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  Where Danger Lives (1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Danger_Lives More creepy misogynistic violence, or implied violence. Can we really trace this all back to a post-WWII “crisis of masculinity” because women took over traditionally masculine roles? #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts. [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery] #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  They Drive by Night (1940) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Drive_by_Night Great lurid colour scheme and lighting. I'm slightly distracted by thinking there's no way you could actually get that shot of Bogart driving the car unless the car had been dismantled. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts. [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery] #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Secret Beyond the Door (1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Beyond_the_Door I'm not familiar with this film at all, I'll put it on my very very long list of movies to watch I guess. But at first glance this looks very much like a Bluebeard situation. You may open every door in the house, Joan Bennet, but not that extremely large green one! #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Big Sleep (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sleep_(1946_film) Oh come on, the picture they were born for is “Key Largo”. No wait, it's “To Have And Have Not”, no, wait… I like the design because it's so simple and restrained compared to most of the garish over-the-top ones in the collection. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts. [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery] #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Backfire (1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backfire_(1950_film) poster language: French “A man has disappeared” in French. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts. [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery] #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Across the Bridge (1957) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Bridge_(film) poster language: Spanish Am I crazy or does his suit not fit him? Also, cute dog. There aren't many dogs in these posters, mostly cats, which are more Film Noir of course. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Cornered (1945) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornered_(1945_film) Love the shadows. Love her suit, matching hat and cravat or whatever you'd call it. Don't love the fan over that actor's face, she must have hated this poster when she saw it. Did you know that the word “cravat” means “Croatian”? You're welcome. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Ministry of Fear (1944) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Fear I looked up the plot and it centres around Nazis, but also cake, so, you know, six of one… #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Phantom Lady (1944) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Lady_(film) poster language: French “The Hands Which Kill” in French. This one absolutely looks like a horror movie rather than a Noir. And not a good one. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Female on the Beach (1955) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_on_the_Beach This is very similar to the famous image in “From Here To Eternity”, released just a couple of years before. Except that more clothes. Wikipedia quotes a review which notes "a hackneyed script and the artificiality and pretentiousness of Miss Crawford's acting style. At the end, the guilty party is revealed in a ridiculous way.” #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoi...

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  Loophole (1954) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loophole_(1954_film) Very interesting art style here, there's nothing else like it in this collection. It's kind of light and breezy, more romance-novel like. “Dangerous Enquiry” in French. Not sure why it's “Dangereuse Enquête” and not “Enquête Dangereuse” shouldn't the adjective go first? #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends_(film) The stars look about as realistic as the little figures on top of a wedding cake. NB: where the sidewalk ends, your lettering may spill over a bit into the gutter. Plan ahead accordingly. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts. [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery] #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Price of Fear (1956) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Fear_(1956_film) poster language: German “Schonungslos” means “relentlessly” it seems. I like this, although it looks distractingly like the animated show “Archer”. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Big Combo (1955) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Combo That giant hand is unusual: you don't normally get those kind of visual metaphors in Film Noir posters. Also unusual, a disabled character? There's no mention of wheelchairs or disability in the Wikipedia plot summary, though it does describe the fate of one character as “permanently submerged”. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Ride the Pink Horse (1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_the_Pink_Horse OK it can't be just me, right? “Ride the Pink Horse” *really* sounds like a sexual innuendo. In this case it's just a carousel horse, but I think they knew what they were doing… #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Killers (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers_(1946_film) As previously mentioned the Hemingway work this is based on is a sub-3,000-word story in which nothing "untamed" happens at all except some people pointing guns and liberal use of the N-word. But hey if his name sells a move… #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Asphalt Jungle (1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asphalt_Jungle poster language: German I think you could all this Expressionist, maybe? All very strong and dramatic, and then, what the hell, is that a cartoon cat in sunglasses coming out of a garbage can? #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  T-Men (1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Men What. The. Hell. I have no idea what's going on here. It looks more like something from “Silence of the Lambs” than a 1940s movie. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts. [Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery] #FollowFriday #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Spiral Staircase (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiral_Staircase_(1946_film) Baffling design choices—a weird 3-D effect where Fleming is holding a poster for the movie of which this is the poster? No spiral staircase anywhere to be seen? That house is a single storey so it's not there, is it? #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Crooked Web (1955) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crooked_Web Dude, I get it, she's metaphorically a spider, let it go. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  I Walk Alone (1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walk_Alone This is so garish and over the top, I love it. His little finger seems to have suffered some kind of injury. That's what happens when you trust a dame. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Nora Prentiss (1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Prentiss She had a lot to learn! For instance how many exclamation marks are too many!!! I absolutely love the top image though not sure why she's pictured against a damp spot on her wall or tear in the fabric of reality or whatever that is. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  Journey Into Fear (1943) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_into_Fear_(1943_film) This is messy but a strong design, I guess. Some of the faces are scary and some of them are a little comic, particularly Popeye, second from the right. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

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  The Dark Mirror (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Mirror_(1946_film) Once again, the weapon a woman uses is a pair of scissors, it's quite a theme in these images. Not kitchen knives? Too obvious? Sewing is kind of genteel compared to cooking I guess. Also I keep looking at those green shadow letters and seeing "DABK WIBBOB" which is really distracting. #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir