Shadows. Silhouettes. Smoke. Rain slicked streets. Cynical heroes and dangerous women. Can the intrigue and drama of film noir get any more popcorn worthy?
Click start and see if your cinema trivia is on point.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Hollywood produced some of the most stylish crime dramas ever seen, with its film noir (French for ‘dark film’) genre of filmmaking. These decades also saw the successful transition of hardboiled crime novels onto the silver screen. Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon’ and Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’ and ‘Double Indemnity’ are just three in a long line of fantastic films.
Now it’s time to follow your nose. But don’t worry, in today’s crossword, we have movie clips and trailers to help you along the way.
Can you unravel film noir’s intricate plots and come out with the right answers?
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