Directed by Irving Lerner, the 1958 crime thriller follows a methodical ... who praised Irving Lerner's noir as "The film that has influenced me most." The director was drawn to the film when ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.