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Wow, I completely lost track of this one. But I did vote, back in March. And my ballot looked like this...
1. In A Lonely Place
2. Out of the Past
3. The Third Man
4. Laura
5. Double Indemnity
6. Pickup On South Street
7. Sunset Blvd.
8. The Set-Up
9. The Big Combo
10. Sweet Smell of Success
11. Shadow of a Doubt
12. The Lady from Shanghai
13. The Wrong Man
I'm very happy that Nic Ray's In A Lonely Place won. It's not only my favorite Noir, but one of my favorite movies, period! But that is a very respectable list, and a respectable order, too. As much as I love the Hitchcocks and as good and somewhat underrated as those two are in his own filmography, beyond his name brand recognition I don't think they are two of the very best or key classic Noirs. I was a bit fearful that they were going to migrate towards the top, just because they are Hitch. Our top five or six would be a healthy mix in virtually any discussion of the greatest films the genre has to offer.
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