Rope

               ............ the best thing here is the studio skyline backdrop with fibreglass clouds, a studio sun and neon lights that blink a garish green and red as the film reaches its climax.

Pamela Hutchison
The Guardian
2012

Whatever I Did

Laura

Laura
Otto Premminger
1944

She Wore .........

                     She wore red lipstick and drank bourbon ; he never stood a chance.

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Amy Stokes

Round Midnight

Every Sinner ........... 13

 Gloria

Narrow Margin

 The Killing

 Postman always Rings Twice

Dark Passage

The Offence

Death of a Cyclist

 Vertigo

Double Indemnity

Shutter Island

The Killers

Chinatown

Pale Flower

Pale Flower
Masahiro Shinoda
1964

Too Damn Much

                      You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye
1953

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Robert Abbett

God and the Devil

         The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of the man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fred Stein
Paris 1934

Joan Crawford

 Mildred Pierce

Flamingo Road

Sudden Fear

Possessed

Damned Don't Cry

Johnny Guitar

Crawford

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All Behind

I don't have any reasons

I left them all behind

I'm in a New York state of mind

New York State of Mind
(Joel)
Carmen McRae

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Esther Bubley
1943

Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy
2014

Little to Say

   He did nothing. The law has little to say on things left undone.

Vertigo
Hitchcock
1958

Given To Us .........

           Do you think that i count the days ?  There is only one day left, always starting over ; it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Boris Smelov

Le Trou

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/7-reasons-why-le-trou-is-the-best-prison-escape-movie-ever-made/

Snake at the Trough

A snake came to my water trough
On a hot, hot day and I in pyjamas for the heat
To drink there

In the deep strange scented shade of the great carob tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before me

Snake
D.H Lawrence
1923

Who You Are

                             The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Fremont street, Las Vegas
1949

Every Sinner ................ 12

Night and the City

The Grifters

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

 Hammett

Lady from Shanghai

Friends of Eddie Coyle

 Gun Crazy

Plein Soleil

Touch of Evil