Blog Task 5 – Influence on Hollywood Film Noir (40’s, 50’s & 60’s)

Name at least 3 other films from this period which were being directly influenced by classic German Expressionist films:

Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock

Detective Scottie who suffers from acrophobia is hired to investigate the strange activities of an old friend’s wife. She commits suicide while Scottie becomes dangerously obsessed with her.

FRAME RATE: Vertigo (1958) — PERFECT ORGANISM

Stranger on the Third Floor by Boris Ingster

Michael Ward, a reporter witnesses a murder at the diner. His influential evidence is enough to prove the accused guilty for the murder. But Ward is clueless about the new secrets yet to be revealed.

Touch of Evil (1958) by Orson Welles

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles). When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies (Joseph Calleia), are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie (Janet Leigh), in jeopardy.

TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) POSTER, US | Original Film Posters Online | 2020 |  Sotheby's

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