Realism Painted with Darkness: T-Men and the Docu-noir Aesthetic of Anthony Mann and John Alton Christopher Weedman May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Anthony Mann’s T-Men (1947) is a significant entry in the classic American film noir cycle and, arguably, the best of the subcycle of “docu-noirs” that was released by Hollywood in the wake of the financial suc...