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Noir Flicks Stretch Genre Limits

4 September 2008 10:30 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

What's a film noir - or a horror movie? Their definitions are stretched as a marketing hook by some new themed releases.

Elia Kazan's "Boomerang!" (1947) is among three films released this week under the Fox Noir umbrella. Strictly speaking, this is not a stylized noir but one of a series of celebrated documentary-style thrillers produced by Louis de Rochemont.

Noir mainstay Dana Andrews ("Laura"), cast as a district attorney investigating the murder of a Connecticut priest, heads a fine cast including Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and »

- By LOU LUMENICK

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