HE WALKED BY NIGHT Â directed by Alfred Werker (USA, 1948)
“The streets were dark with something more than night”, wrote Raymond Chandler in the introduction to his short story collection, Trouble Is My Business.
This could be the tag line for practically any of the American Noir movies of the 40s and 50s.
In these films, the criminals and killers lurk in the shadows pursued by upright, squeaky clean agents of the law.
The good versus evil is literally represented in black and white terms with a moralising tone that often makes the films quaint and faintly comical. They are a far cry from the many shades of grey in today’s cynical police procedurals. Continue reading
