Produced: 35
Letter, The 1940
High Sierra 1941
Maltese Falcon, The 1941
Mask Of Dimitrios, The 1944
Conflict 1945
Danger Signal 1945
Mildred Pierce 1945
Big Sleep, The 1947
Dark Passage 1947
Nora Prentiss 1947
Possessed 1947
Unfaithful, The 1947
Unsuspected, The 1947
Key Largo 1948
Smart Girls Don’t Talk 1948
Flaxy Martin 1949
Homicide 1949
White Heat 1949
Backfire 1950
Breaking Point, The 1950
Damned Don’t Cry, The 1950
Great Jewel Robber 1950
Highway 301 1950
This Side Of The Law 1950
Storm Warning 1951
I Confess 1951
Enforcer, The 1951
Lightning Strikes Twice 1951
Strangers On A Train 1951
Tomorrow Is Another Day 1951
System, The 1953
Crime Wave 1954
Illegal 1955
Steel Jungle 1956
Wrong Man, The 1956
Released: 4
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950
William Cagney Productions
Blue Gardenia, The 1953
Blue Gardenia Productions
New York Confidential 1955
Edward Small Productions
Cry In The Night 1956
Ladd Enterprises
Produced: 33
Missing Juror, The 1944
I Love A Mystery 1945
Night Editor 1946
Dead Reckoning 1947
Framed 1947
Gilda 1947
Lady From Shanghai, The 1947
Dark Past, The 1948
I Love Trouble 1948
Chinatown At Midnight 1949
Johnny Allegro 1949
Reckless Moment, The 1949
Shockproof 1949
Undercover Man, The 1949
Between Midnight And Dawn 1950
Mob, The 1951
Never Trust A Gambler 1951
Two Of A Kind 1951
Affair In Trinidad 1952
Scandal Sheet 1952
Big Heat, The 1953
Man In The Dark 1953
Drive A Crooked Road 1954
Human Desire 1954
Pushover 1954
Chicago Syndicate 1955
5 Against The House 1955
New Orleans Uncensored 1955
Night Holds Terror, The 1955
Tight Spot 1955
Over-
Lineup, The 1958
True Story Of Lynn Stuart, The 1958
Released: 17
Brothers Rico, The 1957
William Goetz
Pickup Alley 1957
Warwick Film Productions
Whole Truth, The 1958
Valiant Films
Sniper, The 1952
Stanley Kramer Productions
In A Lonely Place 1951
Santana Productions
Crooked Web, The 1955
Clover Productions
Burglar, The 1957
Samson Productions
Murder By Contract 1958
Orbit Productions
Case Against Brooklyn, The 1958
Morningside Productions
Johnny O’Clock 1947
J.E.M. Productions
She Played With Fire 1957
Individual Pictiures
711 Ocean Drive 1950
Frank Seltzer Productions
Walk A Crooked Mile 1948
Edward Small Productions
Nightfall 1957
Copa Productions
Houston Story, The 1956
Clover Productions
Kill Her Gently 1957
Fortress Film Productions
M 1951
Superior Productions
Produced: 46
Stranger On The Third Floor 1940
Fallen Sparrow, The 1943
7th Victim, The 1943
Murder My Sweet 1944
Johnny Angel 1945
Crackup 1946
Deadline At Dawn 1946
Locket, The 1946
Nocturne 1946
Crossfire 1947
Born To Kill 1947
Desperate 1947
Devil Thumbs A Ride, The 1947
Out Of The Past 1947
Riffraff 1947
They Won’t Believe Me 1947
Race Street 1948
Bodyguard 1949
Clay Pigeon 1949
Cornered 1945
Dangerous Profession, A 1949
Follow Me Quietly 1949
Set-
Strange Bargain 1949
They Live By Night 1949
Threat, The 1949
Window, The 1949
Woman’s Secret, A 1949
Armored Car Robbery 1950
Gambling House 1950
Hunt The Man Down 1950
Tattooed Stranger, The 1950
Where Danger Lives 1950
His Kind Of Woman 1951
Las Vegas Story 1951
Narrow Margin, The 1951
Racket, The 1951
Roadblock 1951
Woman On Pier 13, The 1951
Macao 1952
On Dangerous Ground 1952
Angel Face 1953
Hitch-
Count The Hours 1953
Split Second 1953
While The City Sleeps 1956
Released: 10
Woman In The Window 1944
International Pictures
Stranger, The 1946
International Pictures -
Double Deal 1950
Bel-
Destination Murder 1950
Edward L. Cahn Productions
Sudden Fear 1950
Joseph Kaufmann Productions
Secret Fury, The 1950
Loring Theater Corp
Edge Of Doom 1950
Samuel Goldwyn Co.
