"Hardboiled and Noir Are Not the Same".
I agree. The noir protagonist is always a tragic figure, doomed by, not just manifesting, one or more character flaws.
"Yep. Definitely doomed."
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"Hardboiled and Noir Are Not the Same".
I agree. The noir protagonist is always a tragic figure, doomed by, not just manifesting, one or more character flaws.
I always thought of his as mostly hard-boiled.
ReplyDeleteHis Kind of Woman has been on a bunch lately.
I'd say Mitchum was hardboiled in that.
Vincent Price was great in that as well.
He was a sub-hero/comic relief.
Out of the Past was indisputably noir, but many of Mitchum's other movies were of the hardboiled variety. <>His Kind of Woman is a fun picture, precisely because of Vincent Price's screwball character, as you mention.
DeleteI am confused. I watched The Long Goodbye 1971 film with Elliott Gould. I couldn't work out which one it was so I looked it up and it was described as a "satirical neo-noir hardboiled" film. Nonethe wiser.
ReplyDeleteThe article mentions Carroll John Daly. I looked further - okay, just Wikipedia - and Daly is recognised as one of the very early hard boiled writers. He created the theme and its essential elements.
ReplyDeleteGiven that, and the fact that he was a fairly prolific writer, I was surprised that I'd never come across any of his work. The Wiki article includes a lot of links to a site where his stories can be read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_John_Daly
Thanks for that info, Gregory. I'll have to check that guy out.
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