... mean streets, flashing neon lights, and low key lighting. Story locations are often in murky and dark streets, dimly-lit apartments and hotel rooms of big cities. [Often-times, war-time scarcities were the reason for the reduced budgets and shadowy, stark sets of B-pictures and film noirs.] Narratives are frequently complex and convoluted, typically told with flashbacks (or a series ... following a murder. After a double-cross, she was frequently destroyed as well, often at the cost of the hero's life. The First Film Noirs: One of the first detective films to use the shadowy, nihilistic n...

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