There are criminals in it and sometimes they sit in rooms that have shadows, and it's in black-and-white, and I guess that's enough for some people to want to call it a noir. To me it's an engaging tale of a bunch of clever, can-do crooks cooking up a way-out scheme to pull off the daytime robbery of a racetrack.

I'm trying to think of the scenes that'd be the closest to noir, and I keep coming back to scenes of downtrodden little Elisha Cook Jr. and his nagging wife Marie Windsor. But most of Windsor's lines are so funny, you laugh your way through those scenes!