AVClub: The original Hollywood film noir era petered out toward the end of the 1950s, or right around the time the cinephile directors of the French New Wave started riffing on it. But well into the 1960s, noir’s expressionistic visual style remained in play for some American auteurs (such as Sam Fuller, John Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, and Stanley Kubrick). And even as mainstream movies turned brighter and broader, a few filmmakers kept returning to the docu-realistic storytelling that dominated noir’s waning years. Writer-director-producer Richard Brooks had more control over his projects than most who worked within the studio system, yet he wasn’t known for any particular stylistic flair. He was a mercurial filmmaker, who preferred...
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