Cry Danger 1951
Olympic Production
Beyond Reasonable Doubt 1956
Bert E. Friedlob Productions
Man In The Vault 1956
Batjac Productions
Produced 15
End of the Road 1944
Silent Partner 1944
Last Crooked Mile, The 1946
Flame, The 1947
Moonrise 1948
Unmasked 1950
Insurance Investigator 1951
Hoodlum Empire 1952
City That Never Sleeps, The 1953
Hell’s Half Acre 1954
Double Jeopardy 1955
No Man’s Woman 1955
Man Is Armed, The 1956
Terror At Midnight 1956
Man Who Died Twice, The 1958
Released 3
Jealousy 1945
Gong Productions
Strange Impersonation 1946
F. Lee Wilder Productions
Pretender, The 1947
W.W. Productions
Produced: 10
Below The Deadline 1946
Suspense 1946
Guilty, The 1947
Violence 1947
Incident 1948
I Wouldn’t Be In Your Shoes 1948
Cry Vengeance 1954
Murder Is My Beat 1955
Phenix City Story, The 1955
Come On, The 1956
Released: 8
When Strangers Marry 1944
King Bros. Productions
Gangster, The 1947
King Bros. Productions
High Tide 1947
Wrather Productions
Mexican Manhunt 1953
Lindsley Parsons Picture Corp.
Murder Without Tears 1953
William F. Broidy Pictures
Highway Dragnet 1954
William F. Broidy Pictures
Confessioin 1955
Anglo-
Finger Man 1955
Lindsley Parsons Productions
Released: 58
Chase, The 1946
Nero Films
Red House, The 1947
Sol Lessor Productions
Pitfall 1948
Regal Films
Sleep My Love 1948
Triangle Productions
Cover Up 1949
Strand Productions
Crooked Way, The 1949
Benedict Bogeaus Productions
Impact 1949
Cardinal Pictures
Manhandled 1949
Pine-
Red Light 1949
Roy Del Ruth Productions
Too Late For Tears 1949
Hunt Stromberg Productions
D.O.A. 1950
Cardinal Pictures
Gun Crazy 1950
King Brothers Productions
Southside 1-
King Brothers Productions
Kiss Me Deadly 1950
Parklane Pictures
Sound Of Fury, The 1950
Robert Stillman Productions
Quicksand 1950
Samuel H. Stiefel Productions
Once A Thief 1950
W. Lee Wilder Productions
Underworld Story 1950
FilmCraft
Scarf, The 1951
Gloria Productions
Prowler, The 1951
Horizon Pictures
He Ran All The Way 1951
Roberts Pictures Inc.
Captive City, The 1952
Aspen Productions
Kansas City Confidential 1952
Associated Players & Producers
Without Warning 1952
Allart Productions
99 River Street 1953
Edward Small Productions
Fake, The 1953
PAX Productions
I, The Jury 1953
Parklane Productions
Wicked Woman 1953
Edward Small Productions
Vice Squad 1953
Gramercy Pictures
No Escape 1953
Matthugh Productions
Black Tuesday 1954
Robert Goldstein Productions
Down Three Dark Streets 1954
Edward Small Productions
Good Die Young, The 1954
Romulus Films
Long Wait, The 1954
Parklane Poductions
Shield For Murder 1954
Aubrey Schenk Prod.
Suddenly 1954
Libra Productions
Witness To Murder 1954
Chester Erskine Productions
Bullet For Joey, A 1955
Bischoff-
Naked Street, The 1955
Edward Small Prod.
