Below it's Lush Exterior

             In my opinion film noir confronted audiences with realistic human emotions, and forced America to see that below it's lush exterior there was a world that showed the darker side of America's ideals, a world that had been torn apart by war and greed ............

Noir Cinematography

David Van Den Zanden

2010

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Night of the Hunter
1955

Classic Obscure Hardboiled

Street 8 - Douglas Fairbairn

Gypsy Good Time - Gustav Hasford

Texas Wind - James Reasoner

The Jones Men - Vern E Smith

Wax Apple - Tucker Coe

Dogs of Winter - Kem Nunn

Arizona Kiss - Raymond Ring

Feux Rouges - Georges Simenon

Nobody Move - Denis Johnson

You Play the Red and the Black Comes Up - Eric Knight

LA Diaries - James Brown

The Dishwasher - Dannie Martin

Whatever it Was

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered.

Dashiell Hammett

The Continental Op

1930



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Dashiell Hammett

Art of Noir

They Will Spin

Oh i can't sleep

All i got baby is a nickel and a nail

If i get lonely

I can spin a nickel, they will spin

A Nickel and a Nail

(Morrison/Robey)

O.V Wright

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Jack Manning

Something Crooked

        Shot most of the film with a wide-angle lens that distorted the buildings and emphasised the wet cobblestone streets. But the angle of vision was just to suggest that something crooked was going on.

Carol Reed
on The Third Man

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Ernst Haas

Robert Adams

Flicker of Phantom

My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice.

Iceberg Slim

Shame of Fools

          It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Horace

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Boris Smelov

Darkness take My Hand ............. 23

Armee Des Ombres

Killers Kiss

Party Girl

Kiss Me Deadly

In the Mood for Love

A Man Escaped

The Conversation

some images reblogged

via Sawedoffshotgun

Laughing Long Enough

         Every so often, the gods stop laughing long enough to do something horrible. There are few facts that are not horrible. The bitter, insufficient truth is that God's recovered but fun is dead.

Gustav Hasford

A Gypsy Good Time

1979

                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gypsy_Good_Time

More Ernst Haas

All You Can See

And you know she will be waiting there

And you'll find her somehow you swear

Somewhere tonight you run sad and free

Until all you can see is the night

The Night

(Springsteen)

Bruce Springsteen

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Angles of Vertigo

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock

1958