Possibilty of Failure

There is no success where there is no possibility of failure.

Raymond Chandler

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Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck. #

Touch of Evil

Casino

The Burglar

Feux Rouges

Force of Evil

They Shoot Horses Don't They

The Set Up

The Conversation

A Man Escaped

Femme Infidele

Rififi

Last Seduction

Detour

Plein Soleil

Raging Bull

Atlantic City

Night and the City

Rope

To Have and Have Not

Body Heat

In Cold Blood

The Grifters

Force of Evil

Cards Are Stacked

             If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

John D Macdonald

Blackfire Ink

Chinatown

 

Chinatown

(Goldsmith)

Nicholas Payton

Didn't Matter to Him

    Moose never would have hurt her. It didn't matter to him that she hadn't written in six years ....

Robert Mitchum/ Phillip Marlowe

Farewell My Lovely

1975

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True Confessions

Caleb Deschanel

Killer Joe

Ask the Dust

Twin Peaks

One Cannot Reap

       Patience is necessary and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Soren Kierkegard

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On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

Elie Kazan

1954

Nightfall

David Goodis

Deadline Noir

Sweet Smell of Success

Northside 777

Public Eye

Ace in the Hole

State of Play (2003)

Scandal Sheet

Absence of Malice

Good Night and Good Luck

Zodiac

Night Editor

Nightcrawler

I Want to Live

All the President's Men