firstclassmovies: LAURA (1944). Gene Tierney is a murder suspect in Otto Preminger’s film noir about a detective who falls for his subject.

wehadfacesthen: Ministry of Fear  (Fritz Lang, 1944), cinematography by Henry Sharp

serafino-finasero: Girls with firearms | Femmes armées – Sandi Mitchell | Ira von Fürstenberg | Michelle Mercier | Angelica Huston | Angelina Jolie | Carole Landis | Alexis Smith | Betty Lou Gerson | Cyd Charisse

of-saudade: GDSP 6 –  Noir – directed by gibsongrand Everyone has a little darkness inside of them.  Let’s see yours. “Me. Sure. I’m decent.” 1) The femme fatale makes her entrance. 2) The femme fatale is tangled in her own web.

a-bittersweet-life: It so happens that the gangster story is a very suitable vehicle for the particular form of modern tragedy called film noir, which was born from American detective novels. It’s a flexible genre. You can put whatever you want into it, good or bad. And it’s a fairly easy vehicle to use to tell…

oldhollywood: Simone Signoret & Paul Meurisse in Diabolique (1955, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot) (via) “I sought only to amuse myself and the little child who sleeps in all our hearts— the child who hides her head under the bed-covers and begs, ‘Daddy, Daddy, frighten me!” -Clouzot, on directing Diabolique