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Noir Film Poll!

🕑 Added 2023-05-28 01:31:36 +0000 UTC

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Smooticus

I voted for Dial M for Murder (not exactly noir, but still a good movie y'all should see), but i'm really surprised it won with as big a gap as it did

Smooticus

Looks like you're about to be disappointed

Neal Romanek

Shadow Of A Doubt is one of my Hitchcock faves.

Neal Romanek

Holy cow! So many good movies here! Strangers On A Trains is pure Hitchcock - not so much noir - but is amazing and you should watch it however you can. There are two Billy Wilder masterpieces here that have to go to the top of your list though - Double Indemnity and Sunset Blvd.

Jason Chirevas

DIAL M FOR MURDER isn’t noir, so it’d be nice if it didn’t win.

Robert Boyd

Yes, I really enjoyed Lifeboat. It was my first introduction to the great Tallulah Bankhead.

Paul Cox

Another single-setting Hitchcock film I love is Lifeboat, though it's not even the least bit noir. Something about it stayed with me in a way others didn't, and I rank it among my most favorite Hitchcock works.

Robert Boyd

The best representations of film noir in this list are Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep and Kiss Me Deadly. The Maltese Falcon was a great film noir. Dial M isn’t really film noir but deserves to be seen. It was Hitchcock’s only film to be shot in 3D and takes place almost entirely in one setting. Hitchcock previously did this with Rope, which does take place entirely in one setting and in real time. Actually, Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt is a great film noir. It’s also my favorite Hitchcock film. Hopefully, it eventually will end up on a list.

Birdie Num Num

FYI, that "lady" that Christopher robbed in Sopranos that you didn't recognize is Lauren Bacall, star of The Big Sleep with her husband Humphrey Bogart. They had one of the more celebrated romances in Hollywood history.

daron85

Holy shit this is hard. Every single one of these are amazing.

Catherine LW

Yes I’m shocked that Laura isn’t on this list. Classic film noir.

Paul Cox

You're inventing subtext. I just meant that the only predictable thing about the internet is its unpredictability.

Shawn Brink

People SHOULD behave the way that I want them to. Euphemism meaning that people on the internet are stupid.

Kevin Charley

Why would you watch the quintessential one first? You gotta build up to that.

JayWantsACat

Ok...? "At some point" could mean after they react to literally every old school noir film. I wasn't demanding they do so immediately, just "at some point". And you should probably search "maltese falcon reaction" on youtube.

Korny

Dial M is amazing but I’m surprised Sunset isn’t doing better.

Korny

Thanks for the help, I figured it out and voted appropriately.

Tyler Foster

While I don't disagree that there are many, many great neo-noirs, I would definitely feel like the classic noirs are the ones that need a fair shot on reaction channels rather than neo-noirs. I obviously don't watch every reaction channel but TBR is the only one I know of to have even done The Maltese Falcon.

Tyler Foster

Are the boxes square? If the selection buttons are square with a checkmark you should be able to check further options after you've checked one. If they are round with a dot in the center then you can only choose one option.

Michael Soukup

Couldn’t agree more Jarrod.

PIG

I love the genre but I don't know enough. I won't vote but I look forward to what's chosen.

Korny

Yep, that’s my favorite on the list with Sunset Blvd being second.

Korny

Blood Simple is great. Thanks for the thoughtful post.

Korny

Hmm, as soon as I touch one of the boxes it immediately shows results with no other voting options.

Jarrod Hornbeck

Out of the Past is the quintessential noir and should be the first one they watch and react to.

Paul Cox

Hitchcock dominating a genre poll he shouldn't be in, but losing a director poll he should be in contention for winning. Ahh the internet 🙃

Michael Buhl

Tough call between Sunset Blvd. and The Third Man for me, but I finally went with Sunset.

David Martin

I don't think of Dial M for Murder as a film noir. Certainly it's less of a film noir than the other choices here.

Birdie Num Num

Some other essential noirs not mentioned - Out of the Past, Detour, Criss Cross, The Asphalt Jungle, Nightmare Alley(the original), Night and the City, Scarlet Street, Too Late for Tears, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Fallen Angel, Black Angel, The Big Heat, Key Largo. and many more...

Birdie Num Num

here are 1000 noirs worth a look(includes neo noir etc) https://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm

David Martin

I really like The Big Sleep, but Bogart needs a poll of his own.

INFJ-T Tyrone

Google? It's the 50's and 40's What is this Google you speak of. I demand to see the manger! 😡😆😆😆

Birdie Num Num

I wish Out of the Past was in the poll. But I would get bummed if it got only a few votes. In the real world, most noir historians rank it at least top 5 noir. I consider it the definitive noir. And regardless of genre, it has some of the best dialogue of all time in any film.

Birdie Num Num

This is the only poll I've seen where all films are worth voting for IMO.

Birdie Num Num

It would be nice if only people who've seen all the films on the poll were allowed to vote, haha.

