Stats: Pit Stop #6
Yearly Breakdown
- 1954 = 0
- 1957 = 0
- 1959 = 0
And 1947 just pulled ahead, after 1948 got no votes this week. We also haven't had anything from 1954, 1957, or 1959. What film noirs from those years deserve to be here?
1954 has a few good ones, the best probably being Don Siegel's prison flick
Riot in Cell Block 11 and his
Private Hell 36 with Ida Lupino.
Crime Wave and
Naked Alibi both with Sterling Hayden are fun. Fritz Lang's take on
Human Desire with Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Broderick Crawford has a lot of fans.
Suddenly, where Frank Sinatra plays a bad guy and again stars Sterling Hayden, may be the most-seen Noir of that year due to Sinatra being cast against type, but I would be shocked to see it this high on the collective list.
Wouldn't expect any of those to make it, at this point.
1957 has
Sweet Smell of Success, which is definitely going to be on the list. Nothing else from that year will rise to the top.
1959 had my one-pointer, Sam Fuller's
The Crimson Kimono, but I didn't really expect that one to have a lot of widespread support. Robert Wise's last Noir,
Odds Against Tomorrow with the legendary Robert Ryan plus Harry Belafonte, Ed Begly (Sr.), Gloria Graham, and Shelley Winters, still has a legit shot. If it doesn't make it, it damn well should have been on the list of a hundred.