Notes on the popular film noir OTS - The Killers (1946)

The film 'The Killers' ticks most of the boxes when it comes to stereotypical conventions found in a film noir. So here are some of the typical and very often occurring points that i have seen:

• Diagetic Music
• Black and white
• Nothing spoken in the first half of the opening title sequence - silence
• The costumes that were typical of that era - hats, moustaches, pin-stripe suit
• Hats aren't taken off by baddies when inside the diner
• The baddies are rude, and they act threatening and inferior to everybody else
• Stereotype - A black man is the cook
• All of the credits are at the front of the film, and at the end, it will only have said "THE END"
• The audience would watch it because of the cast or the genre, not because they saw the advertisement
• Iconic images  found very often in film noir - Guns, cigarettes, however icons change through time

With tips from KettMedia, i managed to find the first 10 minutes of the film on youtube. I dont know if i can legally aloud to do this, but i have anyway! The long shadows, the high contrast and the AMAZING dramatic music at the start - its all classic film noir. I like it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwbpnl07rTs