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Noir Film Poll!

🕑 Added 2023-11-23 04:30:13 +0000 UTC

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Neal Romanek

Yes!

Neal Romanek

Also by The Third Man director Carol Reed.

Neal Romanek

Impossible choice.

Neal Romanek

Definitely watch some of the noirs, and then watch Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as a great dessert.

Neal Romanek

Holy crap, there are some great movies on this list!! Going with Double Indemnity cuz that's a great starting place (and you need to start getting more Billy Wilder under your belt), but you can't go wrong with any of them!

Tennessee

"Angel Face" and "Out of the Past" (both with Robert Mitchum) are also great film noirs. "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) would make a fine entry for your next courtroom thriller poll.

Tennessee

You should keep the original "Suspiria" on your radar. It's one of the best visually striking horror movies ever made and has a great soundtrack.

Tennessee

A Giallo poll (stylish Italian thrillers and horror movies) would be nice. Suggestions: Blood and Black Lace (1964), The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971), Deep Red (1975), The Bloodstained Shadow (1978), Tenebrae (1982). Most of them are also fun whodunits.

Slayback

Throw Momma from the train

Paul Kay

How about 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' ?

PIG

I love this Noir train you're doing. I haven't seen any of these movies and I like how your pateron fans are picking good films for me to check out before coming and watching them along with ye. Great channel!

Michael Buhl

For me, it was a toss-up between Sunset Blvd. and The Third Man.

Jim Finley

For #2, do you mean Double Indemnity? Have you been brutally betrayed, noir style, by that treacherous Autocorrect? It was remade in 1981 with the title "Body Heat," starring Kathleen Turner and William Hurt. That's an excellent version too.

Look out, Arbogast!

This may be the most stacked poll ever done for the channel. Not a mediocre film in sight lol. Rooting for every single one!

Will Zamora

I didn't see it the first time, but the second time I read the list

Brandon

I was just thinking the same thing.

iliketostayhome

The Killing is an excellent Kubrick film that almost certainly inspired Quentin Tarantino. It's going to lose, but definitely a forgotten Kubrick gem.

Tim Raths

Laura was the first one I ever watched too and I’ve been in love with the genre ever since.

Paul Cox

If I'd known Odd Man Out would be *this low* in the vote totals (4 out of 359 at present count), I'd never have suggested it. That of course doesn't mean it isn't brilliant, but I guess it's way more obscure than I'd imagined. Not sure why; Carol Reed is a beloved director, James Mason is a beloved star, Criterion gave it a beautiful release. Maybe it being a British film set in Northern Ireland doesn't spark people's interest. sigh

Will Zamora

It’s not Double Identity, autocorrect error?

Will Zamora

The Killing by Stanley Kubrick is great, but so is Double Indemnity

Tim Raths

A recommendation for a future noir poll is Detour (1945). It’s only 69 minutes long and it was a huge influence on Quentin Tarantino.

Robert Boyd

Oh geez, such a great list. I’ve seen most of these movies and you can’t go wrong with any of them. Strangers on a Train is of course Hitchcock. His daughter, Patricia, has a role in the film. Also, the novel was written by Patricia Highsmith who wrote The Talented Mr. Ripely among many other great stories. So you get two great Patricias with that one. Looking at the list made me realize how much of Fargo is styled like film noir. You betcha!

Eric

Also like both! I was JUST thinking about War of the Roses!

ElmSt Reactions

Man i cant think of any of those films lol my memory is rubbish lol

djKENTO

Dark City is also a noir mystery so you can murder two birds with one rock

Luetin

CRISSCROSS

Florian Meier

I recommend also Both !!!

Brandon Royce

Sweet Smell of Success is definitely not going to win this-What a shame. And I second that motion on you two watching, Touch of Evil. That would have been a close second for me!

Michael SCH

Highly recommend Kiss Me Deadly (1955), which ... er ... kinda coincides with one of your other polls.

