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Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the monthly noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the fun is tr read more

Pre-Code Crazy is the monthly series here at Shadows and Satin and over at the blog of my pal Kristina, Speakeasy, where each month we recommend a pre-Code film for you to watch on TCM – we never know what the other has selected until we post, and we try to keep our lengthy streak intact by never read more

I’m telling you, every year it seems that Noirvember goes by faster and faster. One second, I’m planning out my posts for the month, and the next I’m writing this post – the last one for Noirvember 2025. But I can’t complain; it’s been lots of fun, as always, and I appr read more

Welcome to my penultimate post for Noirvember 2025 – and the last Super Sucker Saturday of the month! A couple of weeks back, I kicked off my “Obscure Femmes” series with that sweet-faced alley-cat in a chinchilla coat, Connie Wallace of The Great Flamarion (1947). Well, turnabout is fair play, read more

Phyllis. Kathie. Kitty. Brigid. We don’t even need their last names – we know exactly who these dames are. They’re some of film noir’s most iconic femmes fatales, and you can bet your bottom dollar that they’re guaranteed to appear on any Top 10 list of dangerous noir dames. But what about read more

Happy Thanksgiving! This final Thursday of Noirvember 2025 celebrates an assortment of Top 10 lists of shadowy delights that I’m thankful for! MEMORABLE ENDINGS Double Indemnity (1944) Decoy (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) They Live By Night (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Breaking Point (1950) Sunset read more

Welcome to Whatshisname Wednesday, where I’ve been taking a look at some noir fellas whose faces you may know, but whose names you almost certainly do not. And for my last Wednesday of Noirvember 2025, I’m shining the light on a total of five noir gents and serving up some tidbits on their personal read more

Happy Tuesday, one and all! It’s about that time . . . time to settle in for one last batch of trivia for Noirvember 2025! Joan Crawford once said that her 1947 noir, Possessed, was her favorite movie. In it, she plays a mentally unstable woman whose obsessive love for her former lover spirals into read more

Well, folks — it’s the last Miscellaneous Monday of Noirvember 2025, but instead of allowing myself to wallow in the doldrums, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been looking forward to this post since before November 1st! For today’s entry, I’m taking a look at Criss-Cross, Stephen read more

You know that saying, if you don’t have anything nice to say . . . come sit next to me? (I mean, I know the original saying was “ . . . don’t say anything at all,” but this is more fun, amirite?) Anyway, for this week’s Sunday Funday, I’m serving up some of the nice, and – even better read more

It’s Super Sucker Saturday again, and have I got a super sucker for you! The luckless, common sense-less fella I’m shining the spotlight on this time around comes from one of my favorite (I know – how many favorites can one person have?) low-budget features – Decoy (1946). This is a movie that read more

Phyllis. Kathie. Kitty. Brigid. We don’t even need their last names – we know exactly who these dames are. They’re some of film noir’s most iconic femmes fatales, and you can bet your bottom dollar that they’re guaranteed to appear on any Top 10 list of dangerous noir dames. But what about read more

Today, on Thankful Thursday, I’m taking a look at memorable character introductions in film noir. There are so many great ones, especially on the distaff side – the ones that automatically come to mind are Gilda (Rita Hayworth), Cora (Lana Turner) in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Kathie Moffat read more

Happy Whatshisname Wednesday! It’s not only hump day – it’s the day of the week when I take a look at those film noir fellas with familiar faces but names that tend to escape us. I’m shining the spotlight today on an actor who was compared throughout his career to Clark Gable (and not necessarily read more

If it’s Tuesday, it’s not Belgium … it’s Trivia Day! Dive in! Robert Mitchum – who served up an iconic performance as Jeff Bailey in Out of the Past (1947) – turned down the role in The Defiant Ones (1958) that would ultimately be played by Tony Curtis. Mitchum, who’d been read more

In 2020, I discovered the “Western Noir” genre through a collection of 11 movies airing on the Criterion Channel. According to author and historian Imogen Sara Smith, who introduced the films, the stories of Western noir could be “transported into an urban setting and fit right in as hard-boiled read more

Earlier this month, instead of the November Film Noir Files, my pal Kristina created a Noir Scavenger Hunt over at her Speakeasy blog, where she invited her readers to provide a noir movie for each of the items on her scavenger list. For this week’s Sunday Funday, I’m joining the hunt to provide read more

So . . . first of all, I can’t believe that Noirvember is half over. But be that as it may, I’m excited to see another Super Sucker Saturday roll around, because today, I’m taking a look at one of noir’s most sad sack suckers – none other than Christopher Cross from Scarlet Street (1945). read more

A couple of years back, during Noirvember, I made the case for why I don’t think the title character of Gilda (1946) is a femme fatale. This year, I’m revisiting this notion with another femme from classic film noir: Laura Hunt of Laura (1945). In a nutshell, Laura is about a beautiful and successfu read more

Take a look at the videos on YouTube and you’d get the impression that pretty much every movie with a murder and a venetian blind is film noir. It’s maddening. I know that noir can often be a slippery little imp, inviting more opinions than there are gin joints in Casablanca. But I’m pleased to read more