Joseph Biroc

Glass Wall

Hustle

Hammett

Convicts 4

 The Detective

Killer That Stalked New York

Run of the Arrow

Forty Guns

Grissom Gang

Garment Jungle

Tony Rome

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

Flight of the Phoenix

Attack !

Emperor of the North

Tempted

I bought a novel, some perfume
A fortune all for you
But it's not my conscience
Hating to be untrue
I asked of my reflection
What is there to do ?


Tempted
(Difford/Tillbrook)

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January Jones- Mad Men

Nightfall

Nightfall beautifully evokes the world of bus station lockers, casual pick-ups in bars, and newstands hawking out-of-town papers to the homesick : a lonely transient America.

Imogen Smith

Nightfall- Jacques Tourneur
1957

re-blogged from Dreamland Cafe
www.randybyers.net

The Long Goodbye

There was a girl beside him. Her hair was a lovely shade of dark red and she had a distant smile on her lips and over her shoulders she had a blue mink that almost made the Rolls-Royce look like just another automobile. It didn't quite. Nothing can.

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

1953

Gregory Crewdson

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

                                              All alone, the party is over

                                            Old man winter was a gracious host

                                               But when you keep praying

                                               for snow to hide the clover

                                       Spring can really hang you up the most

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

(Landesman/ Wolff)

Frank Sinatra

image Ted Allan
(Sinatra)

Burnett Guffey

Nightfall

Bonnie and Clyde

Birdman of Alcatraz

The Sniper

Brothers Rico

Harder they Fall

Human Desire

The Reckless Moment

In a Lonely Place

Undercover Man

Jive Noir - The Harlem Cycle

                 He drove the limousines for the funerals, brought in the dead in the pickup hearse, cleaned the chapel, washed the bodies and swept out the embalming room, hauled away the garbage cans of clotted blood, trimmed meat and rotten guts.

A Rage in Harlem

(For Love of Imabelle)

Chester Himes

1957

Classic Fragments3 - Phantom Lady

             The legendary drum scene from Phantom Lady featuring Elisha Cook Jr and Ella Raines. Brilliant in it's weirdness.

Watch You Fall

I can light up your smokes
I can laugh at your jokes
I can watch you fall down on your knees

I can close down this bar
Go and gas up my old car
I can pack up, Oh Lord, and mail in the key


Bartender's Blues
(J Taylor)
George Jones

Jack Carter's Return Home

          BBC radio 4 have dramatized in four episodes Ted Lewis's original novel upon which the 1971 Get Carter was based. They have also done a documentary on the brief career of Lewis who died at 42.

Ted Lewis on set