Killer’s Kiss 1955
Minotaur Productions
Night Of The Hunter 1955
Paul Gregory Productions
Big Bluff,The 1955
Planet Filmplays
Storm Fear 1955
Theodora Productions
Crime Against Joe 1956
Bel-
Killer Is Loose, The 1956
Crown Productions
Killing, The 1956
Harris-
Nightmare 1956
Pine-
Flight To Hong Kong 1956
Rorvic Productions
Time Table 1956
Mark Stevens Productions
Hell Bound 1957
Bel-
5 Steps To Danger 1957
Henry S. Kesler Productions
Hit and Run 1957
Hugo Haas Productions
My Gun Is Quick 1957
Parklane Pictures
Chicago Confidential 1957
Robert E. Kent Productions
Crime Of Passion 1957
Robert Goldstein Prod.
Odds Against Tomorrow 1959
HarBel Productions
Cage Of Evil 1960
Zenith Pictures
Johnny Cool 1963
Chrislaw Productions
Produced: 3
Railroaded 1947
Amazing Mr. X, The 1948
He Walked By Night 1948
Released: 11
T-
Edward Small Productions
Whispering City 1947
Quebec Productions
Assigned To Danger 1948
Ben Stoloff Productions
Behind Locked Doors 1948
Aro Productions
Scar, The (Hollow Triumph) 1948
Bryan Foy Productions
Raw Deal 1948
Edward Small Productions
Parole Inc. 1948
Equity Pictures Corp.
Shed No Tears 1948
Equity Pictures Corp.
Port Of New York 1949
Aubrey Schenck Productions
Trapped 1949
Contemporary Productions
Hoodlum, The 1951
Jack Schwarz Productions
Shoot To Kill 1947
Screen Guild Productions
Blond Ice 1948
Martin Mooney Productions
Released by Film Classics
Money Madness 1948
Sigmund Neufeld Productions
Released by Film Classics
Argyle Secrets, The 1948
Eronel Productions, Inc.
Released by Film Classics
Guilty Bystander 1950
Edmund L. Dorfmann Productions
Released by Film Classics
Cry Murder 1950
Edward Leven Productions
Released by Film Classics
Models Inc. 1952
Mutual Productions
Breakdown 1952
Pegasus Productions
Released by Realart Pictures
Twist Of Fate 1954
British Lion Film Corp.
Life At Stake, A 1954
Hank McCune Productions
Released by Gibraltar Film Distributors Blackout 1954
Tempean Films
Released by Eros Films
Private Hell 36 1954
The Filmakers
Female Jungle 1955
Bert Kaiser Productions
Released by American Releasing Co. Crashout 1955
Standard Productions
Released by The Filmakers
Please Murder Me 1956
Gross-
Released by Distributors Corp of America
Crown International Pictures
This is a listing of the film noirs, by date, produced by each movie studio and independent production companies. The listing also includes films that were made by others but released by each studio and other distributors. In those listings the actual producer of the film is listed.
As can be seen, RKO was the most prolific studio for making film noirs followed by Warner Bros. However, one of the most interesting aspects of the genre is the number of films made by independent production companies. They account for almost 40 percent of the total which indicates how film noir enabled the proliferation of the independents. United Artists, which was primarily a film distribution company during the noir era, was the conduit for independent productions and an essential element for the success of the burgeoning independents.
RKO
United Artists -
Produced: 19
I Wake Up Screaming 1941
Laura 1944
Fallen Angel 1945
Behind Green Lights 1946
Dark Corner, The 1946
Shock 1946
Somewhere In The Night 1946
Kiss Of Death 1947
Boomerang 1947
Road House 1948
Street With No Name 1948
Cry Of The City 1949
Thieve’s Highway 1949
Whirlpool 1949
Night And The City 1950
Where The Sidewalk Ends 1950
Deadline U.S.A. 1952
Blueprint For Murder 1953
Pickup On South Street 1953
Released: 10
Backlash 1947
Sol M. Wurtzel Productions
Crimson Key, The 1947
Sol M. Wurtzel Productions
Invisible Wall, The 1947
Sol M. Wurtzel Productions
I Cheated the Law 1949
Belsam Productions
Crooked Way, The 1949
Benedict Bogeaus Productions
Man Who Cheated Himself, The 1950
Phoenix Film Corporation
Steel Trap, The 1952
Thor Productions
Storm Fear 1955
Theodora Productions
Plunder Road 1957
Regal Films
3rd Voice, The 1960
Associated Producers Inc.
