In 1944, John Brahm directed his suspensful period noir, The Lodger, starring the wonderfully silken-voiced Laird Cregar (above left) as a mysterious rooming house guest who may or may not[…]
In film noir, the anima (a female projection of the male unconscious) often takes the form of a femme fatale, a figure that lures the male protagonist to his doom.[…]
Conventional wisdom tells us that the first “true” film noirs were made in the early 1940s, with 1941’s The Maltese Falcon generally considered “the unofficial beginning of the noir cycle”[…]