In terms of IMDB scores, besides Maelstrom, director Jacques Turner has the highest score, and it is also one of the most successful works by the male and female protagonists. In the ranking of film noir genres, it ranks approximately 20th. However, in terms of the twists and turns of the story and the plot arrangement, I think this film can get the first place, and the one that can be tied with it is the Ye Changmengduo starring Bogart (ranking about 13). There are many similarities between the two works. For example, the male protagonists are both detectives and extremely clever. The audience does not know what happened, and they have the answer. The story is as tortuous and complicated, and you may need to press pause several times during the viewing process (of course, bad subtitles are also a common problem with DVDs nowadays). Compared with other black films, their narrative methods are simpler, and while stunning people's appetite, they are also complete. In addition, the ending of the film is good.
If you start to pay attention to film noir and plan to choose some to watch, put these two films a little later, otherwise you may have less expectations for film noir.
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