The film noir genre cuts to the core of the cynical ... director in Europe when he was invited to Hollywood by Warner Bros.

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

Image Credit: Warner Bros. Although many things happen in film noir, the pleasure of the movies does not always involve the specifics of the plot. Case in point: The Big Sleep, directed by Howard ...

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