Vernon Wells Brittney Powell in Trouble Is My Business #movie #filmnoir #classicmovies

PASSION, MURDER, AND BETRAYAL. JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE.

Private eye Roland Drake (Tom Konkle) cracks cases and romances femme fatales in 1940’s Los Angeles while corrupt cop police detective Barry Tate (Vernon Wells) rules the city. A tale told in the classic style of film noir. Drake has fallen on hard times in a harsh world. He has been evicted from his office and disgraced by a missing persons case. Ruined in the public eye and with the police. it seems like it’s all over for Roland Drake. Then, redemption walks in – with curves. The owner of those curves is a sexy, dark haired beauty named Katherine Montemar (Brittney Powell). She wants his help. Her concern for the disappearance of her family members pulls him into her case – and into bed.

Classic film noir movies from the 1940s and 50s that are freely available on YouTube. Many film noir playlists on YouTube include movies.

Film noir (French for "black film") is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime and drama movies, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

The classic film noir period is considered as being from the early 1940's until the late 1950's. The films that qualify as film noir cinema feature low-key, black and white photography inspired by the chiaroscuro lighting of renaissance art and German Expressionism.

Many film critics and historians have cited Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil as the bookends of the film noir era in Hollywood, of course both of those films were directed by Orson Welles.

Film noir movies were as much a moment in history as they were a look created by a lighting style. It was the post-war era in America. The world, and particularly the returning veterans, had seen horrors the likes of which they'd never imagined.

They'd killed, seen friends killed, liberated concetration camps, witnessed first hand the horrors of a world war. The men who came back had a unique view of the world. One that they were not equipped to talk about.

How did this manifest?

One way was in classic film noir cinema. Picture Humphrey Bogart playing Phillip Marlowe. Or Sam Spade. In either case he was a man with a past, and man capable of violence. A man unsure of right and wrong until the final moment.

This was the hardboiled detective, and the film noir detective is a large part of the genre.