Film noir is a genre predecessor to modern crime stories, a basis for every kind of thriller we know and love today. No one ...

Image Credit: Paramount Pictures. The Femme Fatale is an integral part of film noir, a beautiful woman who lures the hero into temptation. And no Femme Fatale has ever outdone Barbara Stanwyck in ...

Unlike the femme fatales of noir lore ... aren't punished by the film. As noted by All Movie Guide, author "[Vera] Caspary's heroines were often career women, or women attempting to juggle ...