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Dark City: Film Noir and Fiction

Welcome! This Film and Roman Noir website features noir works in depth. Click on the Film Titles link (here or in the menu) and dive off The Deep End into the movie pages, where you'll find images, memorable lines, plot summaries and reviews. Want to Getaway with a good book instead? Visit the section on Books and Writers!

What's new?
Steven Spielberg's masterful Sci-Fi thriller Minority Report is now out on DVD! Spielberg says he prepared for it by watching the films of John Huston, especially his noirs The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo and The Asphalt Jungle. But we feel Key Largo isn't quite a noir. Sorry, Steve!
Since Tom Cruise races the clock to find a killer in Minority Report, Variety likens it to D.O.A.. Check out the updated page, now complete with plot summary, review, and trivia!
Want more Man On the Run films? Check out This Gun For Hire, the first and possibly best Alan Ladd-Veronica Lake film noir, now complete with a new review.
We've added a fascinating comparison of Dark City to what surely must be its uncredited source: Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (don't tell Alex Proyas we found out!).


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