20th Century Fox
Warner Bros.
Produced: 17
Glass Key, The 1942
Street Of Chance 1942
This Gun For Hire 1942
Double Indemnity 1944
Ministry Of Fear* 1944
Blue Dahlia, The 1946
Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The 1946
Big Clock, The 1948
Night Has A Thousand Eyes 1948
Accused, The 1949
Chicago Deadline 1949
Dark City 1950
Appointment With Danger 1951
Detective Story 1951
Union Station 1951
Turning Point, The 1952
Desperate Hours, The 1955
Released: 7
They Made Me A Killer 1946
Pine-
Fear In The Night 1947
Pine-
I Walk Alone 1948
Hal Wallis Productions
Sorry, Wrong Number 1948
Hal Wallis Productions
Waterfront At Midnight 1948
Pine-
Manhandled 1949
Pine-
File On Thelma Jordan, The 1950
Hal Wallis Productions
Paramount
Republic
Columbia
Monogram -
Eagle-
Independently produced and distributed: 16
Produced: 30
Johnny Eager 1942
Postman Always Rings Twice, The 1946
High Wall 1947
Lady In The Lake 1947
Arnelo Affair, The 1947
Act Of Violence 1948
Scene Of The Crime 1949
Tension 1949
Border Incident 1949
Bribe, The 1949
Asphalt Jungle, The 1950
Dial 1119 1950
Lady Without Passport 1950
Mystery Street 1950
Shadow On The Wall 1950
Side Street 1950
Cause For Alarm 1951
No Questions Asked 1951
Strip, The 1951
Unknown Man, The 1951
Sellout, The 1952
Cry Of The Hunted 1953
Jeopardy 1953
Rogue Cop 1954
Julie 1956
Hot Summer Night 1957
House Of Numbers 1957
Cry Terror 1958
Big Operator, The 1959
Money Trap, The 1966
Released: 4
Force Of Evil 1948
Enterprise Productions
Big Combo, The 1954
Security Pictures
Key Witness 1960
Avon Productions
Once A Thief 1965
CIPRA
MGM
Produced: 2
Detour 1945
Railroaded 1947
Released: 2
Lady Confesses, The 1945
Alexander-
Apology For Murder 1945
Sigmund Neufeld Productions
Producers Releasing Corp.
Produced: 31
Phantom Lady 1944
Black Angel 1946
Brute Force 1947
Ride The Pink Horse 1947
The Web 1947
Larceny 1948
Abandoned 1949
Criss Cross 1949
Illegal Entry 1949
Johnny Stool Pigeon 1949
Undertow 1949
I Was A Shoplifter 1950
One Way Street 1950
Outside The Wall 1950
Shakedown 1950
Sleeping City, The 1950
Tattered Dress, The 1950
Undercover Girl 1950
Woman In Hiding 1950
Hollywood Story 1951
Under The Gun 1951
Forbidden 1953
Glass Web, The 1953
Naked Alibi, The 1954
Playgirl 1954
Female On The Beach 1955
Behind The High Wall 1956
Price Of Fear, The 1956
Appointment With A Shadow 1957
Midnight Story, The 1957
Touch Of Evil 1958
Released: 10
Shadow of A Doubt 1943
Skirball Productions
Scarlet Street 1945
Diana Productions
Killers, The 1946
Mark Hellinger Productions
Dark Mirror, The 1946
International Pictures
Naked City, The 1948
Mark Hellinger Productions
Woman On The Run 1950
Fidelity Pictures
Borderline 1950
Borderline Productions
Girls On The Loose 1958
Jewell Enterprises
Blast Of Silence 1961
Magla Productions
Cape Fear 1962
Melville-
Universal
Produced: 1
Treasure Of Monte Cristo 1949
Released: 6
F.B.I Girl 1951
Jedgar Productions
Loan Shark 1952
Encore Productions
Heat Wave 1953
Hammer Films
Terror Street 1953
Hammer Films
Limping Man, The 1953
Banner Films
Deadly Game 1954
Hammer Films
Lippert Films