Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, by Eddie Muller (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2021, Running Press, 448p.--E-BOOK VERSION)
EACH BLOG POST REPRESENTS A CHAPTER IN THE BOOK.
FILM ANNOTATIONS ARE IN THE ORDER OF THEIR DISCUSSION IN THE BOOK.
CLICK ON ANY T.O.C. LINK (COLOR AND UNDERLINE) TO LINK TO THE ANNOTATIONS FOR THAT CHAPTER.
CHAPTERS THAT HAVE LINKS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED OR ARE IN PROCESS.
CHAPTERS IN LARGE TYPE WITHOUT LINKS ARE THE CHAPTER YOU ARE LOOKING AT.
CHAPTERS THAT ARE NOT LINKED ARE CHAPTERS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN ANNOTATED
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: "Welcome to Dark City: Travelers advisory for a safer Journey"
C 6: "Shamus Flats: Lost someone? Gumshoes for hire"
C 7: "Vixenville: Fiefdom of the femme fatale"
C 8: "Blind Alley: Crossroads of coincidence and Fate"
C 9: "The Psych Ward: Where vexed veterans are quarantined"
C 10: "Knockover Square: Deluxe district of heists and holdups"
C 11: "Losers Lane: Street of sorry psychopaths"
C 12: "The Big House: Last stop on a wayward course"
C 13: "Thieves Highway: The risky road out of town"
C 14: "The Stage Door: Enjoy a show... before it's too late
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Chapter 1: "Welcome to Dark City: Travelers advisory for a safer Journey"
*=Blacklisted. For further information see the Introduction.
**=Trailer Available at Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
For other source notes, see the Introduction.
1. City That Never Sleeps (Republic, 1953) (Director: John H. Auer) (Archival Spaces--Jan Christopher Horak)
Top Billed male star: Gig Young (Wikipedia)
Note: Gig Young's life was, in some ways, like a Film Noir. Only the ending was worse, much worse.
Top Billed female star: Mala Powers (London Guardian Obituary--Ronald Bergan)
Note: Cinematographer John L. Russell (WIK) has 45 AFI credits in a 34 year career (1933-1967). He earned one Academy Award nomination: 1960: Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock.
Note: Composer R. Dale Butts (Onlive Archive of California) has 88 AFI credits in a career that spanned 13 years (1944-1957) as a workhorse for Republic. He earned one Academy Award Nomination: 1945, Flame of the Barbary Coast, Joseph Kane.
Note: Muller begins the book with a prototypical Noir. A B Poverty Row film, set in a city, with a lot of darkness, with two of the more weird character parts you will see, and a set piece ending that will leave a mark.
Note: This was Tom Poston's (WIK) debut film.
Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb)
Rotten Tomatoes (RT)
Wikipedia (WIK)
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2. Cry of the City (Fox, 1948) (Robert Siodmak) (Senses of Cinema--Chris Justice)
Note: Robert Siodmak has been called the quintessential Noir Director. Depending on the source, he directed 11 or 12 Noirs. In 1946, three of his films (The Spiral Staircase, The Killers, and Dark Mirror, in total earned 6 Academy Award nominations.
IMDb**
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3. The Long Night (RKO, 1947) (Anatole Litvak)
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4. Dial 1119 (MGM, 1950) (Gerald Mayer)
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5. Union Station (Paramount, 1950) (Rudolph Maté) (WIK)
Maté began his career as a cinematographer and is most well known for The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928) and Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932). He has 78 Cinematography credits (Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers [IEC] as well as 26 AFI Director credits in a career that spanned 43 years (1920-1963). He earned 5 Academy Award nominations for Cinematography and also directed three films where he also had a role as Cinematographer.
Cinematographer Daniel L. Fapp (Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers [IEC]) has 91 AFI credits in a career spanning 40 years (1929-1969). He earned 8 Academy Award nominations and won once (1961, West Side Story, Robert Wise; Jerome Robbins).
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7. The Sleeping City (Universal, 1951) (George Sherman)
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, by Eddie Muller (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2021, Running Press, 448p.--E-BOOK VERSION)
EACH BLOG POST REPRESENTS A CHAPTER IN THE BOOK.
FILM ANNOTATIONS ARE IN THE ORDER OF THEIR DISCUSSION IN THE BOOK.
CLICK ON ANY T.O.C. LINK (COLOR AND UNDERLINE) TO LINK TO THE ANNOTATIONS FOR THAT CHAPTER.
CHAPTERS THAT HAVE LINKS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED OR ARE IN PROCESS.
CHAPTERS IN LARGE TYPE WITHOUT LINKS ARE THE CHAPTER YOU ARE LOOKING AT.
CHAPTERS THAT ARE NOT LINKED ARE CHAPTERS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN ANNOTATED
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: "Welcome to Dark City: Travelers advisory for a safer Journey"
C 6: "Shamus Flats: Lost someone? Gumshoes for hire"
C 7: "Vixenville: Fiefdom of the femme fatale"
C 8: "Blind Alley: Crossroads of coincidence and Fate"
C 9: "The Psych Ward: Where vexed veterans are quarantined"
C 10: "Knockover Square: Deluxe district of heists and holdups"
C 11: "Losers Lane: Street of sorry psychopaths"
C 12: "The Big House: Last stop on a wayward course"
C 13: "Thieves Highway: The risky road out of town"
C 14: "The Stage Door: Enjoy a show... before it's too late
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