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In Reply to: Current Top 50 Film Noirs of all time... posted by Hepcat on April 07, 2004 at 14:23:19:
How about: "Detour" (1945) considered by many to be the first noir."Gun Crazy" (1949) also know as "Deadly Is The Female" and consdered to be the best "B" film of all time.
"The Big Combo" (1955) a personal favorite of mine.
Follow Ups:
Duke,Gun Crazy/Deadly-Female is #32 on the list-great film by director Joesph Lewis, who also directed Big Combo-a great noir director.
Detour's main claim to fame is that it is a very decent noir made for next to nothing in a very short period of time-which was director Ed G. Ulmer's specialty! I don't mean to quibble, but I haven't found many sources that find this even close to being the "first noir"...Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) is generally accepted as first (Silver and Ward: Film Noir-An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style). Others cite The Maltese Falcon...regardless, Detour is a very good noir film, and it should take the place, along with Big Combo, of any of the films listed that were made in the 1930's.
Just my 2 cents worth
Thanks,
Gary
I too was surprised that "Detour", the grand daddy of the genre, was missing. I caught this last year on TV without knowing what it was and was fascinated.
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