Song: “Angel” by Massive Attack
 
The Letter (1940, William Wyler. Bette Davis)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor)
Shadow Of A Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock. Joseph Cotten)
Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Macmurray)
Murder, My Sweet (1944, Edward Dmytryk. Dick Powell)
Scarlet Street (1945, Fritz Lang. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett)
Laura (1945, Otto Preminger. Gene Tierney)
Detour (1945, Edgar G. Ulhmer. Ann Savage)
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman)
Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor. Rita Hayworth)
The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak. Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster)
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks. Humphrey Bogart)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, Tay Garnett. John Garfield, Lana Turner)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles. Rita Hayworth, Welles)
Out Of The Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur. Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum)
Brute Force (1947, Jules Dassin. Burt Lancaster)
Force Of Evil (1948, Abraham Polonsky. John Garfield, Marie Windsor)
The Set-Up (1949, Robert Wise. Robert Ryan)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed. Orson Welles)
Criss Cross (1949, Siodmak. Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo)
Gun Crazy (1950, Joseph H. Lewis. John Dall, Peggy Cummins)
In A Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950, Huston. Sterling Hayden)
Night And The City (1950, Jules Dassin. Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney)
Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder. Gloria Swanson, William Holden)
Ace In The Hole (1951, Billy Wilder. Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling)
Angel Face (1952, Otto Preminger. Jean Simmons)
Pickup On South Street (1953, Samuel Fuller. Richard Widmark)
The Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang. Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich. Gaby Rodgers)
Night Of The Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton. Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish)
The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick. Sterling Hayden)
Elevator To The Gallows (1958, Louis Malle. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet)
Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
The Naked Kiss (1964, Samuel Fuller. Constance Towers)
 
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I was surprised to not see Nightmare Alley. It’s great,somewhat sleazy entry in the genre from 1947. Carny con-men, Geeks and Tyrone Power. What more could you ask?

Beautiful! Cinema was made for this…
Massive Attack + Film Noir = Paradise…

Great montage. if only more directors would re-discover the beautiful medium of black and white, and if only young audiences could be educated en-masse to appreciate it.

Hi, this is the creator speaking. I wanted to include all the noirs I could easily get my hands on, and some of them I just didn’t see in time, with such classics as BORN TO KILL and NIGHTMARE ALLEY among them. There are 30+ films included, I did what I could.

And Bill, if it’s any consolidation, I’m 20 and I was 19 when I posted my tribute on YouTube; at least there’s one exception to your lamenting.

I certainly wouldn’t include all young people in my lament, it’s just that producers are very nervous of black and white because the mass youth market, which is the biggest audience sector, rejects it overall.

Ten beautiful non-noir b/w film favourites:

Some Like It Hot
The Last Picture Show
The Magnificent Ambersons
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Les Enfants du Paradis
The Innocents
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Portrait of Jenny
Doctor Strangelove
La Dolce Vita

I’m 18 and I have a huge appreciation of classic cinema, though I will grant that there are a dwindling number of young film aficionados. This was a great montage and the music fit perfectly. It was also great to see some of my favorite film noir characters, like Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Phyllis Dietrichson (Double Indemnity), Leslie Crosby (The Letter), Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard), etc. I have always appreciated that film noir was one of the first genres where women could be portrayed as smart, strong and resourceful, even though these women were also shown as evil and usually dead by the time the credits rolled.
Kudos to the creator of this video.

I just saw this montage tonight at the Noir Fesr DC, AFI Silver Spring, MD. I am totally blown away!!  Serena, you have great talent and it was funn to call out the movies and the actors as the clips rolled to the beat. Hat’s off to you. Keep it up!!!!