The backstories of the segments are interesting by themselves. "You could bring it into a college and use it as a class for noir." as a whole piece," said Dingeldein, who works out of his dphilms office in Rock Island and typically serves as director of photography for projects that Collins directs. The movie emphasizes that while film-noir classics are often credited to their directors, they often come from great novels. So he wrote and Dingeldein filmed "wrap around" material to "put each film in the context of being noir," Collins said. "I got to thinking there was something thematic about noir that could be said," said Collins, who lives in Muscatine. The origins of each piece are different, but Collins and Dingeldein felt they worked well together. The movie is a collection of four works, a documentary about Mickey Spillane and three shorter fiction pieces: the one-man show Ness: An Untouchable Life, A Matter of Principal, and Three Women. "It's a bit of a Frankenstein monster," Collins conceded last week, "but the Frankenstein monster gets its job done. Shades of Noir, the new film by Max Allan Collins and Phil Dingeldein, is a patchwork.
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