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Film noirs have a deep relationship with disability no matter for the representation of the beauty or foreshadowing the side stories.

Film noir’s relations with disability
From a journal “Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body” by Michael Davidson from the GLQ:A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. In many noir examples, Many disabled characters played whether a supporting roles, evil roles or the cameo role. The deaf boy (Dickie Moore) played multiple roles in the movie “Out of Past” from 1947, protecting the main character also pushing the story line. Movie “The Fallen Sparrow” from 1943, the “man who limps” was the evil character and got killded at the end. In “The Blur Dahlia” from 1946, a disabled soldier that returned from World War II Johnny Morrison(Alan Ladd) found out his wife has been unfaithful to him which made him killed her.

Disability played an important role in film noir. From the article "Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body. " from Journal of Modern Literature. Disability is the central point in film noir, it is very inspiring since in film noir the disabled body gives audience the same viewing pleasure as the female body.

In numerous noir film, being disabled marked as a sexual inscrutability. Film theory has focused on mantis-like features of the femme fatale characters, and most of their husband were in a disabled state. For example, In Double Indemnity (1944) Mrs. Dietrichson’s husband is on crutches; in The Lady from Shanghai (1948) Elsa Bannister’s husband wears braces and uses a cane; in Walk on the Wild Side (1962) Jo’s husband’s legs have been amputated, and he pulls himself around on a dolly.

What we should think about disability from film noir through out history
“Disabled people, like people of colour, are entirely used to being demonised in film” from Gal-den. The minority groups of people like people of colors, races other than white, female and disabled people often been used exaggerated as the evil characters. Most of the film noir, these minority played the unimportant role, the evil character or supporting role which will increase the negative image of disabled people in Audience's eyes.

In 1960s Greek film noirs, "The Secret of the Red Mantle" and "The Fear", the films allowed audience for an anti-ableist reading which had challenge stereotypes of disability in 1960s Greece.