The films about the tough guys and the femme fatales. Film Noir is Hollywood's truly original vision of the shadowy, smoky underworld. In films from the 40s and 50s, they entertain us with intrigue, conflict, and lust. The Best of Film Noir takes you to that other side of life which only a movie can - the Hollywood of not only yesteryear, but today as well. Films like The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, Double Indemnity, This Gun for Hire, Mildred Pierce, DOA, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Bad and the Beautiful, Detour, Touch of Evil, Out of the Past, including the original coming attraction trailers for Rear Window, Notorious, Vertigo, and many others! Stars such as Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, John Garfield, Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Lee Marvin, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Ingrid Bergman, Fred MacMurray, Alan Ladd, Jane Greer, Janet Leigh, Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman and many more! SPECIAL TO THIS DVD VERSION ONLY! Chapters you can access immediately: Including exclusive interviews and rare Academy Award ceremony footage: The Big Knife: entire trailer, and an exclusive interview with star Rod Steiger. Bogie & Bacall: an interview with Hollywood Studio-era columnist James Bacon-- and very rare footage of Bogie joking with Bob Hope on the 1955 Oscar telecast. A Touch of Evil: a new interview with star Janet Leigh about the re-release of this classic, as well as comments on working with director Orson Welles, from Charlton Heston and actor-producer John Houseman. Jeffrey Wells, Film Critic and Columnist on Noir classics. And condensed versions of two Noir classics: Detour and D.O.A.