Act of Violence (1949) is a taut film noir that explores the dark aftereffects of war on its characters. The story follows a World War II veteran who is terrorized by a former comrade, unraveling ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.