Where can I find free film noir movie scripts from 1940 through 1955?
We relished the opportunity to hunt for classic film noir on the Web. A search on “film noir screenplays” turned up some fascinating cinema sites, but produced little in the way of free scripts. Let’s backtrack for a moment and define what we’re looking for. The Internet Movie Database describes film noir as featuring “brooding characters, corruption, detectives, and the seedy side of the big city,” while the informative German-Hollywood Connection tells us that the term is commonly associated with the era between 1940 and 1959. Next, we browsed the Connection’s noir filmography as well as a list of over 400 noir films from the IMDb. The first filmography was shorter and matched up well with your parameters. W
