Released in 1952, The Big Heat is a celebrated film noir featuring three major names in Hollywood: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. Glenn Ford, an actor who helped headline some of the ...

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.

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

At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths ... an integral part of film noir, a beautiful woman ...

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