The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir

After many long hours, this is my tribute to my favorite genre, to the dark shadows and the profound despair of the soul. I tried to include as many as I could get my hands on, though there are obviously some that I overlooked, some accidently (the absence of “The Sweet Smell of Success“ and “White Heat“ are the most obvious and shameful), some purposefully (save Sam Fuller’s 1964 pulp masterpiece “The Naked Kiss,“ I decided to stay strictly within the 18-year period between 1940 and 1958, so absolutely no