Let's not forget that Marcel Carné ˇnd Jean Renoir in France,
as well as Thorold Dickinson, Carol Reed and Alfred Hitchcock
in England, used all the props that later would be called
noir. Hitchcock's The Lodger (1926) is pure noir. The German
expressionistic style has already been mentioned; its
influence was very important.
I don't see how Huston and Welles could claim credit for
inventing a cinematic style that was two decades old. At
least the tricks were old. The characters and situations in
Kane and Falcon are typically American.
The more I look at noir as style, the less I like it as a
definition.
Regards,
MrT
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