Outline for the Presentation (100 Points)

 Who Famed Roger Rabbit?

I.             Introduce your film and provide the premise of the film in three sentences or fewer.




                This Film is the story of where a toon hating private eye Eddy Valiant is Roger Rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of the murder of the famous Marvin Acme. also, this movie involves Judge Doom's evil plot to kill all toons with the "dip" and the destroy Toontown to build the first Freeway in California.

II.            Characteristics and Conventions of the Film that Link it to Classic Film Noir

                1. Ambiguous protagonist 

•  Eddy valiant represents one of the biggest piece of evidence that this film is one of the best representation of film Noir and Neo Noir. I'm not saying that Brick and Chinatown aren't but this is the only film that has Bugs bunny and Mickey together. Anyway, he is retired cop that decided to be a private eye, a hard drinker with a hard life(poor), living and working in the same dirty and old apartment room. like any other protagonist of this genre he has the classic sad that makes him weak and mediocre.(the death of his beloved brother). This makes him hate all cartoons. dispite whats is said he is the old fashion noir detective and a job is job and as he get involved in this case he is able to let his grudge go. this what defines the classic ambiguous character. 

                2. Femme Fatale

• It is impossible to talk about this film with mentioning the stellar appearance of Jessica rabbit as the voluptuous, seductive, ultimate and ferocious femme fatale. she is designed as the perfect woman, since ther first apparence in this film the audience is able to notice sex sexual appeals. her first appearance is her leg sticking out from behind a curtain, right before she sings a song seducing every man in the audience. there is one fact the separate her from all the other femme featales and it is that at the end of the day she is a good heart women that only looks for the ell being of her husband. 

              3. Visual elements.

• The visual elements of Classic Noir are clearly shown in this film.  For example, many of the scenes are at night time place in an urban setting with the classic dark and gloomy wet streets  Also, many other other scenes are places in dark and shadowy alleys  that gives felling of anxiety and paranoia to many of the characters and audience at this point everyone expects anything to go wrong. 

III.          Elements of the Film that Deviate from Classic Film Noir and Link it to Neo Noir

                1.Neo Noir

• In many ways, Noir has evolved to a genre classified as Neo Noir; one that has taken crime,            violence, sex, and murder to a new level.

                3. Intermixing of races.

• the introduction of different races and scenes that show anxieties of our time in this film updates the genres. in the film of the only whites appeared and only their anxieties where shown. 

                2. Neo Nazi Character and Genocide.

• the classic Noir movies such as "Double Indemnity," the violence is not as graphic instead in this film we are able to see brutal murder and massive killing plot from the character Judge Doom.  

Quotes from Outside Sources (These may be inserted anywhere in the outline)

Source One:

Context:  Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
According with Bill chambers author Film review “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”	Jessica is “Based on classic Noir femme fatales like: Barbara Stanwyck, veronica Lan, Lana Turner… [also, this character]… is voice by Kathleen Turner.”	This demonstrates how the director of this film is throwing at the audience and viewers the pure scene of Film Noir at their faces by giving and basing this character in femme fatales of the past.  Equally important is the obvious fact that he chooses Kathleen Turner as the voice of Jessica Rabbit, since she is the femme fatale from the Neo Noir Film “Body Heat;” one that in many ways is the remake of an iconic film from the Classic Noir Period called “Double Indemnity.”

Source Two:

Context: Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
the article “Roger Rabbit’s World” by Robert Castle, claims that the movies takes place	“In a racially separated America [and]… Toons replace Blacks in their roles… By extension, the Toons are barely tolerated minorities relegated in their own ghetto, Toon Town.”	This is one of the biggest updates of Noir in which it includes the intermixing of races. Following this point further, Toons are also undesired minorities thrown in their own ghetto. Then, this reflects the contemporary anxieties of times because this problem is still seen in our society, still many minorities such Blacks and Hispanic are left behind in worst part of the cities or ghettos by the most powerful ethnic groups. The idea of the intermixing of races and the segregation of ethnic groups are the anxieties of times and at the same time elements in which the genre has evolved.

conclusion

•Thus, the film “Who framed Roger Rabbit?” possesses elements of classic Noir such as the detective figure and ambiguous protagonist represented by Eddy Valiant that gets involved in a murder case just for his own morbid curiosity. Jessica Rabbit is the ultimately Femme Fatales that has a seductive and voluptuous body that will hypnotized any man. Fantastic and entertaining plot full of crime, sex, murder and corruption, visual element such as dark alleys, are typical elements of Classic Noir. However, It also has updated elements of Neo-Noir such as brutal murder, cartoons in a serious environment of darkness, racism and segregation of the ethnic minorities, profanity and unexpected twist.

