Start
End
StartEnd
Updated:Apr 23, 2026
|Privacy Policy

Film noir and studio crime cycles (1940–1954)

Film noir and studio crime cycles (1940–1954)

  1. Hard-boiled crime stories reach Hollywood screens

    Labels: Hard-boiled fiction, Hollywood studios

  2. The Maltese Falcon sets a new crime-film tone

    Labels: The Maltese, Warner Bros

  3. Double Indemnity crystallizes noir fatalism

    Labels: Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder

  4. Murder, My Sweet popularizes the private-eye noir

    Labels: Murder My, RKO Pictures

  5. Detour shows noir thriving outside major studios

    Labels: Detour, independent film

  6. The Killers brings a fatalistic noir structure

    Labels: The Killers

  7. French critics label the cycle “film noir”

    Labels: Film noir, Nino Frank

  8. The Big Sleep amplifies noir’s cynical glamour

    Labels: The Big, Warner Bros

  9. HUAC hearings disrupt crime-film talent pipelines

    Labels: HUAC, Hollywood Ten

  10. Waldorf Statement formalizes the Hollywood blacklist

    Labels: Waldorf Statement, studio executives

  11. The Naked City advances semi-documentary location noir

    Labels: The Naked

  12. Gun Crazy reflects noir under the blacklist era

    Labels: Gun Crazy, Dalton Trumbo

  13. The Asphalt Jungle turns noir toward the heist film

    Labels: The Asphalt, MGM

  14. Sunset Boulevard turns noir inward on Hollywood

    Labels: Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder

  15. The Big Heat intensifies noir’s police-versus-syndicate conflict

    Labels: The Big, Columbia Pictures