Tightrope

film by Tuggle

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film noir

  • Out of the Past
    In film noir: The legacy of film noir

    Richard Tuggle’s Tightrope (1984) features film noir’s theme of disillusionment in a police officer who discovers he is as much an outsider as the criminal he is pursuing. Perhaps the best contemporary examples of the genre are Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential (1997), a bleak story of corrupt…

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