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“Not So Tangled, It Weaves”
By Raymond Benson
The low budget 1947 film noir drama, The Web, is a fairly typical example of the type of B-picture that many Hollywood studios were churning out in the late 1940s. No one referred to these crime movies as film noir at the time; it wasn’t until the late 1950s that French critics looked back at this body of work and proclaimed, “Sacré bleu! Film Noir!”—and the term stuck.
In the case of The Web, the title is categorized as film noir for being a crime picture shot in black and white by Dp Irving Glassberg with high contrasting light and shadow, a tale that features cynical and unreliable characters, a twisty plot, and some double-crosses. That’s about it, really—there is no femme fatale, and there is a tangible grittiness to other, classic...
“Not So Tangled, It Weaves”
By Raymond Benson
The low budget 1947 film noir drama, The Web, is a fairly typical example of the type of B-picture that many Hollywood studios were churning out in the late 1940s. No one referred to these crime movies as film noir at the time; it wasn’t until the late 1950s that French critics looked back at this body of work and proclaimed, “Sacré bleu! Film Noir!”—and the term stuck.
In the case of The Web, the title is categorized as film noir for being a crime picture shot in black and white by Dp Irving Glassberg with high contrasting light and shadow, a tale that features cynical and unreliable characters, a twisty plot, and some double-crosses. That’s about it, really—there is no femme fatale, and there is a tangible grittiness to other, classic...
- 7/9/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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