Legendary Film Noir Movies

Various Artists

Twenty-eight songs from the soundtracks of the most popular films of the pre-noir and noir genres. From Michael Curtiz’s 1938 classic ‘Angels with Dirty Faces,’ starring James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, and Humphrey Bogart, to Fritz Lang’s 1953 ‘The Blue Gardenia,’ starring Anne Baxter, and Richard Conte, this edition will transport you back to the dark alleys and smoky rooms of America’s seedy underworld in the 40s and 50s.

Great titles of the classic American film history: “The Roaring Twenties,” “High Sierra,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “Shadow of A Doubt,” “Laura,” “Double Indemnity,” “The Big Sleep,” “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” “Brute Force,” “Body and Soul,” “Force of Evil,” “The Lady from Shanghai,” “Strangers on A Train,” and others.
Included here the exciting world of film noir, where down-and-out heroes fall for irresistible women in a dangerous underworld of crime, intrigue, and lust.

Soundtracks composed by some of the movie music genius such as Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, David Raksin, Miklos Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Hugo Friedhofer, AndrÈ Previn, and others.

“The term film noir (black film) was coined by the French, who saw a common theme that ran throughout many of the American movies of the 1940s and 1950s. Using visual techniques from German expressionism such as darkened sets and chiaroscuro lighting, these films created a tense and unsettling mood that explored feelings of alienation, cynicism, hopelessness and disillusion . . . film noir remains one of the most important and socially relevant genres in


Tracklisting:

01. Angels with Dirty Faces - 1938
02. The Roaring Twenties - 1939
03. The Letter - 1940
04. High Sierra - 1941
05. The Maltese Falcon - 1941
06. Shadow of a Doubt - 1943
07. Laura - 1944
08. Double Indemnity - 1944
09. Mildred Pierce - 1945
10. The Big Sleep - 1946
11. The Postan Always Rings Twice - 1946
12. The Killers - 1946
13. Dark Passage - 1947
14. Brute Force - 1947
15. Out of the Past - 1947
16. Born to Kill - 1947
17. Body and Soul - 1947
18. Key Largo - 1948
19. Force of Evil - 1948
20. The Lady from Shangaï - 1948
21. Scene of the Crime - 1949
22. The Third Man - 1949
23. White Heat - 1949
24. The Asphalt Jungle - 1950
25. The Racket - 1951
26. Strangers on a Train - 1951
27. Macao - 1952
28. The Blue Gardenia - 1953