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Got a favorite noir? Post it here.

We discussed film noir in the second hour of the show today, with an expert, Greg Mank, and Kevin Johnson, who runs a rare books store in Charles Village and who just completed a lush coffee table reference about hard-boiled crime and other novels that became films from the dark side. His book is The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir, 1940-1949. Here's a recent City Paper piece about him.

Here's Kevin's favorites. He notes: "Since everyone knows about the great ones, I picked some that I think are great, but "off the beaten path."
 
1. Whirlpool
2. The Bad and the Beautiful
3. Scarlet Street
4. The Amazing Mr. X
5. A Face in the Crowd
6. Touch of Evil
7. Nightmare Alley
8. The Sweet Smell of Success
9. Ace in the Hole
10. Humoresque
 
Best regards, Kevin
 
Kevin Johnson / Royal Books, Inc., ABAA/ILAB
32 West 25th Street / Baltimore, MD  21218
Phone:  410-366-7329
Web:  www.royalbooks.com

You can ask a question by e-mailing us at midday@wypr.org

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A great Midday show! Thank you- some of my favorites: "Out of the 
Past" "The Big Clock" "The Harder they Fall" and "The Narrow 
Margin" (the original with Charles McGraw) ...  so many of these 
movies were made on limited budgets but, if anything the lack of 
money clearly spurred the ingenuity of movie-making.

Thanks! Matthew J. Mosca, Baltimore, Maryland