The Killers (1964)

The Killers (1964) is a television-style flashback color Hemingway remake sports motor racing and murder femme fatal and gangster heist fallout and violence against a blind woman Don Siegel almost un- or non-credible cool brutal crime action film noir that is barely a film noir insofar as the noir is far from the habitual armoire of typical style motifs, but is called a film noir nonetheless, with oddly no night time scenes at all, not that excludes it from the film noir category, it is in the style that this nonnoirness nor nihilist nemesis, nor nausea-inducing net of failed morality, but it's crass instead, normal narrative, neatly non-noir, and with the star Lee Marvin and the stars Angie Dickinson, John Cassavettes, and President Ronlad Reagan.

Kings Row (1942)

Kings Row (1942) is an epic local large-scale detailed slice of life dramatic-style tableau course-of-history melodrama, which is not film noir, and yet retains a space in the noir hall of fame, not on the wall of shame so much as on the formative features feature.

Still — in reading the all-time seminal seminar on noir, Raymonde Borde and Etienne Chaumeton's A Panorma of Amercian Film Noir (1941 - 1953), we do find that Kings Row is one of several non noir productions that rise up early in the authors' studies, as an example of the ultra-conventional being infected with the same dark currents that were hitting civil as well as cultural and criminal society — noir.

Storm Warning (1950)

Storm Warning (1950) is an investigative journalist Ku Klux Klan murder thriller film noir starring Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, and Steve Cochran. 

Directed by Stuart Heisler, it follows a fashion model (Ginger Rogers) traveling to a small Southern town to visit her sister (Doris Day), who witnesses the brutal murder of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). 

The cop hard on the case is Ronald Reagan and the unwilling and unstable weak link in the criminal chain is the erratic Steve Cochran — often appearing in a Stanley Kowalski-style white tee-shirt.

The original screenplay was written by Richard Brooks and Daniel Fuchs and is a curiosity in some respects, as it seems to demand interpretation.