Worst Wives: Noir’s Bad Marriages, Take Two
By Jake Hinkson
January 4, 2012First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then, at least in the lurid world of film noir, comes the inevitable murder attempt (check out Husbands from Hell for a few examples). Classic noir usually held the institution of marriage at arm’s length. Cops and detectives—almost all of whom were men—rarely went home to see the wife…