Statistics for 100 Essential Noir Films

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Answer Stats

Year	Director	Answer	% Correct
1941	John Huston	The Maltese Falcon	83%
1946	Howard Hawks	The Big Sleep	79%
1944	Billy Wilder	Double Indemnity	77%
1949	Carol Reed	The Third Man	74%
1950	Billy Wilder	Sunset Blvd.	73%
1956	Stanley Kubrick	The Killing	71%
1946	Orson Welles	The Stranger	71%
1958	Orson Welles	Touch of Evil	70%
1946	Robert Siodmak	The Killers	69%
1955	Charles Laughton	The Night of the Hunter	69%
1947	Jacques Tourner	Out of the Past	66%
1951	Alfred Hitchcock	Strangers on a Train	66%
1974	Roman Polanski	Chinatown	65%
1944	Otto Preminger	Laura	64%
1953	Fritz Lang	The Big Heat	64%
1943	Alfred Hitchcock	Shadow of a Doubt	61%
1950	John Huston	The Asphalt Jungle	60%
1949	Raoul Walsh	White Heat	58%
1950	Nicholas Ray	In a Lonely Place	57%
1946	Alfred Hitchcock	Notorious	57%
1948	Orson Welles	The Lady from Shanghai	57%
1946	Charles Vidor	Gilda	55%
1951	Billy Wilder	Ace in the Hole	53%
1948	John Huston	Key Largo	51%
1956	Alfred Hitchcock	The Wrong Man	51%
1945	Edgar G. Ulmer	Detour	49%
1945	Fritz Lang	Scarlet Street	49%
1946	Tay Garnett	The Postman Always Rings Twice	49%
1955	Robert Aldrich	Kiss Me Deadly	48%
1950	Joseph H. Lewis	Gun Crazy	47%
1945	Michael Curtiz	Mildred Pierce	47%
1944	Fritz Lang	The Woman in the Window	45%
1944	Edward Dmytryk	Murder, My Sweet	44%
1957	Alexander Mackendrick	Sweet Smell of Success	44%
1955	Joseph H. Lewis	The Big Combo	44%
1950	Jules Dassin	Night and the City	43%
1950	Otto Preminger	Where the Sidewalk Ends	43%
1947	Delmer Daves	Dark Passage	42%
1953	Samuel Fuller	Pickup on South Street	40%
1953	Otto Preminger	Angel Face	39%
1949	Robert Siodmak	Criss Cross	39%
1947	Robert Montgomery	Lady in the Lake	39%
1950	Rudolph Maté	D.O.A.	38%
1941	Raoul Walsh	High Sierra	38%
1953	Ida Lupino	The Hitch-Hiker	38%
1949	Robert Wise	The Set-Up	38%
1947	Robert Rossen	Body and Soul	36%
1945	John M. Stahl	Leave Her to Heaven	36%
1948	John Farrow	The Big Clock	35%
1959	Robert Wise	Odds Against Tomorrow	34%
1948	Nicholas Ray	They Live by Night	34%
1947	Anthony Mann	T-Men	34%
1947	John Cromwell	Dead Reckoning	32%
1947	Edmund Goulding	Nightmare Alley	32%
1948	Jules Dassin	The Naked City	32%
1942	Frank Tuttle	This Gun for Hire	32%
1952	Fritz Lang	Clash by Night	31%
1947	Henry Hathaway	Kiss of Death	31%
1946	George Marshall	The Blue Dahlia	31%
1946	Lewis Milestone	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	31%
1948	Abraham Polonsky	Force of Evil	30%
1944	Robert Siodmak	Phantom Lady	30%
1947	Robert Montgomery	Ride the Pink Horse	30%
1949	Fred Zinnemann	Act of Violence	29%
1947	Jules Dassin	Brute Force	29%
1947	Edward Dmytryk	Crossfire	29%
1951	Nicholas Ray	On Dangerous Ground	29%
1949	Max Ophüls	The Reckless Moment	29%
1947	Robert Wise	Born to Kill	27%
1945	Otto Preminger	Fallen Angel	27%
1952	Phil Karlson	Kansas City Confidential	27%
1950	Elia Kazan	Panic in the Streets	27%
1948	André de Toth	Pitfall	27%
1948	Jean Negulesco	Road House	27%
1950	Anthony Mann	Side Street	27%
1952	David Miller	Sudden Fear	27%
1951	Joseph Losey	The Prowler	27%
1940	Boris Ingster	The Stranger on the Third Floor	27%
1948	Anthony Mann	Raw Deal	26%
1949	Jules Dassin	Thieves' Highway	26%
1948	Robert Siodmak	Cry of the City	25%
1941	H. Bruce Humberstone	I Wake Up Screaming	25%
1942	Stuart Heisler	The Glass Key	25%
1948	Alfred L. Werker	He Walked by Night	23%
1948	Anatole Litvak	Sorry, Wrong Number	23%
1946	Henry Hathaway	The Dark Corner	23%
1949	Anthony Mann	Border Incident	22%
1948	Henry Hathaway	Call Northside 777	22%
1954	Fritz Lang	Human Desire	22%
1956	Fritz Lang	While the City Sleeps	22%
1947	Anthony Mann	Desperate	21%
1946	Roy William Neill	The Black Angel	21%
1953	Fritz Lang	The Blue Gardenia	21%
1946	Robert Siodmak	The Dark Mirror	21%
1950	John Farrow	Where Danger Lives	21%
1953	Henry Hathaway	Niagra	19%
1950	Robert Siodmak	The File on Thelma Jordon	19%
1948	Steve Sekely	Hollow Triumph	18%
1952	Richard Fleischer	The Narrow Margin	18%
1948	William Keighley	The Street with No Name	14%