Crime history

History of crime films

Crime films, such as Sherlock Holmes began to appear onscreen as early as 1900 or 1903. The arrival of synchronized sound in 1927 and the Great Depression in 1929 created an appetite for escapist entertainment and films to become more popular.
Lots of gangster films of the 1930s and long series of detective films were often based on novels. Film Noir was produced in America throughout the decade beginning in 1944 and the they were very popular during those times. Post-war crime films were shaped in America by cultural anxiety about the nuclear bomb (Kiss Me Deadly, 1955) and the nuclear family.
The decline of film noir after Touch of Evil (1958) was offset by a series of crime comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mobs (1951) and a series of Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thrillers.
James Bond films because popular in the 1960s, which headlined history’s most lucrative movie franchise in a long series beginning with Dr.No (1962). Films such as The Godfather (1972) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) reinvented the crime for a hip young audience. The closing years of the century, marked by a heightened public of crime allowed crime films such as Traffic (2000) a remake of Traffik (1989) to become much more popular than the original version.