Sentence examples for great noir from inspiring English sources

JS: It's a homage to the great noir films.

However, it is considered one of the last great noir dramas.

Still, any great noir lives or dies by its stylishness, and Sharp Teeth has got that in spades.

But the rescue job Serpent's Tail is doing for the great noir writer Derek Raymond is like a holy rite.

If there's a guiding principle that whispers in the ear of every reader of great noir, it's this: Things will not end well.

Welles began and ended his Hollywood career directing and starring in great noir movies, Citizen Kane in 1941, and Touch of Evil, his ultimate cult picture.

Desperate (1947) was Mann's first critical and commercial success and the first of his great noirs.

Elsewhere, Italian director Luchino Visconti adapted Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice as Ossessione (1943), regarded both as one of the great noirs and a seminal film in the development of neorealism.

The state of Texas has long been a hotbed for crime fiction, as evidenced by the enduring reputations of two the greatest noir novelists of the 20th century.

But what can be said for Bing Crosby's crooning priest in the 1944 winner, "Going My Way," which beat two of the greatest noir films, "Laura" and "Double Indemnity"?

Philip Marlowe, the greatest of all fictional private eyes, the creation of Raymond Chandler, arguably the greatest noir writer of them all, is being brought back to life, in a mystery written by the Irish novelist John Banville that is to be published next year.