Hollywoodland

It’s no secret that Rockstar Games’ crime thriller L.A. Noire was inspired by many Noir films from the 1940s. The films of that era have a particular vibe about and an aura of coolness.

One of many L.A. Noire’s many connections to Film-Noir is the collectable film reels. Around Los Angeles, there are 50 golden film reels for the player to collect and each one of them has a title of an actual film that was made during the “Golden Age” of cinema.

Collecting the film reels made me check out some of the films and since the release of L.A. Noire, I have been watching Film-Noir. I hope that me listing all of the films that are golden film reels will get you watching a great genre of film.

All of the information about the films was found on IMDb.

 

Notorious

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

Year of release: 1946

 

Double Indemnity

Director: Billy Wilder

Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Year of release: 1944

 

Body and Soul

Director: Robert Rossen

Starring: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks

Year of release: 1947

 

Detour

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake

Year of release: 1945

 

Scarlet Street

Director: Fritz Lang

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

Year of release: 1945

 

Gun Crazy

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Starring: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger

Year of release: 1950

 

House of Bamboo

Director: Samuel Fuller

Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi

Year of release: 1955

 

Pickup on South Street

Director: Samuel Fuller

Starring: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter

Year of release: 1953

 

Leave Her to Heaven

Director: John M. Stahl

Starring: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain

Year of release: 1945

 

Key Largo

Director: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall

Year of release: 1948

 

The Maltese Falcon

Director:

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George

Year of release: 1941

 

The Big Heat

Director: Fritz Lang

Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando

Year of release: 1953

 

Angels with Dirty Faces

Director: Michael Curtiz

Starring: James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart

Year of release: 1938

 

Strangers on a Train

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman

Year of release: 1951

 

The Asphalt Jungle

Director: John Huston

Starring: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen

Year of release: 1950

 

Touch of Evil

Director: Orson Welles

Starring: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh

Year of release: 1958

 

Out of the Past

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas

Year of release: 1947

 

The Big Carnival (aka – Ace in the Hole)

Director: Billy Wilder

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur

Year of release: 1951

 

Mildred Pierce

Director: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott

Year of release: 1945

 

This Gun for Hire

Director: Frank Tuttle

Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston

Year of release: 1942

 

Sweet Smell of Success

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison

Year of release: 1957

 

Rififi

Director: Jules Dassin

Starring: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel

Year of release: 1955

 

Murder, My Sweet

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley

Year of release: 1944

 

Night and the City

Director: Jules Dassin

Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers

Year of release: 1950

 

The Big Clock

Director: John Farrow

Starring: Ray Milland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Charles Laughton

Year of release: 1948

 

The Naked City

Director: Jules Dassin

Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

Year of release: 1948

 

Shadow of a Doubt

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey

Year of release: 1943

 

The Killing

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards

Year of release: 1956

 

The Set-Up

Director: Robert Wise

Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias

Year of release: 1949

 

Laura

Director: Otto Preminger

Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb

Year of release: 1944

 

The Third Man

Director: Carol Reed

Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli

Year of release: 1949

 

The Lady from Shanghai

Director: Orson Welles

Starring: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane

Year of release: 1947

 

The Killers

Director: Robert Siodmak

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edward O’Brien

Year of release: 1946

 

M

Director: Joseph Losey

Starring: David Wayne, Howard da Silva, Martin Gabel

Year of release: 1951

 

Crossfire

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Starring: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan

Year of release: 1947

 

Thieves’ Highway

Director: Jules Dassin

Starring: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb

Year of release: 1949

 

White Heat

Director: Raoul Walsh

Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien

Year of release: 1949

 

The Narrow Margin

Director: Richard Fleischer

Starring: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White

Year of release: 1952

 

Sunset Boulevard

Director: Billy Wilder

Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

Year of release: 1950

 

 

The Woman in the Window

Director: Fritz Lang

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey

Year of release: 1944

 

The Spiral Staircase

Director: Robert Siodmak

Starring: Dorothy Mcguire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore

Year of release: 1946

 

The Night of the Hunter

Director: Charles Laughton

Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters Lillian Gish

Year of release: 1955

 

Odd Man Out

Director: Carol Reed

Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

Year of release: 1947

 

In a Lonely Place

Director: Nicholas Ray

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame Frank Lovejoy

Year of release: 1950

 

Gilda

Director: Charles Vidor

Starring: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready

Year of release: 1946

 

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Director: Otto Preminger

Starring: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill

Year of release: 1950

 

Nightmare Alley

Director: Edmund Goulding

Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray

Year of release: 1947

 

Brute Force

Director: Jules Dassin

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford

Year of release: 1947

 

The Letter

Director: William Wyler

Starring: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson

Year of release: 1940

 

The Big Sleep

Director: Howard Hawks

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely

Year of release: 1946

 

Which one of these films is your favourite? Let me know in the comments below.

This huge L.A. Noire post was something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now but I’m very happy that I finally got around to doing it. I enjoyed putting this together and I hope you enjoy this piece. Give me your feedback in the comments or tell me on Twitter – @ThatGreenDude95