From the Archives: Film Noir (originally aired 11/24/04)

Fishko Files | May 18, 2010
It’s been more than half a century since a wave of crime dramas burst onto American movie screens, providing film-goers and film-makers with a whole new vocabulary of dark shadows and saucy dialogue. In this archival episode of the Fishko Files, Sara Fishko explores the advent of the form we now know as 'Film Noir.'

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