Good pick. The writer agrees with you in his first blog post on noir:
“The purest noirs Ive seen so far are Double Indemnity (1944), Detour (1945), Decoy (1946), and Raw Deal (1948). “
A link to his first post:
https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/notes-on-noir/
Thanks for the link.
Don’t forget my favorite, Out of the Past.