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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asphalt_Jungle
poster language: German
I think you could all this Expressionist, maybe? All very strong and dramatic, and then, what the hell, is that a cartoon cat in sunglasses coming out of a garbage can?
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The Crooked Web (1955)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crooked_Web
Dude, I get it, she's metaphorically a spider, let it go.
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T-Men (1947)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Men
What. The. Hell. I have no idea what's going on here. It looks more like something from “Silence of the Lambs” than a 1940s movie.
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The Killers (1946)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers_(1946_film)
As previously mentioned the Hemingway work this is based on is a sub-3,000-word story in which nothing "untamed" happens at all except some people pointing guns and liberal use of the N-word. But hey if his name sells a move…
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Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_the_Pink_Horse
OK it can't be just me, right? “Ride the Pink Horse” *really* sounds like a sexual innuendo. In this case it's just a carousel horse, but I think they knew what they were doing…
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The Big Combo (1955)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Combo
That giant hand is unusual: you don't normally get those kind of visual metaphors in Film Noir posters. Also unusual, a disabled character? There's no mention of wheelchairs or disability in the Wikipedia plot summary, though it does describe the fate of one character as “permanently submerged”.
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The Unholy Wife (1957)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unholy_Wife
poster language: Spanish
I love everything about the image of Diana Dors on the left, including that she kind of looks like Hannah Waddingham from Ted Lasso, but also the way the angles of the her arm and her gun complement the angles of her body.
The Spanish doesn't mean "unholy wife" it means "guilty wife", I guess. Maybe "unholy" wasn't right for Catholic countries.
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I Walk Alone (1947)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walk_Alone
This is so garish and over the top, I love it. His little finger seems to have suffered some kind of injury. That's what happens when you trust a dame.
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Nora Prentiss (1947)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Prentiss
She had a lot to learn! For instance how many exclamation marks are too many!!!
I absolutely love the top image though not sure why she's pictured against a damp spot on her wall or tear in the fabric of reality or whatever that is.
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The Price of Fear (1956)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Fear_(1956_film)
poster language: German
“Schonungslos” means “relentlessly” it seems. I like this, although it looks distractingly like the animated show “Archer”.
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Jennifer (1953)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_(1953_film)
The imagery is pretty standard but the wording is wildly over the top. And also confusing. Who's afraid (× 3)? The guy or Jennifer?
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Scarlet Street (1945)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Street
poster language: Italian
Pretty sure that curved, abstract shape in the background is based on a painter's palette, but maybe only because I know the movie is about a painter. I kind of hate that shape because it undercuts the strength of the rest of the design with its strong lines and steep angles.
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Lady in Cement (1968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_Cement
I think this is over the line of what counts as noir but hey it's so bonkers I couldn't delete it. This is THE action picture. Which explains why it disappeared without trace and nobody's heard of it.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice_(1946_film)
poster language: French
Not to body-shame exactly but she seems rather slim for a femme fatale of this era. Maybe that's how the French artist wanted her to look?
Another in a long LONG line of poses where the man is looking intensely at the woman and the woman is not looking at the man.
The simplicity of this makes it great.
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Ministry of Fear (1944)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Fear
I looked up the plot and it centres around Nazis, but also cake, so, you know, six of one…
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Cornered (1945)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornered_(1945_film)
Love the shadows. Love her suit, matching hat and cravat or whatever you'd call it. Don't love the fan over that actor's face, she must have hated this poster when she saw it.
Did you know that the word “cravat” means “Croatian”? You're welcome.
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The Spiral Staircase (1946)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiral_Staircase_(1946_film)
Baffling design choices—a weird 3-D effect where Fleming is holding a poster for the movie of which this is the poster? No spiral staircase anywhere to be seen? That house is a single storey so it's not there, is it?
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Backfire (1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backfire_(1950_film)
poster language: French
“A man has disappeared” in French.
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Human Jungle (1954)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Jungle_(film)
poster language: Italian
I love the painting, kind of impressionist, strong brush strokes and planes; the contrasting sharpness of the letting kind of works against it but still, great stuff.
