Starring Steve Brodie, Audrey Long and pre-good-guy Raymond Burr.

Directed by Anthony Mann

Watch Burr chillingly slice a piece of turkey while he roughs up a pair of elderly country folk.

I'm almost ashamed to admit it but until yesterday, I'd never seen this Hitchcock noir.

Stupid question: anybody else seen it? Thoughts? Opinions? Apparently Scorsese said it was an inspiration for his Taxi Driver (1976)…although I'm struggling to see the connection.

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The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir directed by Orson Welles (uncredited) and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.

Although it initially received mixed reviews, it has grown in stature over the years, and many critics have praised its set designs and camerawork.

Limbo is directed by Ivan Sen, best known for the films Mystery Road, Goldstone and Beneath Clouds. It also stars Natasha Wanganeen as Emma, Charlie's surviving sister, and Nicholas Hope as Joseph, the brother of a key murder suspect.

The film was shot in the South Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy, which stands in for the fictional town of Limbo.

Sen's decision to film in black and white accentuates Coober Pedy's otherworldliness, making the pockmarked desert look like a moonscape.

Collins says he can't imagine filming the story anywhere else.

"The whole place feels like a muffled scream, which worked a lot for Charlie," he says.

If you have cable or satellite TV you can catch Eddie Muller's Noir Alley presentation of the 1949 film Impact tonight at midnight Eastern and again at 10am Sunday.

Eddie provides an Intro/Outro to each of these weekly films. Sometimes Eddie is much more entertaining than the films themselves although the film tonight is a pretty good one.

Worth it just to see location shots of 1949 San Francisco & Sausalito.

The goal in our new community is to have fun discussing the directors, cast, cinematography, script, themes, etc of this genre.

Here are a few links for discovering the best films of the genre (if you're inclined to call it that) Note: some of these also include Neo-Noir

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/film-noir/the-best-noirs-of-all-time

https://mubi.com/lists/bfi-screen-guides-100-film-noirs

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-100-best-film-noirs-of-all-time/

https://filmnoir.art.blog/essential-films-noir/

Forget about looking up how to slip arsenic into your husband's Anisette Toast on The Food Network! Let the BFI's handy (and lengthy) recipe card for the noiriest noir! Double your Indemnity, Double your fun!

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