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Musical Noir

Work in progress.

Noirs where someone sings or plays a song.

Credit to IMDB for the list of songs. I've attempted to only list songs that feature diagetically (that is, someone on screen sings or plays the song), but I haven't seen many of these movies, and IMDB is not always clear on this factor.

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  • Blues in the Night
  • Christmas Holiday
  • To Have and Have Not
  • Phantom Lady
  • Detour
  • Lady on a Train
  • Black Angel
  • Calcutta
  • Gilda
  • The Man I Love
  • Somewhere in the Night
  • Body and Soul
  • I Walk Alone
  • Nora Prentiss
  • Riff-Raff
  • Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
  • Road House
  • Sleep, My Love
  • Scene of the Crime
  • The Woman on Pier 13
  • A Woman's Secret
  • Backfire
  • Night and the City
  • Shadow on the Wall
  • Young Man with a Horn
  • The Strip
  • Under the Gun
  • Don't Bother to Knock
  • The Las Vegas Story
  • Macao
  • Split Second
  • Playgirl
  • 5 Against the House
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • Accused of Murder
  • The Houston Story
  • Istanbul
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • King Creole
  • Thunder Road
  • Odds Against Tomorrow
  • Melody of a Murder
  • Tread Softly
  • Impulse
  • All Through the Night
  • The Last Crooked Mile
  • The Bank Raiders
  • Face the Music
  • Tokyo Joe
  • Rogue Cop
  • Hong Kong Confidential
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Tiger by the Tail
  • The Blue Dahlia
  • Bedevilled
  • Murder Is My Beat
  • 3 Steps to the Gallows
  • Time to Kill
  • The Unholy Wife
  • Blackout
  • Gangs Inc.
  • Noose
  • The Long Wait
  • Murder at 3am
  • The Blue Gardenia
  • The Inner Circle
  • Suspected Person
  • Meet Mr. Callaghan
  • The Flanagan Boy
  • Escape by Night
  • Nightbeat
  • Whiplash
  • The Glass Key
  • This Gun for Hire
  • Rififi
  • Shadow of a Man
  • The Tiger Woman
  • Subway in the Sky
  • Assignment Redhead
  • The Gelignite Gang
  • Million Dollar Pursuit
  • Walk the Dark Street
  • New Orleans After Dark
  • Affair in Trinidad