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- ↑ 30 Overlooked Noir Films That Are Worth Watching — Taste of Cinema
- ↑ Vice Squad (1953) - Turner Classic Movies
- ↑ DVD Talk review of Kiss Me Deadly: The Criterion Collection
- ↑ Vice Squad (1953) - Turner Classic Movies
- ↑ Vice Squad (1953) - Turner Classic Movies
- ↑ 20 best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt|The Independent
- ↑ Film Noir: The Semi-Documentaries - by Michael E. Grost
- ↑ McGee, Scott. "The Phenix City Story". WatchTCM. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
Part semi-documentary, part social problem film, part film noir, Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story (1955) is a one-of-a-kind window into a sordid and fascinating period in American crime history.
- ↑ Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles|Library of Congress
- ↑ Butterflies, beetles, and postwar Japan: semi-documentary in the 1960s: Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema: Vol.9, No 1
- ↑ A Hard Day's Night movie review (1964)|Roger Ebert
- ↑ Film History of the 1960s
- ↑ The St. Valentine's Day Massacre review (1967)|Roger Ebert
- ↑ NOIR CITY 8: LUST & LARCENY! - ScreenAnarchy
- ↑ 10 great New York noirs|BFI
