leading him to cross paths with an alluring lounge singer connected to a brutal gangster. Why it is one of the best film noir movies: While not one of his more definitively surreal efforts ...

Humphrey Bogart played a gangster two years before Casablanca - and if he hadn't, the most celebrated role in his career ...

and it came at the end of the great 1940s film noir boom. With such a wide range of gangster films created between the 1960s ...