Attention U.S. TCM Subscribers: Many experts have claimed that the first identifiable film noir is Boris Ingster's 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor. One can glean just how many of noir's stylish traits are inherent in this film by reading my previous TCM recommendation, without spoilers, here (which includes Saturday evening's and Sunday morning's showtime information throughout the U.S.):
Attention U.S. TCM Subscribers: Many experts have claimed that the first identifiable film noir is Boris Ingster's 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor. One can glean just how many of noir's stylish traits are inherent in this film by reading my previous TCM recommendation, without spoilers, here (which includes Saturday evening's and Sunday morning's showtime information throughout the U.S.):
Attention U.S. TCM Subscribers: Many experts have claimed that the first identifiable film noir is Boris Ingster's 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor. One can glean just how many of noir's stylish traits are inherent in this film by reading my previous TCM recommendation, without spoilers, here (which includes Saturday evening's and Sunday morning's showtime information throughout the U.S.):
Attention U.S. TCM Subscribers: Many experts have claimed that the first identifiable film noir is Boris Ingster's 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor. One can glean just how many of noir's stylish traits are inherent in this film by reading my previous TCM recommendation, without spoilers, here (which includes Saturday evening's and Sunday morning's showtime information throughout the U.S.):
A similar claim might be made for the earlier ON THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE (aka THE FUGITIVE), directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Ralph Richardson as a barber who tumbles into desperate criminality in Dreiser-like fashion. The film opened in October 1939 but was pulled from release when British cinemas were shut down amid wartime fears. Long unavailable, it was invisible to scholars for many years. Score by Miklos Rozsa, who went on to compose for many Hollywood noirs.
