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Now this is interesting...
Someone did "1940's Detective Noir film" through MJ:

That pistol for once isn't a nightmare amalgamation of handguns; the profile & shape reminded me of something, and is very reminiscent of one pistol in particular, the Dreyse M.1907 (except for the apparent lack of triggerguard).

Now what does that have to do with hard-boiled detective noir films? From the wiki's Popular Culture section:

Someone did "1940's Detective Noir film" through MJ:

That pistol for once isn't a nightmare amalgamation of handguns; the profile & shape reminded me of something, and is very reminiscent of one pistol in particular, the Dreyse M.1907 (except for the apparent lack of triggerguard).

Now what does that have to do with hard-boiled detective noir films? From the wiki's Popular Culture section:
The "Dreyse 1906" is depicted in Fritz Lang's 1933 film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse by former detective Hofmeister, and is the favorite weapon of the assassin Hardy, to kill Dr. Kramm. After Hardy's death, Inspector Lohmann muses that Hardy must have used the "1906 Dreyse" pistol because he was used to it, even though "these guns have been out of style for a long time." The film was banned in Germany by Joseph Goebbels, and was not shown in Germany until 1951.
