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Jacques Tourneur: Out of the Past
The Maltese Falcon
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Alan Ladd and Lake, Veronica starring in The Blue Dahlia
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Fritz Lang: Metropolis
Max Schreck in Nosferatu
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Double Indemnity (1944)
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