Our effortlessly cool Detective at the center of the danger is Sam Spade, played by the inimitable Humphrey Bogart. The book almost wrote the book on noir fiction. The movie did likewise for film ...
A neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski follows Detective Jake, an expert in marital cases, who is hired by Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband, who constructed the city's water system.
From "Sunset Boulevard" to "The Reckless Moment" to "Leave Her to Heaven," the best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth, but one not always spoken out loud ...