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Watching it right now, and couldn't remember if it is noir or some other style I've heard you film buffs discuss. I've never seen it before...


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Ah, “The stuff that dreams are made of.”

Film noir, no doubt about it.



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My remarks about this film can be found in the Lair. I've commented on it several times. To me, it's not Film Noir. It's the tail end of Warner Brothers pre-war crime film cycle. If anything, The Maltese Falcon is proto-noir, but what it is to me is a Humphrey Bogart film.

Call it a personal quirk. but it's like Cagney's White Heat. It's not Film Noir. It's a Cagney film. Dig?

You could fill a stadium with the film buffs who disagree with me on this. Nevertheless...


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I enjoyed the movie.

Ever since we got a DVR, I have been trying to watch at least one old movie a month to see "what all the fuss was about" Brando, Bogart, etc.

TCM has the little pre-movie thing where they talk about the stars or the director and such. Pretty cool.


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I don't care what it's classified as, it's just a great movie for me.
Of course, I'm a big Bogart fan... I've got almost every Bogie film ever made in my collection.




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