Dance with a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger
Mike Newell
1985

Red Wind

       There was only one other customer, a souse on a bar stool with his back to the door. He had a pile of dimes stacked neatly in front of him, about two dollars worth. He was drinking straight rye in small glasses and he was all by himself in a world of his own.

Red Wind
Raymond Chandler
1938

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Dick Whittington

On Noir Set #23

Chinatown

Devil in a Blue Dress

Asphalt Jungle

Godfather II

Key Largo

In the Mood for Love

Man with the Golden Arm

Night of the Hunter

Pulp Fiction

Once Upon a Time in America

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Touch of Evil

Rear Window

Reservoir Dogs

Lady from Shanghai

Taxi Driver

Third Man

Millers Crossing

Vertigo

And the Night

You and the Night and the Music
(Schwartz/Dietz)
Chet Baker

Grin and Walk

Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the canon smoke.

James Lee Burke

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David Vestal

Shadows by the Jukebox #3

The Grifters

Asphalt Jungle

Pulp Fiction

Sopranos

Anatomy of a Murder

Twin Peaks

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Detour

Mean Streets

Fallen Angel

Golden Glove

Goodfellas

Ordinary People

         ..... the books conjure the workaday rhythms and guilty secrets of Paris and small-town France. Simenon's is a world of second-class hotels and third-class railway carriages, of drifters, bargemen, tarts and luckless creditors. His interest was not in intellectuals or master criminals but in his beloved ordinary people - les petits gens. Ordinary people are driven to ordinary acts of violence and social outrage. Criminals look like us, Simenon seems to be saying. His motto "comprende et ne pas juger" (understand and judge not)

Ian Thomson
The Spectator
2019

   https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/if-only-georges-simenon-had-been-a-bit-more-like-maigret/

Another Dawn

Another Dawn
Julio Bracho
1943