How well do you know the film noir genre of the '50s and '60s?

A then-unknown Marilyn Monroe appeared in John Huston's film "The Asphalt Jungle."

"Gun Crazy," a story about doomed couple Bart Tare and Annie Laurie Starr's crime spree, gained cult following in the 1970s.

Director Robert Aldrich used this visual in his 1955 film "Kiss Me Deadly."

The "Preacher" Harry Powell character has LOVE on his right hand and HATE on his left, in "The Night of the Hunter."

In the opening sequence of "D.O.A.," Frank Bigelow goes to the police station to report his own murder.

"Film noir" means "black cinema" (noir means black in French). It was coined by Nino Frank in 1946 to describe the dark, cynical and pessimistic movies happening at that time.

Voice-over narration, foreboding music and a plot twist or two are all hallmarks of film noir. Throw in a brooding private eye, low lights and a femme fatale with amnesia, and you've got yourself a movie.

"Classic" film noir films were made during the decade after World War II.

The golden age of film noir begins with "The Maltese Falcon's" release in 1941 and ends in 1958 with the release of "Touch of Evil."

Beginning in the early 1960s, certain elements and characteristics of noir films began to change, forming a neo-noir movement. Neo-noir, which lasted from 1962 to 1994, typically had greater emphasis on any psychological motivations of the characters.

Nicholas Ray, who directed Bogart in "In a Lonely Place" in 1950, went on to direct James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" in 1955.

Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster all made their first big screen debut in film noir.

Orson Welles' film "The Trial," released in 1962, is an adaptation of the novel written by Franz Kafka.

The 1953 film "The Hitch-Hiker" begins like this.

Ida Lupino directed "The Hitch-Hiker."

Lemmy Caution is the private detective in the sci-fi noir film "Alphaville," based on the pulp fiction of Peter Cheyney.

You may know Dr. Richard Kimball from the film starring Harrison Ford. But before that mid-90s movie, and other remakes, "The Fugitive" was a 1960s TV series that brought noir elements to the small screen.

Clint Eastwood was not a film noir leading man.

Gloria Grahame, Jane Greer, Barbara Stanwyck were all well-known film noir femme fatales.

While no one argues it has elements of film noir, Charles Laughton's 1955 film "The Night of the Hunter," starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish is not always considered to be "noir."

"Murder by Contract," released in 1958, was a parody of noir.

When "Angel Face," starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons, came out, it was The New York Times that called it a "turgid psychological claptrap."

Private investigators are well-known characters in film noir.

Film noir was typically scored in what became known as "crime jazz."

Elmer Bernstein's score for "Sweet Smell of Success" became known as "crime jazz."

The Coen Brothers' character in "The Man Who Wasn't There" was named after Doc Erwin Riedenschneider from "The Asphalt Jungle."

Webb Garwood, played by Van Heflin, is a police officer.

"His Kind of Woman," released in 1951, is considered on the line between film noir and a film noir parody.

Whether true or not, director Cy Endfield's film "The Sound of Fury" made this claim.

Henry Fonda plays Manny Balestrero in "The Wrong Man," the only Hitchcock film he appeared in.

Stanley Kubrick directed the 1956 film "The Killing."

Johnny Clay (played by Sterling Hayden) says this in "The Killing."

Samuel Fuller directed the film "Pickup on South Street."

Stories by James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett didn't just help shape a film movement, their stories also became some of the most popular films of the period.

Miles Davis performs the score for the 1958 film "Elevator to the Gallows."