Sentences with phrase «postwar noir film»
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Hot Warner Brothers star John Garfield was traded to RKO to make this postwar film noir espionage melodrama.
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Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.
In this obsessive film noir, one oddly enough without a femme fatale, the police are the good - guys who take the viewer on a tour of a dark and cynical underworld that opened up in the postwar period.