Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era 1940-1959
This is a complete list of all the titles listed in the book "Film Noir Guide - 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959" by Michael F. Keaney. This book is by far one of the most useful and well thought out book in the subject of Film Noir ever published. I Haven't come across another encyclopedic type of film book, which would offer such a wide and extremely useful way of categorizing Film Noir titles under various themes and sub genres - which I have to say is a brilliant idea! -However, it must be pointed out that, although IMDb doesn't recognize all of the movies listed in Keaney's book as Film Noir - it is good to remember just how difficult task it is to categorize precisely what is Film Noir and what isn't. In any case, I would still recommend this book unreserved to anyone interested in Film Noir.
All the movies are listed here by default in the year of release according to the book. However, there are several clear errors with dates in the book, which you can easily correct by choosing "Release Date (US)" as sorting order, because IMDb's dates are remarkably correct, at least when it comes to first date of publish in US, as most Film Noir titles are after all American made. Of course we do need to keep in mind, that there are lots of British Film Noirs, plus quite a few pure Film Noirs made in other countries as well - need I remind that Kurosawa's "Stray Dog (1949)" is an excellent example of non-American made "true" Film Noirs.
Finally, selecting "IMDb Rating" as sorting order, reveals few unexpected results, which are very very interesting, which in turn reveals yet again the incomprehensible way, how IMDb ratings are "calculated" using a truly bizarre formula which uses meaningless values such as "Popularity" and user location.
All the movies are listed here by default in the year of release according to the book. However, there are several clear errors with dates in the book, which you can easily correct by choosing "Release Date (US)" as sorting order, because IMDb's dates are remarkably correct, at least when it comes to first date of publish in US, as most Film Noir titles are after all American made. Of course we do need to keep in mind, that there are lots of British Film Noirs, plus quite a few pure Film Noirs made in other countries as well - need I remind that Kurosawa's "Stray Dog (1949)" is an excellent example of non-American made "true" Film Noirs.
Finally, selecting "IMDb Rating" as sorting order, reveals few unexpected results, which are very very interesting, which in turn reveals yet again the incomprehensible way, how IMDb ratings are "calculated" using a truly bizarre formula which uses meaningless values such as "Popularity" and user location.
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