The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown

Another one I've seen!

#90 I Want to Live! - Susan Hayward's big Oscar moment. That's what had me watching this film, which I've seen a few times. I mean, what a title - it says it all, and activates our curiosity because the emotional melodrama connected with the condemned does really interest us. Behind it all you have a justice system which cruelly twisted a lot of what happened - which can be an argument against capital punishment. I mean, you can't overturn anything once the person is dead. I have I Want to Live on DVD, and really didn't expect it to show up on the film noir countdown, but I think it's cool that it has (yeah, yeah, mostly because it's actually something I've seen.) To me, personally, I think killing is wrong even if it's the state that's mandating it. I simply think killing is wrong full stop - unless it's in self defense.

I've never heard of Brighton Rock, but it sounds really interesting.

Seen : 2/12
Heard of but not seen : 1/12
Never heard of : 9/12

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I'm a bit ashamed to admit I haven't seen any of the films in the top 100 so far. I gotta add them all to my watch list.


0/12 in my list
0/12 seen

I've seen both films on today's reveal. I Want to Live! is a movie I saw as a kid. My parents were pretty liberal with what I watched so I saw it before I even reached my teens. As I've only seen it that one time, some details have diminished but I remember Susan Hayward being great, and that ending really struck me. It didn't unsettle me as a kid but it made me realize that a woman could be sentenced to death, something I didn't know at the time. I've never forgotten the film but never thought of it as a Noir film since I haven't sought the film out since the one viewing.

I saw Brighton Rock just last year and thought Richard Attenborough was fantastic in it. His role as Pinkie was a wonder. Not that I didn't think he could pull it off, it's just that I'd never seen him in anything other than a good guy role so I really dug him in it, even though he played a murderous thug in it.

Still 0/0 on my list.

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"Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley."

I've seen both of today's noirs. I watched I Want To Live! back when I was doing a Susan Hayward filmography watch. I hadn't really been familiar with her work previously but when I watched The Forrest Rangers (1942) I notice she had something special about her so I watched all of films. She made a wide range of films including other noirs and westerns. Some were pretty great and some were just OK but she was always worth watching when on screen and that's how I came across I Want To Live!....what a powerful ending, wow it gives one chills.

no votes. i remember liking brighton rock well enough.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

Haven’t seen either, although I have heard of them.
Pretty rough start for me, but I figured it might be

Don't think I've heard of any since the last time I chimed in. The really question feels like at roughly what point in the countdown it'll start switching from, "haven't heard of," to "haven't seen," to, "seen, but not on my ballot."


So far, I think the only one I've seen is the one I voted for, Gaslight, which I had apparently forgotten I had voted for).

Like many of us here there is a select list of fellow MoFos that when they praise a film it goes straight to our Watchlist and you are very much one of them for me. Adding the short view time it was even easier to make the time to check out and enjoy, so thank you so much!

#88 He Walked By Night (1948)

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
Production: Bryan Foy Productions
Cast: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts
27 Points, 4 Lists

#87 The Dark Corner (1946)

Director: Henry Hathaway
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix
28 Points, 2 Lists

Haven't seen either of these.

You keep records or notes about what you watch? I probably should've started doing that years ago. I can never remember what I watched and what I thought of it if the movie was 10 years or longer ago.

Doc, what a date! Did you ever keep up with the young lady and know whatever happened to her?

Man, two more I haven't even heard of!

Some noir fan I turned out to be!

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I think I'm 0/14

Same. Look forward to check some of these, though.

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I don't think. I *AM* 0/14

Dang, I haven't seen those two either. What's happening???

Seen both, voted for neither. He Walked By Night was pretty good. I thought The Dark Corner was just alright.

Seen: 12/14

He Walked By Night was my 25. Watched it for this list and thought it was fantastic. Looked amazing.

The Dark Corner is another for the watchlist

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I've seen He Walked by Night. It was pretty good but didn't make my list. Haven't seen the other.