Optional Component:  Film Clip

If you use a film clip in your presentation, be sure that you provide appropriate context or background information and have the clip easily accessible.  After showing the clip, explain how that clip demonstrates aspects of noir or neo-noir.

Context:  Discuss the background situation regarding the film clip:	Provide a brief description of the scene you are showing:	Significance: How does this clip demonstrate conventions or characteristics of noir or neo-noir?

Annotated Bibliography :The dark and the light of Roger Rabbit

Article #1

Robert Castle in his article Roger Rabbit's World explains that most of its plot is full with childish amusements and unreal violence of cartoons. also that most of the plot of this parody is derived from the film "Chinatown." more over this article main focus is one of the most controversial problem in U.S. which is racism "The toons replace black in roles waiters, doormen, [and others]...By extension, the toons are barely tolerated minorities relegated to their own ghetto, Toontown." differently to Film Noir, where the characters where mainly black and subject of racism was never touch, in this film racism takes a big role and becomes the theme. this is one of the elements of Neo Noir in which different races are included. 

Article # 2

int he review of the film "Who framed roger rabbit?" Bill Chambers focuses mainly  in the movie itself than in elements of film noir or  neo noir. this is the story of a private eye "Eddy Valiant(Bob Hoskins)" who used to help toons but after a piano toon fell on his brother he started to hate toons. this event makes him "stand for the heart of darkness." on the other hand in this review is explain about the genocide that toons are facing due the of the Dr. Doon a Nazi figure that wants to build a freeway. this is compare with the water scandal in Chinatown. also it is mention a general gamma of element of film noir, few examples are hard living anti hero, valiant, femme fatale , Kathleen turner, brutal murder, moral curruption, and sex.

Article #3

Brendon Bourzard in his article Roger and me, talks about the how a film that seems to be directed for a young audience, comes up with many scenes where profanity ans sex are presents. moreover, it depicts a very deep analysis about a socially divided america where the minorities (cartoons) lives in their own ghettos. and they are exposed to segregation from the real people, in this case they represent whites.

Article # 4

in this article John Simon in his article " Turn on, Toon in, Drop out." expreses how the minorities are degraded to the lowest level of societies. even in one of the scenes where Eddy Valiant and Maroon are in an office Dumbo appeared and maroon says that he got for a good price and the best thing is that "they work for peanuts".. this is considered an anxiety of the time in Neo Noir.... we still see these minorities such as black and Hispanics working for the minimum wages trying to whatever just to have some money and something to eat.

Article # 5

In the article "The Light and Dark in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? the author talks a about the ambiguous character in this this film who is represented by Eddy Valiant... how this character demonstrates his ambiguity by starting to as happy as cartoon and then being drag to the dark side... and at the end show his noble side again. more over it also talks about other element of film Noir such as the classic wet foggy streets in this film and of course the stellar appearance of the voluptuous and seductive Femme Fatale.

Who framed Roger Rabbit?????

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?? written by Gary K. Wolf, Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman, and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a movie about a hating toon detective that is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. Many elements of classic Noir are very visible in this film, one of them that inevitable  to miss is the appearance of the hard boiled detective, a classic and murderous femme fatale,  and the clueless ambiguous protagonist, murder and sex. On the other hand the elements of Neo Noir makes their appearance also in this film. for example on the traits that I personally admire of this movie is the fact that the directors and writer presented Toontown as the ghettos and the cartoons as the races that are in a lower social position(many of this they included Jewish, blacks and other minorities) and as in many Neo Noir film they involve other cultures and races. another very important scene of this movie that exemplifies the elements of Noir is the resurrection of the sex scene in Chinatown. in this film they just made seems as a simple game of patty cake sending a subliminal message to its audience that mostly gave a sexual allusion.  and at the end, this movie has a very interesting twist in which the femme fatale comes out to be good, and the character that seems very respectable ends up being the bad guy. 

