It’s not the obsession with Freud that’s the problem with Rudolph Maté’s 1948 noir The Dark Past.
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Goodness gets very little breathing room in André De Toth’s arresting Crime Wave.
Stuart Heisler’s Among the Living is a poor man’s gene-splice of Fury and Frankenstein.
Is it some kind of joke that I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. was nominated for a documentary Oscar?
Woman on the Run is a film with a crisp noir crust and a gummy melodramatic center.
All three of these films are banal put-ons.
The films were only two of three noirs that Losey made in the year that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death.
Look to He Ran All the Way and Tension as examples of how John Berry was trying to push a melo-noir style.
Any film connoisseur worth their salt knows that the purveyors of this genre aimed low but shot high.