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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

It is November.

So we are celebrating noir Vimber, like a lot of film fans out there.

So this is our noir Vimber episode from last year.

It is the 1941

Peter Lorry film,

The Face Behind the Mask.

Let's jump right in.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind,

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Hey! Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.

This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick.

In today's episode of Weird House Cinema, we're getting in on the Noir Vember festivities.

If you're not familiar with this, this is a yearly month-long

celebration of noir cinema, a concept introduced in 2010 by film critic Maria E. Gates. Film noir

is, of course, a turn that covers a lot of ground and bleeds into a number of different

sub-genres and adjacent genres.

I mean, it ultimately becomes just sort of a shade, you know, in a stylistic flourish that may be

employed, even just in, you know, key scenes in a particular picture.

But in its arguably truest form, we're talking about black and white, old Hollywood crime dramas full of cynicism, amoral characters, and style.

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