The 1940s and 1950s were considered the height ... the film noir genre has evolved and expanded into new territory, but classic detective noir films, like John Huston's The Maltese Falcon and ...

The movie is a classic example of a locked-room mystery, where it seems impossible that someone could have entered and left the scene – and so the crime must have been committed by someone inside.

The classic noir genre is often associated with the rise of hard-boiled detective stories in the 1940s, which lionized ... there was a resurgence of films that managed to recontextualize the ...