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.

Classic film noir just never gets old ... with Fred Astaire and Cover Girl (1944) with Gene Kelly. Gilda presented her with the same fate. Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn thought the actress ...

The Maltese Falcon (1941) is often hailed as the movie that launched the classic Hollywood noir genre. John Huston marks his directorial debut with this gripping crime drama based on Dashiell ...