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Earliest Film Noirs

Published on Dec 19, 2015

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Earliest Film Noirs

by Dania & Azalea
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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Untitled Slide

  • directed by Boris Ingster & RKO
  • starred Peter Lorre
  • he was a sinister 'stranger'
  • about aftermath from a murder
  • trial testimony
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Citizen Kane (1941)

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Untitled Slide

  • others claim that this was the first
  • a masterpiece
  • directed by Orson Welles

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Untitled Slide

  • first detective film
  • used shadowy film noir style
  • directed by John Huston
  • not the first version though
Photo by Marionzetta