Film noir: your favourites

the thing about noir alley is eddie will tell you upfront if the movie is shit or not, which absolutely enhances the experience

eddie is a good source

He is marvelous in person if you get the chance to catch him at a Noir City festival.

when i was sick recently i worked my way through his list of his favorite 25 noir movies, that was how i came across In A Lonely Place

Just looked and In A Lonely Place is in one of the noir anthologies on my shelf. It's called Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s. Might have to pull it out.

From the 1940s, here are Vera Caspary’s famous career girl mystery Laura; Helen Eustis’s intricate campus thriller The Horizontal Man; Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place, the terrifyingly intimate portrait of a serial killer; and Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall, in which a wife in wartime is forced to take extreme measures when her family is threatened.

The 1950s volume includes Charlotte Armstrong’s Mischief, the nightmarish drama of a child entrusted to a psychotic babysitter; Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant The Blunderer, which tracks the perverse parallel lives of two men driven toward murder; Margaret Millar’s Beast in View, a relentless study in madness; and Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold, a hard-edged tale of robbery and redemption.

Mischief is AMAZING. It was apparently adapted into a movie called Don't Bother To Knock which I've never seen.

ooh that sounds like a great collection