"Inspired by my friend Bobby Driscoll’s performance in The Window (1949), Robert Strom has written a groundbreaking book. The research and fifty interviews offer rare insight into the Golden Age of Hollywood and the genre of film noir. Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir is the film historian’s labor of love." – Russ Tamblyn Actress Mimi Gibson of Strange Intruder (1956) and The Brothers Rico (1957) calls author Robert Strom the “Detective of Film Noir”.