NOIR or NOT?

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What does everyone think of Night Of The Hunter (1955)? Noir or not?

I think not, it seems more like a twisted fairy tale than a noir.
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Detective Jim McLeod wrote: June 15th, 2023, 8:15 am What does everyone think of Night Of The Hunter (1955)? Noir or not?

I think not, it seems more like a twisted fairy tale than a noir.
More not noir, than noir.
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Noir is a style not a genre so if a film has a dark story and filmed in a Noir Visually Stylistic manner can be a Noir of any genre. So besides the Crime Noir we have Night of the Hunter as a twisted Fantasy Noir, Repeat Performance, Cat People, and Alias Nick Beal, are all Fantasy Noir. Lost Weekend, In A Lonely Place, and Sweet Smell Of Success are Drama Noir, Blood On The Moon, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Pursued are Noir Westerns, , Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Indestructible Man, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Thing and Transitional Noir Seconds are Sci-Fi Noir, I want To Live, Why must I Die, The Wrong Man, Neo Noirs Lenny, and Raging Bull are Bio Noir. Dementia - Daughter of Horror, Transitional Noir The Glass Cage and The Savage Eye are Experimental Noir. Hitchcock made Suspense and Thriller Noir.
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C*i*g*a*rTheJoe wrote: June 24th, 2023, 11:56 am Noir is a style not a genre so if a film has a dark story and filmed in a Noir Visually Stylistic manner can be a Noir of any genre. So besides the Crime Noir we have Night of the Hunter as a twisted Fantasy Noir, Repeat Performance, Cat People, and Alias Nick Beal, are all Fantasy Noir. Lost Weekend, In A Lonely Place, and Sweet Smell Of Success are Drama Noir, Blood On The Moon, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Pursued are Noir Westerns, , Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Indestructible Man, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Thing and Transitional Noir Seconds are Sci-Fi Noir, I want To Live, Why must I Die, The Wrong Man, Neo Noirs Lenny, and Raging Bull are Bio Noir. Dementia - Daughter of Horror, Transitional Noir The Glass Cage and The Savage Eye are Experimental Noir. Hitchcock made Suspense and Thriller Noir.
And don't forget here, CJ...

One Million B.C. (1940)--Neanderthal Noir

And so then of course making its remake...

One Million YEARS B.C. (1966) and filmed in Technicolor--Neanderthal NEO-Noir

(...SEE?!...I learn fast, huh) ;)
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You sure did, lol.
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Hear is a good example of Noir being a style rather than a genre. The Pottersville sequence in It's A Wonderful Life. Nobody is calling It's A Wonderful Life a Noir but that whole Pottersville sequence sure is.

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Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) Noir or not?


This has been on TCM's Noir Alley, though I never thought of it as a "noir". Just a suspense thriller. The only "noir" type scene was the shadowy one where Teresa Wright tells Joseph Cotten to "go away or I'll kill you myself"
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That Darn Cat (1965), is it possible for a Disney film to be noir?


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Detective Jim McLeod wrote: December 20th, 2023, 12:44 pm That Darn Cat (1965), is it possible for a Disney film to be noir?


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Coincidentally, Eddie's been on a cat kick lately, with the publication of his Kiddie/Kittie Noir book...
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