Rank, Film, Year, Top 25
1, Double Indemnity, 1944, 3
2, Maltese Falcon, 1941, 7
3, Out of the Past, 1947, 1
4, Gun Crazy, 1950, 6
5, On Dangerous Ground, 1951, 68
6, Asphalt Jungle, 1950, 4
7, Murder My Sweet, 1944, 24
8, Touch of Evil, 1958, 8
9, They Live By Night, 1949, 54
10, Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946, 23
11, Third Man, 1949, 51
12, Laura, 1944, 26
13, Gilda, 1946, 31
14, Detour, 1945, 17
15, Nightmare Alley, 1947, 13
16, Stranger, The, 1946, 147T
17, Phantom Lady, 1944, 49
18, Rififi, 1955, NA
19, Niagara, 1953, NA
20, Sunset Boulevard, 1950, 25
21, Ace in the Hole, 1951, 29
22, Night and the City, 1950, 14
23, Set-Up, The, 1949, 19
24, Hitch-Hiker, The, 1953, NA
25, In A Lonely Place, 1950, 12
26, Key Largo, 1948, 50
27, Lady from Shanghai, 1947, 65
28, Killing, The, 1956, 10
29, Kiss Me Deadly, 1955, 15
30, Where Danger Lives, 1950, NA
31, Panic in the Streets, 1950, NA
32, Big Combo, The, 1955, 30
33, Killers, The, 1946, 5
34, Lady in the Lake, 1947, NA
35, D.O.A., 1949, 9
36, My Cousin Rachel, 1952, NA
37, No Way Out, 1950, 85
38, Big Heat, The, 1953, 20
39, Too Late for Tears, 1949, 88
40, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948, NA
41, Big Sleep, The, 1946, 11
42, Woman in the Window, 1944, 82
43, High Sierra, 1941, 56
44, Mystery Street, 1950, NA
45, Blue Dahlia, The, 1946, NA
46, Scarlet Street, 1945, 21
47, Pickup on South Street, 1953, 35
48, This Gun For Hire, 1942, 72
49, Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1946, 27
50, Strangers in the Night, 1944, NA
Films on his list not mentioned in the Noir Top 25 at all are shown in bold type.
Some stats:
TOP 5 correlation between Chaput/Top 25 poll: 4/5
TOP 10 correlation between Chaput/Top 25: 6/10
11-15 correlation: 1/5
TOP 20 correlation: 8/20
TOP 25 correlation: 8/25
Second 25 correlation: 1/25
NAs by "quintile":
1-10 (0) 11-20 (2), 21-30 (2), 31-40 (4), 41-50 (3)
Number of Top 10 films from Noir Top 25 on Chaput's list: 9/10
Number of 11-20 films from Noir Top 25 on Chaput's list: 8/10
Total number of Chaput Top 50 not in the Noir Top 25 at all: 11 (22%)
All in all, highly idiosyncratic...and clearly Chaput is a big Nick Ray fan, putting two lesser Ray noirs ahead of IN A LONELY PLACE.
The film from the Noir Top 25 top ten missing on Chaput's list: CRISS CROSS.
Films from the Noir Top 25 11-20 picks missing on Chaput's list: THE NARROW MARGIN, RAW DEAL (why he picks Mann's STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT instead is a perfect piece of bafflement).
He has 17 of our poll's Top 20 on his list somewhere, but only 8 in his top 20.
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