Film noir became more popular due to its stylistic differences from other films; it also gave rise to many iconic crime, ...
Why it is one of the best film noir movies: Had Chinatown been released 30 or 40 years earlier, this clever, Oscar-winning mystery would have fit right in with other detective dramas of the time.
Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing the noir genre. Often in black ...