Tennix, I like you already. How about "Night of the Hunter," the only movie directed by Charles Laughton?

Rev. Powell with LOVE and HATE tatoos! Yannow Springsteen drew on that image for "Cautious Man"?
The surreal, nearly artificial way Laughton shot and lit the scenes...weird angles...that shot of Willa dead in the submerged car....I can go on and on, LOL

Mitchum played in some of the great film noir classics, how about "Out of the Past" with Kirk Douglas? Charlie

One of the greatest ad-libs of all time: Mitchum was already a big star when he was busted for marijuana possession in the squeaky-clean Hollywood of the forties. When the coppers booking him asked what his occupation was, Mitchum deadpanned "Ex actor."

How about Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death(1947) laughing as he pushes the old lady in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs.

Glad to see more "film noir" fans on the board!!!! Tommy Udo is one of the all time great heavies in Hollywood, and it almost locked Widmark as a full time heavy! Charlie

Dittos on Widmark. Underrated. Remember Don't Bother to Knock with MM? Victor Mature made one or two. Bogie as Sam Spade. Laura, when Gene Tierney was very young and very, very beautiful, overbite and all. Gotta stop now. I'm getting misty.

Gene Tierney and her overbite. i childhood fantasy remembered. also gail storm in jungle woman.

Gene Tierney and her overbite. a childhood fantasy remembered. also gail storm as "jungle woman."

Gail Storm in "My Little Margie".

i forgot the question. should we start a new thread or keep going until this reaches 100. the votes alone should kick it up there.

While you guys are on the Film Noir mindset (if you are) go and rent/buy an old film directed by Stanley Kubrick called "The Killing" with starring Sterling Hayden (his best role), Marie Windsor and all time film noir stool pidgeon, creep, etc Elisha Cook, Jr. This is a gritty, dirty, low life, heist movie that has some great twists and a really fun ending! One great movie! Charlie

Good Morning Charlie,

I've got to agree with you all the way Charlie about "The Killing". It was Kubrick's second film and made me a life long fan of the great Sterling H. Also, if you are in the mood, there is Kubrick's first film done two years before (1954) titled "The Killer's Kiss" staring nobody of any importance but it's woth a look just the same.

"The Killers Kiss" is another film that is worth viewing, but not as good as "The Killing"! I am a big fan of the Film Noir genre and one of my all time favorite films would be "LA Confidential" a film noir that won several Academy Awards, that very well could have been shot in Black and White! Another great movie of this same flavor is "Touch of Evil" with Orson Welles and Charlton Heston. Of course there are so many great films in this grouping: "Key Largo", "High Sierra", "Out of the Past", "Double Indemnity", "Laura", "Kiss Me Deadly", "The Maltese Falcon" just to name a few!!!!!!!!!!!! Charlie

You have me awe Charlie. You can name all the winners from our generation. Oh, you know "Hombre" with Paul Newman don't you. Do you remember the Mexican vacero who was in Richard Boon's gang, who shot and killed poor old Paul? That guy was the ganster lead in "The Killer's Kiss"

The great Films of the 40's were before my time, but I am a "student" of the film noir genre and really enjoy the black and white, smoke filled screen, with hard boiled characters and femme fatales such as Jane Greer, Rhonda Fleming, Joan Crqwford, Bettye Davis, Veronica Lake and Lauren Bacall for example! Charlie

I'm a fan and student of our great American film history too. I was born in 1944(can you say Old Fart) and I saw all of those films you named at my local theater during my younger years. I really miss them now. The stuff they make in Hollywood today leaves cold for the most part. Oh there are exceptions to this but those are not common. I live out here in the country and have the sat. dish and I hardly ever watch the thing because I usualy can't find something I'm interested in. If you've got some suggestions, I'm certainly open to them.

Lizbeth Scott. "Johnny Eager". Burt Lancaster in that b&w Hemingway short story adaptation, wasn't that also called The Killers? Anyone remember Rita Hayworht singing The Blue Pacific Blues from Miss Sadie Thompson? Anyone see it in 3-D? Oooooooooh.

Got excited and mispelled Hayworth.

If you like film noir, check out "Detour". I don't know if it is popular or obscure (I had never heard of it before I saw it), and I don't think that any of the actors are very famous, but it has the great elements of film noir.