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A re-do of one of my older videos, a tribute to some of the femme fatales of the film noir genre. Due to time constraints, I had to leave a few out (such as Barbara Stanwyck and Mary Astor) but the ones featured here were a big part of the genre and you could see why those men would lose their minds over them; some were not bad, just drawn that way and some were amoral or even murderous and duplicitous. Music by Jack Jones.

Clips from:

"The Glass Key" (1942)
"Laura" (1944)
"Murder, My Sweet" (1944)
"Phantom Lady" (1944)
"Fallen Angel" (1945)
"Scarlet Street" (1945)
"The Big Sleep" (1946)
"Gilda" (1946)
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946)
"The Killers" (1946)
"Dead Reckoning" (1947)
"Out Of The Past" (1947)
"The Lady From Shanghai" (1947)
"Gun Crazy" (1949)
"In A Lonely Place" (1950)