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Thursday 14 January 2016

Counted for More


             ....... What counted for more in Noir were the long shadows, the hard close-up faces, the leering buildings, the long black sighing cars, the beautiful ill-treated women, craggy  mobsters, cigarettes, black telephones ringing pointlessly in the night.

Gary Michael Dault
(on  Night and the City 1950)
July 2014

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