FILM NOIR – The Classic Era: 1941 to 1959

A Simple, Straightforward and Concise Introduction to the Classic Era of Film Noir

This book looks at the contributions made by the actors and actresses who appeared in film noir, and the directors who made them: Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, John Carradine, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Edmond O’Brien, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, James Cagney, Ida Lupino, John Huston, Delmer Daves, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fritz Lang, Anthony Mann, Phil Karlson, Lewis Allen, Robert Wise, Henry Hathaway, John Brahms, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Jacques Tourneur, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph H. Lewis, and to so many more fine directors.

Narrator Should Be American

Lots of useful and interesting info about Noir cinema. Gave me lots of titles of movies I can now look for so I can watch them.
However, it makes no sense that the computer-generated voice is British. I found this jarring for the first few minutes. 95% of the movies discussed are American, so the narrator should sound American.