Talk:Crime film

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This article originated in material from a long article on crime fiction, and as such it shows a bias in talking about crime films and literature, rather than the crime film itself. It obviously needs some more material to provide a balanced article on the crime film. : ChrisG 15:42, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The mere fact that it originated from a seperate article doesn't make it NPOV, but it certainly seems to contain a lot of rants about remakes and adaptations from books.

Needs Major Rewrite::

Wow. This article needs a serious, serious rewrite. I gave a few little swipes here and there, and will return later, but if someone from the film project wants to take a shot, have at it.

As noted above, this is taken from a larger article on crime fiction, and it shows. The article doesn't even mention film noir (except my l'il mention at the top. I took out some, but honestly I think the best take would be to start it over as a stub and rebuild. Jordoh 04:04, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

As the original author of this, I can only agree. I told ChrisG and others who were intent on separating this short text from the (then much longer) Crime fiction article more than two years ago that this would never do as an article in its own right, but they tended not to believe me. At the same time this text was removed from the main article so that Crime fiction now altogether lacks a discussion of how crime fiction is turned into film.

They also expressed the hope that someone would have a go at it in no time. Well, it is taking a bit longer, and with the growth of Wikipedia Crime film (or any other suitable title) should really be a comprehensive article on all aspects of the genre rather than just two or three random examples (which I think is fine if you just want to illustrate a point). I just realized that now we even have an article on Edgar Wallace movies, so a lot of work is waiting here. Good luck to all potential contributors! <KF> 10:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Since no one apparently thought this was PoV, I removed the tag and replaced it with a clean-up tag. Ace of Sevens 11:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Merged in Gangster film. Cwolfsheep 14:00, 9 July 2006 (UTC)