Cry Danger

 

 

 

Cry Danger

Robert Parrish

1951



Stare Into my Face

       The sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

James Crumley
The Last Good Kiss
1978

Day Lady Died

    Then i go back where i came from to Sixth Avenue
    And the tobacconist in the Zeigfield theatre and
    casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a
    carton of Picayunes and a New York Post with her face on it

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The Day Lady Died
Frank O'Hara
1964

Sexy Beast

Sexy Beast

Jonathan Glazer

2000

Fool to want you

You Don't Own Mine

             ''Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine ................''

Raymond Chandler
High Window
1942  

Darkness take my Hand ......18

The Untouchables

The Gangster

Phantom lady

The Croupier

The Set Up

The Prowler

Millers Crossing

Detour

More Courage to Live

In the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus



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In the Mood for Love
2000

Milton Krasner

Scarlet Street

Dark Mirror

The Set Up

Violent Saturday  (uncredited)

Woman in the Window

St Valentines Day Massacre

Do Not Need a God

Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Andreas Feininger

Facts of a Dream

          To call a movie 'dreamlike' reeks of cliché but Detour presents the elements of Film Noir in such a pure, naked state that you have little choice but to accept them directly, the way you would accept the facts of a dream.

Colin Marshall

Openculture.com

2012



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Detour 1945

                    https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6257-some-detours-to-detour

Hide it's Light .....

The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to crying

And the moon'll hide it's light

When you get the blues in the night

Blues in the Night

(Arlen/Mercer)

Ella Fitzgerald

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Violent Saturday

1955

Cover their Hands

The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips and other disfigurements which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large soft-leather gloves.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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It Got Dark ......

Another hour went by. It got dark and the rain-clouded lights of the stores were soaked up by the black street. Street-car bells jangled crossly.

Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

1939



Always a Race

   There's always a race against time ...........

Gloria Grahame

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Gloria Grahame

Upon Which it Preys

Beware, my lord, of jealousy, It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat upon which it preys.

Shakespeare



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Othello 

Orson Welles

1952

                               http://thenighteditor.blogspot.com/2019/07/othello-1952.html

A Mess of Grief

      Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

James Lee Burke

Max Dupain