We discuss classic film noir and also neo-noir, as well as related movie and literary genres. The actors: Burt Lancaster*Robert Mitchum*Alan Ladd*Joseph Cotten*Glenn Ford*Ray Milland*Robert Taylor*Robert Ryan*Richard Widmark*Charles Laughton*Humphrey Bogart*Peter Lorre*John Garfield*Sterling Hayden* The actresses: Barbara Stanwyck*Ava Gardner*Lauren Bacall*Rita Hayworth*Joan Bennett*Joan Crawford*Jane Greer*Yvonne de Carlo*Lizabeth Scott*Gene Tierney* Gloria Grahame*Veronica Lake* The directors: Billy Wilder*Edgar G. Ulmer*Fritz Lang*Orson Welles*Carol Reed, Robert Aldrich*Ida Lupino*John Huston*John Farrow*Anthony Mann*Otto Preminger*Robert Siodmak*John Cromwell*Jacques Tourneur* Jules Dassin* Nicholas Ray* Edward Dmytryk*Joseph H. Lewis* The writers: Dashiell Hammett*Horace McCoy*Raymond Chandler*Jim Thompson*Cornell Woolrich*James M. Cain The movies: Double Indemnity*Phantom Lady*Shadow of a Doubt*The Third Man*Sunset Boulevard*Detour*Kiss Me Deadly*Criss Cross*The Maltese Falcon*The Big Sleep*Farewell, My Lovely*Murder My Sweet*Gilda*Lady from Shanghai*Asphalt Jungle*The Killers* Strange Love of Martha Ivers*The Postman Always Rings Twice*Ossessione*Raw Deal*The Big Clock*Strangers on a Train*Night and the City*Touch of Evil*DOA*The Seventh Victim* Pickup on South Street*The Blue Gardenia*The Blue Dahlia*The File on Thelma Jordon*Cry of the City*Gun Crazy*They Live by Night*Laura*Mildred Pierce*Kansas City Confidential*Woman in the Window* Influences on Noir: Warners gangster cycle*German Expressionist Movies With Noir Influences: Val Lewton RKO horror films like Cat People*Sunset Boulevard*Night of the Hunter*Fury*Call Northside 777* Modern Noir: Chinatown*Blood Simple*LA Confidential*Mulholland Drive*Blue Velvet*The Long Goodbye* SF noir: Blade Runner*Dark City