Whit tells Jeff that his girlfriend, Kathie, had stolen $40000 from him and fled and he wanted the money and Kathie back (Bould 2005, p. 112).Jeff follows her to Mexico City and to Acapulco where he finds her and falls in love with her. While many of these films feature adultery, their kisses are more like quick clashes than lingering, amorous gestures, and the adulterers rarely enjoy their affairs before being offed in the end. The Origins Of Film Noir The noir films occurred in America during the war, and continued to be made during the forties and fifties, but it did not come out of nothing. Eels’ secretary is found dead and it is found out that it was Whit and Kathie who had killed her and are planning to blame it on Jeff.Kathie had managed to convince Whit that indeed, Jeff was responsible for the death of Fisher. Mundson reappears and tells both Gilda and Farrell that he was going to shoot both of them, fortunately Uncle Pio; the washroom attendant stabs him in the back. False suspicion, double crosses and betrayal were also common in these films.The position of the protagonist was not fixed; he would shift from one role to another and would be the hunter at one moment and the hunted in the next instance. Ann later drives off with Jim who still loved her after Jeff’s burial.From the plots of the two films, several aspects of film noirs are evident in both.

Film noir emerged during World War II when German émigrés like Fritz Lang brought the experimental sensibility of German Expressionist cinema to Tinseltown. The tone of the noirs was generally described as downbeat and the protagonists were often of morally questionable character living in the underworld of sex and crimes (Snyder 2001, p. 162).The main mood addressed in noir films were those of alienation, pessimism, melancholy and evil.This is a 1946 film directed by Charles Vidor, it was shot in black-and-white color scheme; a distinct film noir characteristic. Origins of Film Noir Unlike other stylistic genres, film noir was not a genre that filmmakers of the classic Hollywood era set out to make. He assigns Farrell to keep watch on her.Meanwhile, Mundson has refused to transfer the ownership of a Tungsten cartel to the Germans who had registered it in his name and shoots dead one of the Germans during subsequent visits ((Silver et al 2004, p. 63). Bars, nightclubs and gambling in small dingy rooms were common. The term literally means black film in French and the movies were characterized by their black and white visual style, a style generally thought to have begun in the early 1940s was used up to the late 1950s.Most of the film noirs reflected on the tensions resulting from the World War II (Spicers 2002, p. 35). He is therefore very confident as he frequents the nightclub owned by Whit wit ha view to serving him with affidavit papers. A complex storyline is emphasized when it is found out that Tom’s real name is Joey Fogarty and is not from Indiana. There is the presence of the femme fatale in both films who leads to the demise of one of the male characters.Gilda and Farrell later end up in marriage despite not loving each other. They also depicted a cruel, corrupt, merciless and unforgiving world and are defined by moral decadence. Cotemporary noirs include The movie is set up in a small town in Indiana where a man, Tom Stall, lives with his wife and one child. They were often presented as beautiful women who used all avenues to achieve their objectives.
The storylines were complex and told with frequent flashbacks and background music. Some were marked by a dilemma at the end as depicted in Film noirs were also associated with urban settings; they were mostly set in small towns represented as a maze (Silver, Ursini & Duncan 2004, p. 62). The lead male character may have been trying to escape his past life and in the process would find himself falling into the femme fatale’s trap.These female characters were almost irresistible by the male lead character and would lure him to commit murders out of jealousy or lead to his arrest (Snyder 2001, p. 162).

Cologne, Germany: TaschenSpicer, A., 2002, Film noir. Though there is no consensus on the matter, this was a very important step towards the development of the film industry.Bould, M., 2005. The noirs were inspired both by literature and previous film history along with the sociohistory of the period it grew out of. There is also an element of betrayal when Mundson finds Gilda and Farrell kissing.Farrell marries Gilda after she had inherited the estate but their relationship is not out of love, Gilda tries to escape to no avail.