Nathan Cain"
IndieCrime@gmail.com wrote -
Does Day of the Locust count as noir? I picked up a copy the other
day. I've been meaning to read it for years, but I'm having a hard
time getting through it. It's quite bleak, and I've been reading it a
little at a time. I read West's Miss Lonelyhearts the other day, and
that didn't seem very noir to me, but it did remind me very much of
Flannery O'Connor.
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The book I can't speak for, but I would definitely nominate the film version of 'Day of the Locust' (starring Donald Sutherland) as Noir. I saw it in a theatre [wide screen] and remember it as a very powerful experience. It would make a good double bill with 'Sunset Boulevard'.
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