The Set Up

Filthy sawdust

Greasy brass

Finger smears on every glass

Dusty tumblers standing stacked
Before a mirror badly cracked
Thin tin
Colored signs
Advertising beer and wines
Hung dirt crusted ;
Fly specked ;
Rusted

excerpt from
The Set Up
Joseph Moncure March
1928

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Moments of Noir ........ part eleven

Double Indemnity

Lady from Shanghai

Sunset Boulevard

Touch of Evil

Detour

Big Combo

In a Lonely Place

The Set Up

The Killing

Pickup on South Street

The Sweet Smell of Success

Third Man

Shortcut to Hell #22

 The Offence

 The Set Up

Angel Heart

Crime Wave

 Dial M for Murder

Odds Against Tomorrow

Hit Me

Detour

 Hammett

The Big Combo

Let Him Have It

The Prowler

Mona Lisa

Thieves Highway

Le Samourai

Shortcut to Hell #20

 Odds Against Tomorrow

Rear Window

Scandal Sheet

Guilty By Suspicion

Une Si Jolie Petite Plage

The Set Up

Lost Highway

KIllers Kiss

Killing of a Chinese Bookie

The Trial

Bad Times at El Royale

In Cold Blood

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Pale Flower

Vertigo

Lift to the Scaffold

Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

What is Noir ?

Turner Classic Movies
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The Set Up

The Set Up
Robert Wise
1949

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