No pedestrians or bystanders - innocent or even neutral. Not a single uncomplicitous, untainted character except the mute cabbie who briefly shuttles our hero between several points along his dizzying path. The absence of a general population is, by implication, a statement of contempt.
Nicholas Christopher
Somewhere in the Night -
Film Noir and the American City
1997
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Out of the Past
1947
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