Town That Small

Body Heat
Lawrence Kasdan
1981

There By Itself

          But the descriptions were always there - one of the strongest threads running through the novels from first to last. And even at their most acridly poisonous they still kept something of the wide-eyed lyricism of that beautiful line in Farewell My Lovely about a dark night in the canyons - the night Marlowe drove Lindsay Marriott to meet his death. "A yellow window hung here and there by itself, like the last orange".

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The Country Behind the Hill : Raymond Chandler

Clive James

1977

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Johan Leion

Marilyn

Don't Bother to Knock

Clash By Night

Niagara

Asphalt Jungle

The Misfits

Marilyn Offscreen

They Call Sin

           They make rules that they call laws, and they call sin anything that scares them in other people. That's the truth, brother !  If they didn't shake in their boots, if they were real men, they'd have no need for police forces and law courts, for preachers and churches, no need for banks, for life-insurance, for Sunday schools and red and green lights at the street corners.

Red Lights
Georges Simenon
1953

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Life in the Shadows #57

Accident

Double Indemnity

Vertigo

Out of the Past

Perry Mason (2020)

Small Back Room

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Rebecca

Road to Perdition

Nightmare Alley (1949)

Godfather II

Gun Crazy

Chinatown

Strangers on a Train

Blade Runner

Pickup on South Street

Heat

Sunset Boulevard

Carol

Lady from Shanghai

Johnny Guitar

Pulp Fiction

Phantom Lady

Se7en

The Set Up

Rear Window

Murder My Sweet

Plein Soleil

Night of the Hunter

Lost Highway

Les Diaboliques

The Killers (1964)

Sid

Sounds for Sid

(Adderley)

Cannonball Adderly and Milt Jackson

Dark Femmes #23

Rachel Stein - Black Book (2006)

Lily Stevens - Road House (1948)

Rachael - Blade Runner

Therese - Therese Raquin (The Adultress)

Bridget Gregory - Last Seduction

Kelly - Naked Kiss

Carol Richman - Phantom Lady

Catherine Trammell - Basic Instinct

Maria Mendez - La Otra

Mary DeBoya - Cat Chaser

Kitty Collins - The Killers (1946)

La Linda - Card Counter

Edie Johnson - No Way Out (1950)

Matty Walker - Body Heat

Belle - Belle et Bete

Nelly Lenz - Phoenix (2014)

Linda Lawson - The Beast Must Die (1952)

Susan Morrow - Nocturnal Animals

Louise Francois Guerin - Eyes Without a Face