Kinda odd that the same director who did the cutsey Sound of Music also did Snatcher........and Cursed............but hey, it is America.................

Between Curse and Snatcher, Wise directed Mademoiselle Fifi (1944), an adaptation of two Guy de Maupassant short stories that explored man's darker side with a political subtext.^[32] Fifi's feminist perspective and a memorable chase sequence helped make it a "template picture for Wise".^[33] Wise also directed film noir, among them the Lawrence Tierney noir classic Born to Kill (1947), and Blood on the Moon (1948), a noir Western starring Robert Mitchum as a cowboy drifter that included memorable night sequences.^[34]

Wise's last film for RKO, The Set-Up (1949), was a realistic, well researched boxing movie in which Wise exposed the sport's cruel and exploitative nature.^[35] The film also included choreographed fight scenes and "set the bar" for other fight films.^[36] The film earned the Critic's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.^[37] Wise's use and mention of time in this film would echo in later noir films such as Stanley Kubrick's The Killing(1956) and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994).^[38][39]