Table of Contents

Introduction The Films Double Indemnity 1944, 1973 (TV), and Body Heat 1981 Murder, My Sweet 1944 and Farewell, My Lovely 1975 Detour 1945 and Detour 1992 The Big Sleep 1945, 1946 and The Big Sleep 1978 Notorious 1946 and Notorious 1992 (TV) The Postman Always Ring Twice 1946 and 1981 The Killers 1946 and The Killers 1964 Somewhere in the Night 1946 and The Crooked Way 1949 Body and Soul 1947, 1981 and 1998 (TV) Dark Passage 1947 and Johnny Handsome 1987 Kiss Death 1947, The Fiend Who Walked the West 1958, and Kiss of Death 1995 Out of the Past 1947 and Against All Odds 1984 Ride the Pink Horse 1947 and The Hanged Man 1964 (TV) The Big Clock 1948 and No Way Out 1987 They Live By Night 1948 and Thieves Like Us 1974 Criss Cross 1949 and The Underneath 1995 Gun Crazy 1949 and Guncrazy 1992 House of Strangers 1949 and Broken Lance 1954 The Asphalt Jungle 1950, Badlanders 1958, Cairo 1963, and Cool Breeze 1972 D.O.A. 1950, Color Me Dead 1969, and D.O.A. 1988 Night and the City 1950 and Night and the City 1992 No Man of Her Own 1950, I Married a Shadow 1982, While You Were Sleeping 1995, and Mrs. Winterbourne 1996 The Prowler 1951 and Unlawful Entry 1992 Narrow Margin 1952 and Narrow Margin 1990 The Blue Gardenia 1953 and The Morning After 1986 Inferno 1953 and Ordeal 1973 (TV) I, The Jury 1953 and I, The Jury 1982 Rear Window 1954 and Rear Window 1998 (TV) Les Diaboliques 1955, Reflections of Murder 1974 (TV), House of Secrets 1993 (TV) and Diabolique 1996 The Desperate Hours 1955 and Desperate Hours 1990 Night of the Junter 1955 and Night of the Hinter 1991 (TV) A Kiss Before Dying 1956 and A Kiss Before Dying 1991 Ransom 1956 and Ransom 1996 Vertigo 1958 and Mirage 1995 A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) 1960 and Breathless 1983 Conclusions Appendix Bibliography

About the Author

RONALD SCHWARTZ is Professor of Romance Languages and Film at City University of New York. He is the author of six books on Spanish literature, Latin-American literature, Spanish cinema and Latin-American film.

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