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on 12/17/2025, 8:41 pm, in reply to "Just how will we "face the music" at Noir City next month?"
Films to screen in NC 23 are shown in bold. The ones we correctly guessed are shown in bold italics...
BLUES IN THE NIGHT (1941)
I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)
THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942)
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY (1944)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)
DETOUR (1945)
THE CRIMSON CANARY(1945)
HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)
MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
GILDA (1946)
MURDER IN THE MUSIC HALL (1946)
BLACK ANGEL (1946)
THE KILLERS (1946)
NOCTURNE (1946)
HUMORESQUE (1946)
DEAD RECKONING (1947)
THE FLAME (1947)
I WALK ALONE (1947)
THE MAN I LOVE (1947)
NORA PRENTISS (1947)
ROAD HOUSE (1948)
RACE STREET (1948)
THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1948)
SCENE OF THE CRIME (1949)
DARK CITY (1950)
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950)
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
THE SCARF (!851)
THE RACKET (1951)
THE BIG NIGHT (1951)
THE STRIP (1951)
DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)
AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD (1952)
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1952)
VICKI (1953)
PRIVATE HELL 36 (1954)
NAKED ALIBI (1954)
FACE THE MUSIC aka THE BLACK GLOVE (1954, GB)
THE PHENIX CITY STORY (1955)
KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955)
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (1955)
PETE KELLY'S BLUES (1955)
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)
THE HOUSTON STORY (1957)
TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
THUNDER ROAD (1958)
KING CREOLE (1958)
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
THE WILD WILD ROSE (1960, Hong Kong)
ALL NIGHT LONG (1961, GB)
A MAN CALLED ADAM (1966)
ROUND MIDNIGHT (1986)
KANSAS CITY (1996)
So we name-checked six of twenty-four--not too great, but not quite abysmal, either. Ten of the films are from the 1940s, matched by ten from the 1950s. There are two from the sixties, and the festival concludes with two films later than 1980.
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