107: Noirvember Adjacent: Singapore and Ittefaq

In our annual Noirvember episode, we discuss two thrillers from the 1960s that maybe one could call noir, or neo-noir, or noir-ish... noir-esque?

Show Notes:

The liquor store sent us twice as much Prosecco as we ordered
Our Noirvember playlist

“Filmfare recommends: Best Bollywood noir films of the ’50s”
Film Noir
Singapore
Songs: “Aane Laga Jeene Ka Maza,” “Dekho Ji Dekho,” “Tum Lakh Chhupana Chahoge,” “Hat Jao Deewane Aaye,” and “Dhokha Khayegi Na Yaaron Ki Nazar”

(INTERVAL (“Yeh Sahar Bada Albela” from Singapore)

Ittefaq

Peeping Tom and Samuel Fuller

No interval, no songs, lots of twists

Signpost to Murder and Rope

Ittefaq 2017

NEXT TIME: children’s films!

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