Tyrone Tyrone

A once a month Noir would be GREAT.

Tyrone Tyrone

If you're a movie buff with a sense of film history, Noir is going to surprise you with how great some of the dialogue is. And you'll constantly be saying is that a young so and so or wow, she or he was great but they didn't go on to further stardom I wonder what happened.

Birdie Num Num

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Bennett Holleman

You want to see something worth viewing, vote for Touch of Evil. Orson Welles' last Hollywood picture.

VivendoBem

You have great taste! Out of the Past may not be the most famous noir, but it's probably the greatest. It's almost the Platonic Ideal of a classic noir picture. The 1980s remake, Against All Odds is actually pretty terrific, though mostly forgotten.

John Frilando

Shadow of a Doubt. Directed by Hitchcock is in my opinion the 3rd best Hitchcock film behind Psycho and Rear Window. It is powerful

David Martin

An often overlooked, but an excellent example of the genre, is Out of the Past, with Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas (in his first speaking role) and the gorgeous and talented Jane Greer. Greer is a femme fatale in the most complete definition of the term -- beautiful, deceptive, and deadly. So many classic scenes. If you like Double Indemnity, I think you'll love Out of the Past. Every movie on this list is worth watching. Hard to make a choice.

Paul Cox

You know you can vote for multiple options, right? (But yes, I hope Spinal Tap gets a fair shake in the future.)

JayWantsACat

I hope at some point you two take a look at neo-noir films. Some modern takes really do the genre justice.

Korny

I have 4 that I want to watch with them but I don’t want to waste my vote like I did with Spinal Tap. What to do…

William 1611

These are all excellent films, and I know that y'all are concentrating on the classic noir movies. My most enthusiastic vote goes to "Strangers on a Train." For future reference, however, I hope you'll see some of the very good noir films made since the 80s, such as "Hollywoodland" (2006), with Ben Affleck; "The Black Dahlia" (2006), Brian De Palma's take on one of Hollywood's grisliest murders; and "Mulholland Falls" (1996), not to be confused with Lynch's "Mulholland Drive." These three films have all the elements of the classics, and they're all set (obviously) in Los Angeles, as many noir classics were.

Athos Count de la Fère

Touch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles. Fantastic cinematography. Oh, and a movie not on this list should be "Laura" 1944 directed by Otto Preminger. Also "The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946 with Lana Turner.

Tim Raths

Gun Crazy is an underrated one.

Paul Cox

A lot of you haven't watched Double Indemnity and it shows.

Tyler Foster

This is a great list. Only thing about suggesting further noirs is that when we're talking about anything that's older than the 1970s I think the drop-off between the "big" titles and the "obscure" titles is going to be pretty sudden and pretty wide -- you're going to have big guns like Maltese Falcon and Touch of Evil and then you're going to have lots of stuff that 10-50 people who vote in these polls have seen. If I were trying to think of some titles that might stand a chance, I would suggest Laura (1944), The Big Combo (1955), and one of my all-time favorite noirs, In a Lonely Place (1950). Also, every year I try and participate in my friend's online film challenge #Noirvember, where you watch a noir every day in November. I've never managed to go a whole month doing one a day but I have seen a ton of great noir. Last year I saw a great one by Fritz Lang called Secret Beyond the Door (1947), so I'll suggest that too. I also agree with Eddie: you may not want to do Hitch's whole filmography but maybe all of the Hitchcock movies should go on their own recurring Hitchcock poll. Also, speaking of filmographies, you know I'm still hoping for a Coen filmography run, so I gotta mention that their debut feature Blood Simple (1984) is an all-time great neo-noir, and they returned to the genre years later with The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).

TBR Schmitt

LOL -Sam

Kevin Charley

I voted for every movie.

Philip Davetas

All these are amazing. But my personal favorite is GUN CRAZY.

Birdie Num Num

Love Hitch, but wish he wasn't included in these polls since he always wins. He's sort of his own genre, not pure noir(like Double Indemnity, Big Sleep etc). Hitch's style began before the noir cycle in 1920s/1930s Great Britain. Noir began in 1941(according to most textbooks) in the US with Maltese Falcon. So he wasn't influenced by all the crimes films that suddenly popped up with similar themes in the 40s/50s. Sorry, I'm a bit of a noir historian, I take the genre very seriously(and I was the one who suggested the noir poll! thanks for giving it a shot!)

Brandon Royce

Sweet Smell of Success should be on a future poll like this. It's in my Top 10 films of all time-It just happens to be Noir.

TBR Schmitt

*As a reminder, as we get these comments on every single poll, we have not seen these films. If you disagree with the genre pairing of a film, you'll have to take it up with the folks at Google ;) -Sam

Tim Raths

Dial M For Murder isn’t really a film noir.

Paul Cox

Odd Man Out (1947) is one to be considered in future polls. It's a man against the clock sort of film where every minute counts. Riveting! And James Mason is brilliant.