Brad Lang's Ten Favorite
Detective, Hardboiled and Noir Films
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Brad Lang is a sometime-contributor to this site, a P.I. writer (he wrote the Crockett private eye series) and the manager of the Mining Co. Classic Movies and Hardboiled Heaven web sites. Here's his favorites, in chronological order:

• The Thin Man (1934)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• To Have and Have Not (1945)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• The Hustler (1961)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Body Heat (1981)