The Maltese Falcon.
The Maltese Falcon was released on the 18th of October 1941 New York, USA.it was consider it the first in the dark film noir genre in Hollywood. The Warner Brothers, so impressed with his work signed John Huston to screen write and direct the film. It stared Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. Bogart plays a private detective, Sam Spade, takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals and a manipulating Brigid O’Shaughnessy, played by Aston, competing to obtain a jewel encrusted falcon, the audience with a distinctly down-beat conclusion and bitter taste.
Double Indemnity.
Double indemnity was released on the 24th of April 1944 in USA. A sleazy thriller about adultery directed by Billy Wilder the film went on to be one of the classic film noir’s and was nominated in seven categories for Academy Awards. The film is centred round planning a murder of a husband involving an insurance sales man (Fred Mac Murray) by the house wife (Barbra Stanwyck) like most film noir the motive is money.
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