This year, the Film Noir Foundation is celebrating films from 1948, and while those movies were made decades ago, many of their themes are still around today. 'Chicago Deadline' has a Chicago reporter (Alan Ladd) looking into the death of a sick woman (Donna Reed) found in a flophouse, but the investigation reveals how she really died. What other city could have Carl Sandburg, Al Capone, and Mayor Richard J. 'I think Chicago has a rich tradition of being a great petri dish for film noir, based on the history of the city and the background and the colorful characters that came out of all that. Rode, who'll introduce 'Chicago Deadline' and a slate of other 'Noir City: Chicago' movies, said the city is a perfect place for noir stories. Two of the 18 movies to be screened, 'Chicago Deadline' and 'Call Northside 777,' center around Windy City reporters and investigations surrounding murders and alleged suspects. 'Call Northside 777' is based on a true story centering around a skeptical Chicago reporter (Jimmy Stewart) and the murder of a policeman. And it really made itself known in Hollywood, even though it was kind of an organic type of thing,' according to the author, film scholar, and Film Noir Foundation board member Alan Rode. 'That was really the high point of the post-World War II film noir movement. Noir City events are held in the Bay Area, Boston, D.C., Chicago, Detroit, Hollywood, New York, and Philadelphia. The event celebrates the cinematic film noir movement, exploring the dark corners of urban America in the post-war period. They're some of the characters movie lovers will see at this year's Noir City: Chicago film festival, opening Friday at the Music Box Theatre and hosted by the Film Noir Foundation.

Music Box Theatre celebrates the darker side of life with Noir City: Chicago 11:06ĬHICAGO (CBS) - What do you get when you combine the appearance of a fortune teller, a lonesome cowboy, coupled with shady lawyers, a few criminals on the run, police investigations with Chicago reporters, and a glamorous femme fatale?

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