Titles and Directors
This film noir features private detective Sam Spade investigating a valuable statuette.
What is The Maltese Falcon?
Iconic femme fatale played by Rita Hayworth.
Who is Gilda Mundson?
Type of establishment where Johnny Farrell works in Gilda.
What is a casino?
Term for a seductive and dangerous woman who leads men toward ruin.
What is a femme fatale?
Global conflict helped shape noir's pessimistic outlook.
What is World War II?
Film about an insurance salesman who becomes involved in murder.
What is Double Indemnity?
Struggling screenwriter who narrates Sunset Boulevard, even though he is dead.
Who is Joe Gillis?
The killer of Sam's partner in The Maltese Falcon.
Who is Brigid O'Shaughnessy?
Visual technique marked by sharp contrasts between light and shadow.
What is low key lighting? OR What is chiaroscuro?
Economic crisis of the 1930s that created disillusionment reflected in noir.
What is the Great Depression?
Post-war thriller set in Vienna, directed by Carol Reed.
What is The Third Man?
Former silent movie star who loses her grip on reality.
Who is Norma Desmond?
What Charles Haskell Jr does in Detour to set the plot in motion.
What is dying?
Noir character type exemplified by Al Roberts and Walter Neff?
What is a flawed protagonist?
European artistic movement that strongly influenced the visual style of film noir.
What is German Expressionism?
Two films directed by Billy Wilder.
What are Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity?
Two characters who conspire to commit murder for insurance money.
Who are Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson?
Visually striking location where Harry Lime meets his fate.
Technique where the camera is titled to one side so the horizon is angled.
What is dutch angle or dutch tilt?
A change in roles caused by WWII.
What is women entering the work force?
The director of Detour.
Who is Edgar G. Ulmer?
Black-market operator delivers the famous "cuckoo clock" speech.
Who is Harry Lime?
Famous line delivered by Norma as she descends the stairs.
What is "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"?
Cynicism, nihilism, pessimism.
What themes or attitudes in film noir?
A philosophical ideal in US society that film noir disproves or critiques.
What is the American Dream?