Tim Raths

I didn’t notice that until just now. 😃

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

Not gonna lie, I only voted for Strangers On A Train because it's the only one I'm slightly familiar with, they reference it in Throw Momma From The Train, which is a Danny De Vito directed dark comedy that I recommend (well that and I also know I really like Hitchcock movies). De Vito also directed War Of The Roses which I recommend even more, also a dark comedy, starring the rest of the Romancing the Stone cast, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and Homer Simpson (the voice actor).

Paul Cox

omg yes High and Low. I know they've done a reaction to Seven Samurai, but I'd love to see a full Kurosawa poll at some point in the future (my favorites are Ikiru and High and Low, but I presume some of his other samurai films would garner more votes before those).

Damon Young

I think you mean Double Indemnity

Gilbert Gonzalez

Recently discovered a pretty good noir/detective movie that surprised me, it’s an early Gary Oldman movie called Romeo is Bleeding (1993). It’s pretty wild but keeps you fully engrossed. Has probably one of the most frighteningly awesome femme fatale villains I have ever seen as well lol

David Martin

A small correction: It's "Double Indemnity". As in an insurance policy.

Sylvan Green

Sunset Boulevard is such a great movie but it’s losing in the polls. Definitely recommend.

Tim Raths

I love Strangers on a Train but Hitchcock films should be on their own poll. It’s almost unfair to put them on a genre poll.

Jimmie V

@Nick of Time ...Saw that 3 times in theaters when it came out and I literally used my movie request pick for another reacter on Lost Highway just over month ago.

Paul Cox

Big time agree! I just saw Out of the Past for the first time a couple weeks ago after hearing/reading people sing its praises for many years and it DELIVERED!

Athos Count de la Fère

Argh!! Too many good ones. I went with my sentimental favorite, "Laura" First film noir movie I ever saw.

Tostito Buddy

Sweet I'm gonna go watch the Maltese Falcon reaction right now. Mack daddy just means best. It's like saying something is the GOAT, only for old fuckers like me.

David Martin

These are all good, but a glaring oversight is "Out of the Past". Kathy Moffett (Jane Greer) is one of the top 3 femme fatales in all of moviedom. She checks all of the boxes: A beautiful, manipulative, deceptive woman who betrays literally everyone she's involved with. Any list of the top film noir movies would have Out of the Past near the top. If you do a Neo-Noir list, "Body Heat" and "The Last Seduction" would be the first ones on the list.

Tyler Foster

Hopefully they at least end up close enough that we get both.

Tyler Foster

Had to retract my vote from Strangers on a Train to try and help out Double Indemnity, which might be *the* film I'd show to someone to try and illustrate what film noir is.

ED209

Be sure to check the restored/director's cut of Touch of Evil if it wins.

Tyler Foster

Great selection of movies. Some other classics I would recommend include: • Notorious (1946) • Stranger, The (1946) • Out of the Past (1947) • Quai des Orfevres (1947) • Ride the Pink Horse (1947) • Secret Beyond the Door (1947) • Thieves' Highway (1949) • In a Lonely Place (1950) • Affair in Trinidad (1952) • Pickup on South Street (1953) • Big Combo, The (1955) • High and Low (1963) The Coens also have a great noir film, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).

Jimmie V

Now would be a good time to remind you guys there's a LOT of amazing David Lynch stuff out there.... specifically "Blue Velvet" is the ultimate noir film, IMO.

TBR Schmitt

What is Mack daddy noir? We have! We’ve seen Casablanca outside of the channel and The Maltese Falcon on the channel! -Sam

Paul Cox

They did Maltese Falcon sort of recently, and they saw Casablanca prior to starting the channel (which is why there's no reaction to it).

Tostito Buddy

The Big Sleep is mack daddy Noir. Have you guys ever watched a Humphrey Bogart movie?

Brian's Dog

I've watched a lot of old movies and saw none of these so I'm excited to expand my catalog.

Paul Cox

Odd Man Out is on my shortlist of favorite movies ever made, but it's got an uphill climb here. I'll be super happy if Double Indemnity wins (and it should).