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Input (English): Context: Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly such that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classical film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression., The House Across the Lake is a 1954 British film released in the United States as Heat Wave . The film noir drama , filmed and set in England , stars Alex Nicol and Hillary Brooke , who are the only Americans in the cast . Brooke actually plays a British character , as she did in most films . ( Her mastery of a `` posh '' accent caused her to be typecast as British in Hollywood films starting in the 1940s . ), Hollywood (, informally Tinseltown ) is an ethnically diverse, densely populated, relatively low-income neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it., Hillary Brooke (September 8, 1914  May 25, 1999) was an American film actress. Though American-born, she began cultivating a sophisticated English accent to get more film parts early in her career. It eventually became second nature to her, and she was cast as a British woman in most of her films, including one that was produced in the United Kingdom., Subject: the house across the lake, Relation: country_of_origin, Options: (A) california (B) united kingdom
Output (English): united kingdom