stuck inside?13 of the best noir films set in Los Angeles
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:56 pm
great list to go thru for the lonely nights stuck inside
some real classics
Laced with corruption in the 1940s and ’50s, LA became the birthplace for the literary and cinematic style
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some real classics
Laced with corruption in the 1940s and ’50s, LA became the birthplace for the literary and cinematic style
The films in question grew out of the hardboiled detective genre birthed by novelists like Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler. Notably, two of the movies Frank wrote about—Double Indemnity and Murder, My Sweet, based on novels by Cain and Chandler, respectively—were set in Los Angeles, a city whose glamorous reputation became laced with stories of crime, scandal, and corruption.
The hardboiled fiction of Cain, Chandler, and other Los Angeles-based authors, such as Dorothy B. Hughes and Ross MacDonald, partially arose from the local tabloid journalism of the 1920s and ’30s, which highlighted the city’s enticing dualities.
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