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Deeper Into The Shadows: A Dozen Films Noir For The Not-Quite-Neophyte (Part Three)

Part three! It’s over…or is it? (It is, at least for now.)

Part two features Cliford Odets adapted for the screen, John Garfield as a mob lawyer, plus much more.

It’s November, and that means noir!

Gun Crazy is easily in my top five film noirs, probably even in my top three. It’s got everything you need to qualify as a genre classic.

The much-loved actor only helmed one picture, but what a picture it was.

I wrote this introduction for The Mesilla Valley Film Society’s screening of High and Low in July, 2023.

I wrote this introduction for The Mesilla Valley Film Society’s screening of “The Blue Dahlia” in June, 2023.

I wrote this introduction for The Mesilla Valley Film Society’s screening of “Les Diaboliques” in May, 2023.

I wrote this for the Mesilla Valley Film Society’s screening of “The Hitch-Hiker” in March, 2023.

I wrote this introduction for The Mesilla Valley Film Society in April, 2023.