The Hot Spot

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

Charles Williams

The Hot Spot  - 1953

The Hot Spot
Dennis Hopper
1990

Long Slow Dance

         The swells rose sluggishly and fell away. Casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing it's long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no-one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of the waves on the pilings.

Ross MacDonald
The Drowning Pool
1950

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Anna Marias

You'll Never Have

        The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Soren Kierkegaard

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More Wages of Fear

Wages of Fear

Henri-Georges Clouzot

1953

Somebody Else's Money

Hammett

Hammett
Wim Wenders
1982

You Are an Accomplice

If you want to deserve hell, you need only stay in bed ; the world is iniquity. If you accept it you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Vincent Versace

Every Sinner ............ 23

Mikey and Nicky

Criss Cross

 Delusion

Manhunt

Armee des Ombres

 Narrow Margin

Point Blank

Scarlet Street

The Offence

Two Drinks Ahead

                   I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk.

James Crumley

People Will Say

       But why should you care what people will say ?  All you have to do is please yourself.

Ayn Rand

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More Set Up

The Set Up
Robert Wise
1949