1. Film Noir
... Heisler's The Glass Key (1942) for Paramount Studios - again with Ladd and Lake. The noir couple were brought together again in George Marshall's crime thriller The Blue Dahlia (1946), with an Oscar-nominated screenplay by Raymond Chandler (the only work he ever wrote directly for the screen). Orson Welles' films have significant noir features, such as in his expressionistic ... criminal (Tom Neal), who uncharacteristically sought vengeance and accidentally killed the film's blackmailing femme fatale con (Ann Savage) • Tay Garnett's stylish and moody The Postman Always Rings Twice (19...
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