Type | Movie |
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Date | 1944-04-24 |
Tags | film noir |
I liked this film better than The Maltese Falcon. It's got some obvious similarities: the style of the dialogue; the protagonist meeting a woman and falling for her within moments; the woman turning out to be a villain; and of course as film noir there's some other stylistic similarity.
The relationship between Neff and Dietrichson was unbelievably sudden, but otherwise I thought the film's pacing was pretty good. The camerawork was quite good, too: the darkness of the night was very tangible.
Character | Type | Name |
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Barton Keyes | None | Edward G. Robinson |
Edward S. Norton, Jr. | None | Richard Gaines |
Lola Dietrichson | None | Jean Heather |
Mr. Dietrichson | None | Tom Powers |
Mr. Jackson | None | Porter Hall |
Nino Zachetti | None | Byron Barr |
Phyllis Dietrichson | None | Barbara Stanwyck |
Walter Neff | None | Fred MacMurray |
Name | Role | Character |
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Barbara Stanwyck | Actor | |
Billy Wilder | Director / Screenwriter |
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Byron Barr | Actor | |
Edward G. Robinson | Actor | |
Fred MacMurray | Actor | |
Jean Heather | Actor | |
Porter Hall | Actor | |
Raymond Chandler | Screenwriter |
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Richard Gaines | Actor | |
Tom Powers | Actor |