Day 3 of The Daily Dish: Direct This!

Welcome to Day 3 of Noirvember 2026 where my Daily Dish topic is Favorite Noir Director. This one definitely made me put on my thinking cap (or my ruminating fedora, if you will) – there are so many great ones. Before I share my pick, I’d just like to give a tip of the hat to Anthony Mann, Robert Siodmak, and Fritz Lang; together, they were responsible for such personal favorites as The Great Flamarion (1945), Scarlet Street (1945), Desperate (1947), Cry of the City (1948), Criss Cross (1949), and The Big Heat (1953). Wilder on the set of my all-time favorite film noir. But I have to give my top award to Billy Wilder, the director responsible for Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Blvd. (1950), and Ace in the Hole (1951) – three noirs that I have seen countless times and which are indisputably among my best-loved films of all times. Wilder may not have as many noirs under his belt as Fritz Lang, for instance, but the fact that he helmed these three features gives him an automatic free…

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