Dark Passage (1947) as locus of film noir
The story becomes the anti-communist witch-hunting film noir theme.
Humphrey Bogart
The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context
Huston gives us the essence of film noir on a shoestring.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The film in which Humphrey Bogart made the hard-boiled detective persona his own.