Old black/white movies with fast talking guys

"Fast talking guys" jaysus, I'm not sure that's exactly a sub-genre

I recommend His Girl Friday or Arsenic and Old Lace, both are fantastic and very funny

Also check out White Heat starring James Cagney.

Theres all the fast talking guys you'd ever want or need in that one.:)

Are they the ones where "buster" is often used as an insult?

E.g. the gin-drinking, chain-smoking, sultry femme fatale wearing a satin negligée at all times saying to the hard-boiled detective in a husky voice: "You got some nerve turnin' up here buster"... before blowing him?

Think this was actually the done thing, people just reading a script and if it was lighthearted attempting to be zany.

then Brandos 'On the Waterfront' introduced us to method acting

starbelgrade wrote: »

Why you insignificant, square-toed, pimpled-headed goon. I outta bust your puny littlle ass. If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong, you great big bubble-headed baboon.

Well how do ya like that? I don't even know this guy!

Let's get out of here!

(Puts on hat and leaves)

Dudess wrote: »

Are they the ones where "buster" is often used as an insult?

E.g. the gin-drinking, chain-smoking, sultry femme fatale wearing a satin negligée at all times saying to the hard-boiled detective in a husky voice: "You got some nerve turnin' up here buster"... before blowing him?

Nobody did any blowin' in the days before the world was in colour, on camera anyway. And they weren't femmes fatale, they were dames and loose women.:)

Giselle wrote: »

they weren't femmes fatale, they were dames and loose women.:)

And "broads".