Sentences with phrase «budget film noirs»

At this point, Mann was chiefly making low budget film noirs.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

A very low - budget film noir from the end of that genre's initial period of popularity, 1959's City of Fear seems a criminal carrying a canister of radioactive material (which he believes to be something else) around Los Angeles, threatening himself and others.

Not exact matches

Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.

To get away from the idea of gritty low - budget Noir or any B - movie sense (and because the spy films from James bond on down were making so much money), Warner and Newman went the big time Hollywood route with an all - star cast for the first Harper film including Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Strother Martin and made it a point it was Hollywood getting gritty on its own big time terms.

This is the kind of resourceful, no - budget noir craft that still prompts film lovers to bow down to RKO, despite all the crap the studio gave Orson Welles.

William Castle («The Tingler» / «Strait - Jacket» / «Shanks») directs this low - budget black - and - white enjoyable minor film noir, that comes with a choice narration by the disguised Whistler (Otto Forrest).

This is the kind of resourceful, no - budget noir craft that still prompts film lovers to bow down to RKO, despite all the crap the studio gave Orson Welles, etc. — Joshua Rothkopf