With additional funding from these foundations and individuals and by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. The end of world war ii in 1945 brought an era of homecoming, of rediscovering family, of rebuilding. That year, hollywood premiered the best years of our lives, a story of a returning veteran and his family that won the Academy Award for best picture of the year. But another picture premiered that year that portrayed a different version of america. It was called detour, about a man who wandered from a life of little possibility to one of total doom. The Motion Picture Association First reviewed the picture, they refused to give it a rating. It had broken a rule. The murderer was not brought to justice at the end. Instead, he was left to wander aimlessly on american highways. For such stark stories, these films had their own look. Though they were uniquely american, french film critics came up with the name that stuck film noir, w
And the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. The end of world war ii in 1945 brought an era of homecoming, of rediscovering family, of rebuilding. That year, hollywood premiered the best years of our lives, a story of a returning veteran and his family that won the Academy Award for best picture of the year. But another picture premiered that year that portrayed a different version of america. It was called detour, about a man who wandered from a life of little possibility to one of total doom. The Motion Picture Association First reviewed the picture, they refused to give it a rating. It had broken a rule. The murderer was not brought to justice at the end. Instead, he was left to wander aimlessly on american highways. For such stark stories, these films had their own look. Though they were uniquely american, french film critics came up with the name that stuck film noir, which literally translates black film. They were black and white, they
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