Fragments of Noir: October 2020

Saturday, 31 October 2020

Back of My Head

That money. I had to keep it. Somehow. It beat like a very small drum at the back of my head. A small and very distant drum .......

Red Scarf

Gil Brewer

1958

https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/the-red-scarf-1958-by-gil-brewer/

Dirty Femmes #6

James Avati

Ernest Chiriaka

unknown

George Gross

Robert McGinnis

Sam Peffer

James Meese

Friday, 30 October 2020

Dark Passage

Dark Passage
Delmer Daves
1947
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039302/

A Beautiful Twilight

Truth, like light, binds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Albert Camus

image

Martel Chapman

Albert Camus

Big Lonely City #131

Louis Stettner

Walter Sanders

unknown

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Vivian Maier

Robert Doisneau

Sonia Handelman

Don Donaghy

unknown

Edwin Rosskam

Ben Maddow

unknown

Walker Evans

some images reblogged via Noirsville.blogspot.com

Thursday, 29 October 2020

Waited for You

I Waited for You
(Fuller/Gillespie)
Miles Davis

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #43

Chinatown

Night of the Hunter

Michael Collins

Sweet Smell of Success

Day of the Locust

Detour

Brooklyn's Finest

The Burglar

Ask the Dust

From the Life of the Marionettes

Mikey and Nicky

some images reblogged

via Noirsville.blogspot.com

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

A shudder streaked through Cassidy, and in the deep ridges of his mind he saw the bottle as a loathsome, grotesque creature that had lured Doris and captured her and pleasured itself with her, draining the sweet life from her body as it poured it's rottenness into her. He saw the bottle as something poisonous and altogether hateful, and Doris completely helpless in it's grasp.

Cassidy's Girl

David Goodis

1951

https://nbmagazine.co.uk/nightfall-cassidys-girl-and-night-squad-by-david-goodis/