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Loophole (1954)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loophole_(1954_film)
Very interesting art style here, there's nothing else like it in this collection. It's kind of light and breezy, more romance-novel like.
“Dangerous Enquiry” in French. Not sure why it's “Dangereuse Enquête” and not “Enquête Dangereuse” shouldn't the adjective go first?
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Female on the Beach (1955)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_on_the_Beach
This is very similar to the famous image in “From Here To Eternity”, released just a couple of years before. Except that more clothes.
Wikipedia quotes a review which notes "a hackneyed script and the artificiality and pretentiousness of Miss Crawford's acting style. At the end, the guilty party is revealed in a ridiculous way.”
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Phantom Lady (1944)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Lady_(film)
poster language: French
“The Hands Which Kill” in French. This one absolutely looks like a horror movie rather than a Noir. And not a good one.
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Among the Living (1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_the_Living_(1941_film)
Yet again, one of those very ambiguous poses. Is he grasping her against her will, in which case why is she so cool about it? Possibly because she has that neat little gun tucked away where he can't see it. Now explain why he looks like he's about to fall asleep.
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The Verdict (1946)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Verdict_(1946_film)
Simple, very powerful. This is a classic.
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The Naked Edge (1961)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Edge
All this very specific and forceful cinema-session-management talk about seeing a movie from the beginning implies that people just casually went into a movie at any time they chose and stayed as long as they liked, right?
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Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_in_Cell_Block_11
Dramatic image and lighting, the expressions on their faces really make it. Not sure I'd have chosen robins-egg blue for that guy's shirt, it's a rather incongruous note.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film)
poster language: French
Great imagery/design, spoiled only perhaps by the fact that the artist had never seen a falcon and thought a sulky pigeon would be close enough.
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Detour (1945)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detour_(1945_film)
The whole "scene seen in a mirror" thing is weird. Why bother? Is there something on the dresser which tells me something about the room or the characters? You have to admit this one is different. Having the word "DETOUR" in a sign is a bit on the nose.
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The Dark Mirror (1946)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Mirror_(1946_film)
Once again, the weapon a woman uses is a pair of scissors, it's quite a theme in these images. Not kitchen knives? Too obvious? Sewing is kind of genteel compared to cooking I guess.
Also I keep looking at those green shadow letters and seeing "DABK WIBBOB" which is really distracting.
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Dragnet (1954)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnet_(1954_film)
poster language: German
Dramatic stuff. Interesting that the germans felt it necessary to translate the word "police" on his ID card and that the very dull phrase “major raid” was the best new title they could come up with.
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Journey Into Fear (1943)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_into_Fear_(1943_film)
This is messy but a strong design, I guess. Some of the faces are scary and some of them are a little comic, particularly Popeye, second from the right.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends_(film)
The stars look about as realistic as the little figures on top of a wedding cake.
NB: where the sidewalk ends, your lettering may spill over a bit into the gutter. Plan ahead accordingly.
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The Well (1951)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_(1951_film)
They were right, I did see it sooner or later. I saw it last week so roughly seventy years. I wonder if anyone involved in this poster is still alive so I can call them and say "OK you got me".
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Across the Bridge (1957)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Bridge_(film)
poster language: Spanish
Am I crazy or does his suit not fit him? Also, cute dog. There aren't many dogs in these posters, mostly cats, which are more Film Noir of course.
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Street of Chance (1942)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_of_Chance_(1942_film)
Weird choice to add that stylised knife and dagger, getting in the way of her face and causing me to think it was "street of change" for a moment.
Also not being weird but why does Burgess Meredith look like he has 80s eyeshadow amateurishly applied? You do you, Burgess, live your truth.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_a_Reasonable_Doubt_(1956_film)
Wow, lots of the plot laid out in detail for you here. You could turn up a few minutes late and not need to ask questions. That motif of a man and woman running toward the viewer, the man dragging the woman behind him, is a classic of this poster genre.
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Brute Force (1947)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_Force_(1947_film)
There's something a big weird and … penile … about how his gun is poking out between the letters there, is it just me?
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