Rachel Samuels '92 (Writer, Director, & Producer, DARK STREETS)

By Sean O'Rourke MAT '68

Film noir – dark, moody, filled with moral ambiguity. Hollywood cranked them out in the Forties and Fifties. In “Dark Streets,” Rachel Samuels ’92 revives the genre. Shot in colors from a very dark palette, the film follows Chaz Davenport, who has to solve the mystery of his father’s death, stay ahead of the loan sharks and find someone he can trust . . . if he can trust anyone.

Chaz owns a hot, new blues club in an anonymous American city prone to power failures. The club provides the setting for elaborate musical numbers in the manner of Busby Berkeley. The blackouts provide the noir.