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The Film Noir Essence

From the “The Gold Coast Section,” I have chosen the story number one as an example of noir, the title of the story is “The Girl who Kissed Barnaby Jones.” We can relate this story to one of the best seller film noir novel, Double Indemnity. In this novel the main character is seduced to commit a passionate crime by the femme fatale Mrs. Nirdlinger. The male protagonist Tate seems like a loner and loser, he pretty much looks like he has no life or that he does not have anything to do, once this beautiful woman Cherie calls him he is ready to go, and he actually makes it more clear that will do anything for her” If she asked me to shovel shit I’d asked her she needed shoveled” (287). In this passage it is noticeable how easy he let Cherie controls him to do what ever she wants. Also he allow her to control him for his own convenience, just to get what he wants that in this case is sex” I have a great big boner with Cherie’s name on it”(287). After they sleep together (sex) Cherie as the femme fatale shows Tate the corpse of her husband, she puts an act to excuse the fact that she kills him. But Tate doesn’t really believes her, and this is what make this story different from the character of film noir it has this little twist, Tate decides no to help and instead he fights against her, he ran away from the house and in a desperate he calls the cop.”” He did what Walter from double indemnity was not able to do, he did not trapped as rat in maze in Cherie’s seductive devices, and instead he decided to stay in the good side. Besides this entire plot I did not like the end he gets kill and evil won. Still we get this image of darkness and seduction from film Noir but we get this little twist from Neo Noir that send the message that Now a days crime does pay.

The story that does not classify as film Noir is "Kinship, " in most of the story he author is just narrating the life of the main character. this character is half Filipino man that struggle during his teenage years, he becomes in a gang member and goes back to the Philippines where he finds out about his family roots. at the end of thsi story they just stabbed a  man. i was not able to see much of Noir elements in this story.

Death and gambling in Cali

when i started to read the first story "The kidnapper Bell" i got i little confuse because i could not understand what really those cats were or meant... another important point that i have notice about the stories in this collection is that sex have been exploited to its maximum, many of the characters give a lot of importance to this than the one in Film Noir. 

besides that, the author in the story "The kidnnaper Bell" give us a great description of the place where the "accidental" murders happened. In this story what is mainly mention is the LA river, as we all know this river is very shallow and one of the dirty ones, we might think that would be hard for somebody to get drown or get accidentally kill, but in this case is the contrary. we actually get a very bleak image, first this girl kills a man "accidentally" and then in a desperate action to get the bell back she kill herself also. when he got in the death gril's room  and he sees those cats the author gives a description that let  the readers know desperation and hallucination of this character. Moreover the description of the tunnel gives a suspense where you do not know what is goign to happened as the character goes inside and also claustrophobic.
On the second story, the description is good also, the author tries to make the reader feel like if we are the ones driving in those pack freeways. the illustration of the situation in the hotel is very deatil i as reader could imaging everything in great detail like if i was right there.

Crazy psycho Chick

 the beginning of this story was somewhat boring, but as I read the story of "the method" the story intrigued me more and more until I wanted to reach the end as soon as possible. But once I go there it disappointed me , I was expecting to know what was next after the killing. For example I was hopping that the cops or other authorities were going to discover that she was the killer but no it just emended.  However, I really like this story out of the four we have read.  This one is just different, the story about this hardworking girl named "Holly,"? this is the whole irony of this story, that we see this short and innocent looking girl name “Holly” being promiscuous and describing her sexual relations just as F***ing… also wee see her committing the most evil, sadistic, obsessive ways to kill a man. Moreover, we can notice her ambiguity, she seems like a respectable woman, but once this guy Richard gives her the little push to commit a crime, she deliberated all those evil and murderous thoughts. So, due to the high grade of moral corruption, ambiguity in main character that a girl in this case, the greed , the seduction imply by man on woman to obtain what he wants made this piece of literature more fascinating and interesting, than “Morocco Junction.” This story the narrator that is also a girl is pretty much just reveling the secretes of society and the way that the people from Beverly Hills stereotype others.

