John Dahl
3 titles · american genre
Dahl revived film noir in the 1990s with small, mean thrillers. In The Last Seduction, a femme fatale steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town, where she finds a man to use. Rounders follows a law student drawn back into the high-stakes poker clubs of New York. The Great Raid is a straight war film about a rescue mission in the Philippines in 1945.
Signature
- Neo-noir with a cold-blooded heroine (The Last Seduction).
- Gambling and the lure of the con (Rounders).
- Small-town settings for big crimes.
- Later work in prestige television.
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