Ryan Heffernan is an Australian writer and aspiring filmmaker with an Honours degree in Film Production from the University of Canberra. With a great love of storytelling, he adores films with complex characters and challenging narratives. His other hobbies and interests include Australian sports, history and gaming.
The Big Picture Famous for its striking imagery, its convoluted yet entrancing narratives, and its immortalized movie stars, film noir is a storytelling genre which seems to be uniquely cinematic, an impression reinforced by its rise to prominence through the 1940s which coincided with a maturation and refined mastery of film-making. However, despite being one of Hollywood’s defining genres, many of the greatest noir films have actually been based on books.
9 'The Killing' Based on ‘Clean Break’ by Lionel White As Stanley Kubrick’s genuine breakthrough film, The Killing will always stand as an iconic image in cinematic history. However, it is somewhat undervalued as a genuinely brilliant crime noir as well. Based on ‘Clean Break’ by Lionel White, it follows Johnny Clay , a veteran criminal who assembles a team to carry out a heist on a racetrack before retiring and marrying his girlfriend.
7 'Strangers on a Train' Based on ‘Strangers on a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock was a true genius of thriller cinema, with many of his efforts in film noir marking some of the greatest movies the genre has ever seen. One of his most commanding pictures comes in the form of Strangers on a Train, a deadly thriller that follows two strangers who meet on a train and start to learn that each one wants someone close to them dead.
5 'Out of the Past' Based on ‘Build My Gallows High’ by Daniel Mainwaring A brooding and somber film noir bolstered by a sublime starring performance from Robert Mitchum, 1947’s Out of the Past marks a brilliant highlight of the genre’s ability to thrive with atmospheric dread and damnation. It follows a gas station owner in a small town trying to keep his sordid past behind him.
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