That's man, Cholos in Da Hood

When I started to read these stories I could not find any sense to it, because the author just throw the plot to story to the reader(me). Also notice that the language used in one of the stories (Dangerous Days) was very vague or from the hood, but there is a reason it reflected the society (people) that usually lives in those areas low class crime, drug society. In “Midnight in Silicon Alley, the language is more sophisticated due to fact that in that area lives people that has a better social and economic position. This genre has updated in terms of times, the crimes are disastrous and cold blooded, bloody, crimes for drugs and others. More over I was ale to notice that women had a big power, in “Dangerous Days” Athena Powers was a very independent that tries to fulfill her desires by and seducing and controlling not just a man. Powerful woman that gives the order to kill and also do the dirty work herself is she has to, at the end she pretty much end up loving the protagonist. Here we can see how she fits the qualities of femme fatale, but instead of having a man doing the entire dirty job she is capable to use her hands.  In the other story “Midnight in Silicon Alley” we see this organize crime, that is destroying the taboos that film noir could present such as talking about young prostitutes and how this manages to have many women and kids. But also this man downfall is mark by the main wife that could be femme fatale as well that end up pretty much winning with a new man that now has more power.

I will give you one of the card of get out the jail for this blog Mr. Toth

Throughout the process in class, we have been learning about the elements of Classic Noir and Neo- noir, and how to distinguish between both of those types of films. Classic noir were filmed in black and white, the reason that noir films could not provide good lighting wile filming in dark alleys was due to low budgets. The noir films were based from the past, these films were made in the 1940’s witch meant that most of these films were associated to world war 11. But at the years have passed people developed a ne noir witch is now called neo-noir. Neo noir still contains elements of classic noir but their has been much better improvements. Neo noir was developed in the 20th century the neo noir has better budget,which allows them to film in color and provide better lighting for their audience. They are also able to film in a wide range of places. Neo noir films are set of cultural factors of particular moments not from the past. Even though these films were developed in different time they still contain a connection between both of these types of films, they both provide a femme fatale, protagonist, murder, manipulation….. Neo-noir takes the formula of classic noir and integrates new ideas and influences from contemporary film styles to provide new spin on the loneliness and uncertainly that is felt by many of the young and disenfranchised of today" ( Robson). The difference between these films is that the femme fatale is not that strong of a person anymore, language changes, and they show more detailed graphics of the murders and of the sex. But even all in general thir has only been vivid changes between both of these types of noir films. 

Double Indemnity transformed in Cinema

"No, I never loved you Walter -- not you or anybody else. I'm rotten to the heart. I used you, just as you said. That's all you ever meant to me. Until a minute ago, when I couldn't fire that second shot." .....""Is she kidding? Walter thinks so: "Sorry, baby. I'm not buying.'"


"Walter (Fred MacMurray) is Walter Neff ("two f's--like in Philadelphia''). He's an insurance salesman, successful but bored. The woman is Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), a lazy blond who met her current husband by nursing his wife--to death, according to her stepdaughter. Neff pays a call one day to renew her husband's automobile insurance. He's not at home, but she is, wrapped in a towel and standing at the top of a staircase. "I wanted to see her again,'' Neff said


AS we all know the story is about a salesman that goes to visit his client, but he was not there instead he find his client's wife   Phyllis Dietrichson. both engage themselves in a relationship. this relationship leads him to commit a passionate  crime that is to kill Mr. Dietrichson  this action would destroy and take away his his life.
This article also talks about why he decided to team up with Phyllis and what drives him to commits this murder.  here he was driven by greed and lust, moreover in the movie he is also as  a cold man that sees Phyllis more like an object than a women. when he calls her "baby." Phyllis is the women that controls the the insecure loner (walter), by faking that  shecare more about their relationship than  the money . after the Neff murders Mr. Dietrichson, their relationship faded away. Their relationship, was based in the behavior, not impassion. the director of the movie made them bad joke, they form by crime magazine and radio and tv images, that of course are out of reality. 

Unexpected Corruption.

The most engaging  plot, events and scenarios in this book are in the chapters 9-13 that keeps reader hooked up reading and desiring to know the exciting conclusion of the story. Contrary to chapter 14 which has a very disappointing and not satisfying ending. 

