Posted by SoCal johnny
on 9/11/2009, 7:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Noir Birthdays - Robert Wise, Edmond O'Brien"
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Rand, those are great posters.
"Born to Kill" is, fits my prime criterion for a Noir. Claire Trevor as the unmonied half-sister is jealous and feels put-upon, but she seems to have some genuine affection for the sister. Almost immediately upon meeting Tierney, she knows him for the killer he is. She should turn him in, but doesn't, consciously making the wrong moral decision.
At this point she goes bad. She leads him on, encourages his seduction of her sister--not that he needed much--and then plans to have him eliminate the sister and go away with her. He has no illusions about her either. Things go south very quickly from there, ending in her ultimate destruction.
Claire Trevor is delicious in this role; Tierney is his usual menacing self
It's not what you saw; it's what you THINK you saw.
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