"I know that younger members of the NC audience who have yet to fully pay their noir dues have to be taken into account, but for veteran noir watchers reprising the same domestic product over and over is just so boring."

I totally agree.

When Noir City returned to Chicago this summer after its pandemic hiatus, I scaled back my visits to the Music Box Theater due to the large number of repeat screenings. Twelve of the twenty-one films presented were repeat performances from prior festivals.

I saw seven movies in all. Five of the seven films that I watched were completely new to me. The two familiar repeats that I revisited were "All the King's Men" and "Scandal Sheet."

I deliberately skipped the restoration debut of "The Argyle Secrets" which, in my opinion, simply is not a very good film. Director Cy Endfield did much better work later on his career.