In these chapter we can mainly appreciate, the anxiety, suffering and repenting thought that Walter Huff carries on , when he is covering the murder to his co worker in the insurance company, authorities, and to the woman that he fell in love with, in this case Lola.

while reading  this engaging plot, the readers also starts to feel excitement when Walter star to put the pieces of the puzzle together, he discovered that if he wee to kill Phyllis, the would be nobody who knew about the murder, and he would be able to marry Lola. while all this is happening we can see how betrayal forms a very important plan. once he decides to kill Phyllis he tries to execute a plan, he wanted to throw her from a cliff, but once he gets there he get shot. he was betrayed by the woman, the made him commit a passional crime, not just for love but for money also. later on he wakes up on hospital filling pain on chest near his heart where the bullet hurt him, but that pain could also mean pain that he is being carrying on due to the murder that just made lose everything and inclusively that woman he love (Lola). by his side was the detective figure Mr. Keyes that was communicating him that they had the information that the people they needed to discover who was killer.(Lola, Nino, Phyllis). He said that Lola was one those people they had, he suddenly start to think that the authorities were going to hurt her, so, quietly and serious he surrender and confess Keyes that he kill the oil master Mr. Nirdlinger. 

Fianlly we get to the unexpected final that instead of exalting the plot by putting  a final scene  full of punishment and confinement in prison, we have this  Simple opaque ending where we see the moral Corruption, not just commig from walter or Phyllis, but from the cops and the Mr. Keyes that is the one that decides to let the free, change their identity and send them to another place. Here we can see the corruption of all the character and weird and dull ending that film noir present, but this liberty could also mean a new begging for them in which they can start a new life.

Psycho killer woman, that destroyed her life

As everyone in class knows, "Double Indemnity," is a novel that describes how Mr. Walter Huff, a simple insurance seller goes to visit his client, Mr. Nirdlinger to renew his car insurance. but he was not in his house that day, instead he finds a lady with whom he would carry on a twisted and "Doomed love"(filmsite.com).  

"The females in film noir are either of two types - dutiful, reliable, trustworthy and loving women; or femme fatales - mysterious, duplicitous, double-crossing, gorgeous, unloving, predatory, tough-sweet, unreliable, irresponsible, manipulative and desperate women. Usually, the male protagonist in film noir has to inevitably choose (or have the fateful choice made for him) between the women - and invariably he picks the femme fatale who destructively goads him into committing murder or some other crime of passion."

also the relationships are describes such as, " sadistic...doomed love," and "weird [and] erotic"

since the beginning of the story(in the first three chapters), we are able to see how the base of the relation between these two character was very weak. because they did not build a bond of love in their relation, they just got together one day and even know their names and they were kissing each other in one impulse of passion and physical attraction that would lead them to make a pact with the death.This gives a hint to the reader that this relationship will not last and will not bring be fruitful in their future.Phyllis or Mrs. Nirldlinger is a gorgeous woman who uses her charms that only a goddess of beauty would have to seduce and manipulate the insecure loner, in this case Mr. Huff to murder her husband.


In the next chapter (from 4 to chapter 8), we can read the description of how Mr. Huff kills Mr. Nirldlinger, this gives a the touch of thrill and suspense that makes the reader(us) more interested in what would be their next move. finally, he is death, and this event makes the readers believe that everything could be over, that are going get together and get the money. But the contrary occurred, while they are driving  back home after leaving the dead body in the rail track, we can notice how the paranoia and anxiety takes over Phyllis and Walter. moreover in the hurry to get back soon they start to argue, he start to be cold her and tells her to  "drive on or ill sock [her]"(Cain 53). finally they get back to where his car was "[he] got out. [They] didn't kiss. [They] didn't even say good bye. [he]got out of her car, go in [his], started, and drove home (Cain 53). at this point the relationship have started to break, a  line that will soon separate them have been marked. As the time passed he starts to regret killing that man, and realized that he fell on tricks, and now "[he] never wanted to see her again." (cain 54). Here the relationship it is completely destroy from his side, after killing the man and letting her control her to do her desires he stops felling that attraction toward her. this rejection soon would became in hate when he states that he loves her "like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake."(Cain 70)


In contrast, the character from this book fit the specification of film noir. the femme fatale is Phillys that seduces Mr. Walter(protagonist), to make him fall in a doomed to so he will do her desired that in this case was to commit a crime of passion(murder) to get money and to deliberate their evil desires. al of these are important element of film noir that are included in the book

It's dark, Its Murder!!

