James Stewart has appeared in plenty of different movies, spanning a wide range of genres and styles, but he only ever made a single film noir.

The film noir genre cuts to the core of the cynical ... during the 1940s with classic films such as The Maltese Falcon, The ...

Although many things happen in film noir, the pleasure of the movies does not always involve the specifics of the plot. Case in point: The Big Sleep, directed by Howard Hawks. When screenwriters ...