Even in the darkest noirs, writers in the classic period deftly wove humor into the script. This comic moment is from Caged (1950) set in a women’s prison block where the inmates are confronted with the sadistic block matron on her day out…
Even in the darkest noirs, writers in the classic period deftly wove humor into the script. This comic moment is from Caged (1950) set in a women’s prison block where the inmates are confronted with the sadistic block matron on her day out…
Ha! It’s interesting how you are now doing some stuff with noir situational underpinnings, especially with the less known films. Most would know the humor in THE MALTESE FALCON, but it is rarer in films that are esentially humorless, like DOUBLE INDEMNITY for example.
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