Reading trough quotes I’ve found myself in a situation, similar to Mr. Huff, when he was planning the murder of Mr. Nirdlinger, and then the idea came up. Because I did not know which quote to pick, then it came up, I chose a quote from “Towards a Definition of Film Noir,” the authors Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in which they state that the primarily moods of Film Noir are “Disenchantment, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt and paranoia. Heroes (or anti-heroes), corrupt characters… obsessive (sexual or otherwise).” All these moods seem to clearly fit the novel Double Indemnity by James M Cain. For example, since the beginning of the story as we read we can notice that the plot and the description of the situation and places are very dull, flat, simple. So, there is not an actual enchantment, as these two authors states in the quotes. We can also notice how these are characters are very ambiguous, because Mrs. Nirdling, at the beginning she plays the caring wife that does not know anything. And Mr. Huff, he is just trying to sell insurances, but later their real intensions come out. In moral corruption, here we have a lady that it is planning the murder of her husband, with the help of the insurance seller, using her step daughter as a witness, only to charge $50,000 from the insurance. We can see at this point Mrs. Nirdlinger does not care about any morality principle, she just want he money and the man she likes. And lastly, they are obsessive and sexual, which is related with the moral corruption in this case, Phyllis without even know this the name of the seller she got obsess with him and vice versa and at the second time these two character meet, they start kissing each other, and teaming up to kill her husband. Is it, just me or these characters have some psychological problem? A few example that show in this book that these characters are evil are is when  Walter says” maybe I’m crazy. But there’s is something in me that loves Death”(18). Or when Phyllis whispers “He’s not happy. He’ll be better off death”(18). So, these characters from the book share the same traits as the characters from the Film Noir. 

D.O.A. (1950)

Cop: "Can I help you?"
Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien): "I want to report a murder."
Cop: "Where was this murder committed?"
Bigelow: "San Francisco, last night."
Cop: "Who was murdered?"
Bigelow: "I was."

The Seduction of our Minds in to Darkness

       Film Noir is film genre that initiated in United States during the decade of 40’s, right after World War II.  During that time of peace and harmony, these black and white films became very popular due to gloomy, dark, crime scenes and in some case their bloody scenes.  These films besides having dark and gloomy looking which made attract the attention of the audience, they are infested with crime, such shooting, staving and other types of killings, also the places in which the story of the movies takes place often had foggy dark nights, gray days or night with heavy rain, and rain slicked streets, which gave it a touch of suspense and thrill to the movie. Furthermore the impressive appearance of the good guys fighting and shooting bad guys or vice versa, gave these a that touch of action and excitement to the movie. And of course the character that could not be missing was the rebellious, sexy, and enigmatic woman, that would play the good girl through the whole movie, and at the end she would become in the serial killer, or  “the bad guy”, she is best know as the “femme fatale”. Other important traits that made these black and white hits more appealing was the glamorous cigarettes, martinis, formal clothes such as trench coats, suits, and Dick Tracy style hats for  men, and for women that enchanting make up, earrings and dresses, that made them not just look beautiful, but really sexy. So, with all these violence and sex appeal, it is visible how the Film Noir invited its own audience to rebel against that harmonic society that was based on “abstinence and political correctness.” An example of a film of this decade movies is “Double Indemnity”

            As decade of 50 started the Film Noir suffered many changes and “psychologically twisted variations.” But these changes not only occurred in the style of clothes that people wore, but on classic plot. The way and the reasons of why the evil characters killed or attack other was different. A big example was ““Gun Crazy” [which was about] two young lovers kill with no motive.” The paranoia, fear, mass killing, psychologically problems seemed to be on of main points of these movies during this decade. All this gave and scarier plot the film that belonged to this genre. A great example of film noir is “Kiss me Deadly,” which about mass killing using an nuclear weapon. So, lets get somber, some popcorn and lets enjoy these, old and full of action and drama films. Let’s start watching TCM channel.

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948)

 “I want you to do something. I want you to get yourself out of the bed, and get over to the window and scream as loud as you can. Otherwise you only have another three minutes to live.”