Jungle noir!

THE DISEMBODIED is referred to as a horror movie everywhere I've seen it mentioned, which is not many places. True, this 1957 Allied Artists B involves voodoo, a kind of zombie and some pretty graphic violence, but this story of a trapped, frustrated girl from the noir side of the tracks could just as easily have taken place in a concrete jungle as the one in which it's set.

The Maltese Falcons you haven't seen, Part 1

When film noir comes up, most people familiar with the term at all will go straight to John Huston's adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 private detective novel, The Maltese Falcon to establish that familiarity. While Huston's take, released in 1941, is, by far, the best known and, as you'll see, the best made, it was Warner Bros. third bite at Hammett's sour apple.