satire. Screwball comedies being screwy. No wonder the picturehouses of the 1940’s were ...

We rank the most underrated noir movies from the golden decade of the 1940s, from John Brahm's The Locket to Robert Siodmak's The Dark Mirror.

Double Indemnity, Night of the Hunter, and Out of the Past are all among the absolute best film noir movies that were shot in black-and-white.

The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s, in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène.

A 1940 suspense movie with Peter Lorre is the first true installment in the film noir genre, making it the beginning of a massive trend in Hollywood.

However, film noir too had a significant influence on the golden age of British cinema too, which stretched from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Paul Schrader, the filmmaker ("First Reformed," "Taxi Driver") and critic, in his essay "Notes on Film Noir," contends there were four elements present in 1940s Hollywood that fomented the birth ...

Contact Brent Hallenbeck at [email protected]. This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: Why did Veronica Lake, 1940s film noir star, die in Burlington?

From Blob to Noir: Colonial Theatre hosts Philly debut of ‘Noir City’ festival Eddie Muller’s festival of classic film noir has been around for 20 years, touring through a dozen cities. It’s coming to ...

There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and ...