Por Oliver Oller.
Como una forma de seguir ampliando los conocimientos del intrigante genero del Film Noir, hemos elaborado un listado donde hacemos referencia a los directores que fueron precursores del mismo, así como los más importantes y carismáticos, mencionando sus obras más destacadas, las cuales pertenecieron a ese interesante periodo obscuro que comprendió las décadas de los cuarenta y cincuenta en hollywood. Esperamos sea de su agrado.

  • Fritz Lang: The Woman in the Window (1944) / Ministry of Fear (1944) /Scarlett Street (1945) / Secret Beyond the Door (1947) / House by the River (1950) / Clash By Night (1952) / The Blue Gardenia (1953) / The Big Heat (1953) / Human Desire (1954) / While the City Sleeps (1956)/ Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) /
  •  Billy Wilder:  Double Indemnity (1944) / Sunset Blvd. (1950) / Ace in The Hole (1951)/ Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  • Jules Dassin:    Brute Force (1947) / The Naked City (1948) / Thieves’ Highway (1949) Night and The City (1950)
  • Otto Preminger:  Laura (1944) / Fallen Angel  (1945)/ Whirpool (1949) / Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) / Angel Face (1952)
  • John Huston:  The Maltese Falcon (1941) / Key Largo (1948) /The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  • Alfred Hitchcock:   Notorious (1946) / Shadow of a Doubt (1943) / Strangers on a Train (1951) / The Wrong Man (1956)  
  • Robert Siodmak:  Christmas Holiday (1944) / The Spiral Staircase (1945)/ The Killers (1946) / The Dark Mirror (1946) / Cry of the City (1948)/ Criss Cross (1949) / Deported (1950)
  • Nicholas Ray:  They Live by Night (1949) / Knock on any door (1949) / A woman’s Secret (1949) / In a Lonely Place (1950) / Born to be Bad (1950) / On Dangerous Ground (1952) /
  • Anatole Litvak:   Out of the Fog (1941) /  Blues in the night (1941) / The Long Night (1947) / Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
  • Anthony Mann:  Strangers in the Night (1944) /  The Great Flamarion (1945) / Desperate (1947) / Railroaded (1947) / T-Men (1947) / Raw Deal (1948) / He Walked By Night (1948) / Border Incident (1949) / Side Street (1950)
  • Joseph H. Lewis:  My name is Julia Ross (1945) / The Undercover Man (1949) / Gun Crazy (1950) / The Big Combo (1955)
  • Robert Wise:  The Set-Up (1949) / The Captive City (1952) / The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) / Executive Suite (1954)
  • Edward Dmytryk:  Murder, My Sweet (1944) / Cornered (1945) / Crossfire (1947) / The Sniper (1952)
  • Orson Welles:   The Stranger (1946) / The Lady from Shanghai (1947) / Touch of Evil (1958)
  • Stanley Kubrick:  Killer’s Kiss (1955) / The Killing (1956)
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz:  Somewhere in the Night (1946) / House of Strangers (1949) / No Way out (1950)
  • John Farrow: The Big Clock (1948) / Night has a Thousand eyes (1948) / Where Danger Lives (1950) / His Kind of Woman (1951)
  • John Sturges:  Shadowed (1946) / Mistery Street (1950) / Jeopardy (1953) / Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  • Robert Aldrich:  Kiss me Deadly (1955) / The Big Knife (1955)
  • Raoul Walsh:  They Drive by Night (1940) / High Sierra (1941) / White Heat (1949) / The Enforcer (1951)

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Oliver Oller