James Stewart has appeared in plenty of different movies, spanning a wide range of genres and styles, but he only ever made a single film noir.

A 1940 suspense movie with Peter Lorre is the first true installment in the film noir genre, making it the beginning of a ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

This 1940s crime genre was all about sensual silhouettes, sleek numbers, sultry style accents, and femme fatales draped in dark, dramatic tones.