Orson Welles (The Lady from Shanghai, The Stranger, Touch of Evil)
Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Ace in the Hole)
Fritz Lang (Scarlet Street, The Big Heat)
Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo)
John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle)
Nicholas Ray (They Live by Night, On Dangerous Ground, In a Lonely Place)
Anthony Mann (T-Men, Raw Deal, Side Street)
Robert Wise (Born to Kill, The Set-Up, Odds Against Tomorrow)
Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Crossfire, The Sniper)
Robert Siodmak (Phantom Lady, The Killers, Criss Cross)
The Best Director of Film Noir
There were many great directors who've made some of the best in Film Noir, some only made a couple and would never make a Noir again or and some continued in making great crime and suspense films. There were many forgotten directors that have made some great B-pictures and some I didn't have room to mention but these are in my opinion some who've made the films we love.
In your opinion, which director made the best Film Noir, not the best films in general.
I just can't vote!
Would it be Fritz Lang? Billy Wilder? Anthony Mann, maybe? Or Robert Wise? And why not Edward Dmytryk or Robert Siodmak?
No, I can't decide.
« I cut myself shaving. »
How do I choose? It's impossible. They are all great.
So was Robert Aldrich, Curtis Bernhardt, John Cromwell., Michael Curtiz, Andre de Toth, Emilio Fernandez, Samuel Fuller, Edmund Goulding, Henry Hathaway, Phil Karlson, Elia Kazan, Joseph H. Lewis, Rudolph Mate, Robert Rossen, Maxwell Shane, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh, and two dozen others whose names escape me.
This one's got me stumped.
Richard
"Passion rules the arrow that flies."
Bob Dylan, 1986.
Sorry, too hard. I could maybe do a top #5 list - but not just one.
yeah... Sam Fuller should probably be there if just for Pickup on South Street... too hard to pick. Mann / Hitchcock / Welles / Wilder. Jeez.
John Farrow? (I know, you couldn't put them all in)
« I cut myself shaving. »
Lang, Hitchcock, Siodmak, Mann, Huston. That'd be my Mt. RushNoir.Originally Posted by David
All of the names in the list are great for different reasons.
Add Stanley Kubrick and Otto Preminger to Richard's list too.
And don't forget Jules Dassin.
Last edited by Hard-Boiled-Rick; 06-01-2010 at 10:23 PM.
I made this one tough, so go right ahead and make a top 5 list.
OK, here's my top 5 (in no particular order):
Anthony Mann
Robert Siodmak
Billy Wilder
Fritz Lang
Edward Dmytryk
« I cut myself shaving. »
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Last edited by Richard; 06-03-2010 at 08:38 AM.
"Passion rules the arrow that flies."
Bob Dylan, 1986.
Edward Dmytryk
Billy Wilder
Robert Wise
Impossible to just pick one, these three men directed some of top favs.
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