<< Recently Jason Boog wrote
"I watched the movie Mulholand Falls this weekend, and I
thought the
combination of noir and dread of nuclear weapons was great.
I was
wondering if anyone knows of any more films or stories or
novels that
combine those two elements?"
In the early '50s Dick Powell, who'd starred in a lot of the
best '40s
noirs, directed a movie called *Split Second* about a group
of people
held hostoage in an area that was about to be the center of
a nuclear
bomb test. The style was more Hitchcokian than noir
(although
Hitchcock tended toward noir a few times), but still might
be
something you'd be interested in. - Jim Doherty
>>
Hitchcock--noirish here and there--pays some attention and
some lip service to
nuclear concerns, if I remember correctly. In Notorious,
isn't the McGuffin
(the powder in the wine bottle) some sort of uranium or
something (I may not
be remembering this correctly)? More fundamentally, however,
and less
classically noir, The Birds is a Cold War film about nuclear
annihilation.
Doug
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