1. "The Asphalt Jungle"
   "The Blackboard Jungle"
2. "The Garment Jungle"
   "The Steel Jungle"

A then-unknown Marilyn Monroe appeared in John Huston's film "The Asphalt Jungle."

1. "Gun Crazy"
   "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
2. "Panic in the Streets"
   "Woman on the Run"

"Gun Crazy," a story about doomed couple Bart Tare and Annie Laurie Starr's crime spree, gained cult following in the 1970s.

1. "Killer's Kiss"
   "Kiss Me Deadly"
2. "New York Confidential"
   "Queen Bee"

Director Robert Aldrich used this visual in his 1955 film "Kiss Me Deadly."

1. LOVE (right) / HATE (left)
   LOST (right) / SOUL (left)
2. HAVE (right) / HOPE (left)
   GOOD (right) / EVIL (left)

The "Preacher" Harry Powell character has LOVE on his right hand and HATE on his left, in "The Night of the Hunter."

1. he's committed a murder
   he's going to commit a murder
2. he's witnessed a murder
   his own murder

In the opening sequence of "D.O.A.," Frank Bigelow goes to the police station to report his own murder.

1. "silent age"
   "golden age"
2. "golden cinema"
   "black or dark cinema"

"Film noir" means "black cinema" (noir means black in French). It was coined by Nino Frank in 1946 to describe the dark, cynical and pessimistic movies happening at that time.

1. first person, voice-over narration
   low lighting
2. plot twist
   all of these are typical in film noir

Voice-over narration, foreboding music and a plot twist or two are all hallmarks of film noir. Throw in a brooding private eye, low lights and a femme fatale with amnesia, and you've got yourself a movie.

1. the decade after World War II
   the decade after World War I
2. the decade after the Vietnam War
   the decade after the Korean War

"Classic" film noir films were made during the decade after World War II.

1. "Cape Fear"
   "The Manchurian Candidate"
2. "Touch of Evil"
   "Vertigo"

The golden age of film noir begins with "The Maltese Falcon's" release in 1941 and ends in 1958 with the release of "Touch of Evil."

1. gnostic noir
   nihilistic noir
2. neo noir
   pastiche noir

Beginning in the early 1960s, certain elements and characteristics of noir films began to change, forming a neo-noir movement. Neo-noir, which lasted from 1962 to 1994, typically had greater emphasis on any psychological motivations of the characters.

1. "Dark Passage"
   "In a Lonely Place"
2. "The Big Sleep"
   "To Have and Have Not"

Nicholas Ray, who directed Bogart in "In a Lonely Place" in 1950, went on to direct James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" in 1955.

1. Kirk Douglas
   Charlton Heston
2. Burt Lancaster
   all of these actors

Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster all made their first big screen debut in film noir.

1. "The Stranger"
   "The Third Man"
2. "The Trial"
   "Touch of Evil"

Orson Welles' film "The Trial," released in 1962, is an adaptation of the novel written by Franz Kafka.

1. "Drive a Cooked Road"
   "Hit and Run"
2. "The Hitch-Hiker"
   "Thunder Road"

The 1953 film "The Hitch-Hiker" begins like this.

1. "The Blue Gardenia"
   "City That Never Sleeps"
2. "I, the Jury (in 3D)"
   "The Hitch-Hiker"

Ida Lupino directed "The Hitch-Hiker."

1. "Alphaville"
   "Blade Runner"
2. "Dark City"
   "Minority Report"

Lemmy Caution is the private detective in the sci-fi noir film "Alphaville," based on the pulp fiction of Peter Cheyney.

1. "The Addams Family"
   "Dragnet"
2. "The Fugitive"
   "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

You may know Dr. Richard Kimball from the film starring Harrison Ford. But before that mid-90s movie, and other remakes, "The Fugitive" was a 1960s TV series that brought noir elements to the small screen.

1. Humphrey Bogart
   Clint Eastwood
2. Robert Mitchum
   Edward G. Robinson

Clint Eastwood was not a film noir leading man.

1. Gloria Grahame
   Jane Greer
2. Barbara Stanwyck
   all of these actresses

Gloria Grahame, Jane Greer, Barbara Stanwyck were all well-known film noir femme fatales.

1. "His Kind of Woman"
   "The Enemy Below"
2. "The Man With the Gun"
   "The Night of the Hunter"

While no one argues it has elements of film noir, Charles Laughton's 1955 film "The Night of the Hunter," starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish is not always considered to be "noir."

1. it's a critique
   it's a forgery
2. it's a parody
   it's a reproduction

"Murder by Contract," released in 1958, was a parody of noir.

1. "Angel Face"
   "Kansas City Confidential"
2. "The Narrow Margin"
   "Strange Fascination"

When "Angel Face," starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons, came out, it was The New York Times that called it a "turgid psychological claptrap."

1. butler
   dirty cop
2. private investigator
   millionaire playboy

Private investigators are well-known characters in film noir.

1. noir
   fatalist
2. crime
   bête

Film noir was typically scored in what became known as "crime jazz."

1. Aaron Copland
   Elmer Bernstein
2. Herb Alpert
   Leonard Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein's score for "Sweet Smell of Success" became known as "crime jazz."

1. Angela Phinlay
   Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
2. Doll Conovan
   Dix Handley

The Coen Brothers' character in "The Man Who Wasn't There" was named after Doc Erwin Riedenschneider from "The Asphalt Jungle."

1. he's a barber
   he's a philanthropist
2. he's a police officer
   he's a private investigator

Webb Garwood, played by Van Heflin, is a police officer.

1. "His Kind of Woman"
   "The House on Telegraph Hill"
2. "The Man With My Face"
   "Strangers on a Train"

"His Kind of Woman," released in 1951, is considered on the line between film noir and a film noir parody.

1. "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"
   "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
2. "Rogue Cop"
   "The Sound of Fury"

Whether true or not, director Cy Endfield's film "The Sound of Fury" made this claim.

1. "North by Northwest"
   "The Wrong Man"
2. "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
   "To Catch a Thief"

Henry Fonda plays Manny Balestrero in "The Wrong Man," the only Hitchcock film he appeared in.

1. "Miami Expose"
   "Time Table"
2. "The Houston Story"
   "The Killing"

Stanley Kubrick directed the 1956 film "The Killing."

1. Johnny Clay in "The Chase"
   Johnny Clay in "The Detective"
2. Johnny Clay in "The Killing"
   Johnny Clay in "The Trial"

Johnny Clay (played by Sterling Hayden) says this in "The Killing."

1. "The Big Heat"
   "The File on Thelma Jordan"
2. "Pickup on South Street"
   "Sunset Boulevard"

Samuel Fuller directed the film "Pickup on South Street."

1. James M. Cain
   Raymond Chandler
2. Dashiell Hammett
   all of these

Stories by James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett didn't just help shape a film movement, their stories also became some of the most popular films of the period.

1. Chet Baker
   John Coltrane
2. Miles Davis
   Theloniuous Monk

Miles Davis performs the score for the 1958 film "Elevator to the Gallows."