This classic but sometimes overlooked film is generally considered the first film noir, with its extraordinary, radically new look and tone, the product of stylized sets, bizarre angles and lighting, and a powerful blurring of dream and reality--qualities strongly influenced by German expressionist films of the 1920s. A reporter (John McGuire) discovers a murder but via his well-meaning testimo...
This classic but sometimes overlooked film is generally considered the first film noir, with its extraordinary, radically new look and tone, the product of stylized sets, bizarre angles and lighting, and a powerful blurring of dream and reality--qualities strongly influenced by German expressionist films of the 1920s. A reporter (John McGuire) discovers a murder but via his well-meaning testimo...
