Philip Lathrop

They Shoot Horses Don't They

The Driver

Days of Wine and Roses

Point Blank

Touch of Evil (uncredited)

The Cincinnati Kid

The Grip of Fear (Experiment in Terror)

Killer Elite

Hard Times

Pouring Water on a Drowning Man

   You're pouring water
   On a drowning man
   You treat me like
   The fool that i am

   You planned it out
   Like everything you do
   You put salt in my wound
   It's sad but it's true

Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
(Baker/ McCormick)
James Carr

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Absolut Melissa

Jukebox Blues

Ninety nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Willie Nelson

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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Otis Rush

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Bernie Fuchs

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Meet Me in the Morning

            Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha
            Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha
            Honey, we could be in Kansas
            By the time the snow begins to thaw


Meet Me in the Morning
Bob Dylan
1974

Classic Fragments 6 - Legendary Opening Shot

       Orson Welles' baroque Noir Touch of Evil  from 1958 has what has now been acknowledged as one of the most ambitious lengthy opening shots ever filmed.

Jive Noir - Easy Rawlins

                 That night i went to the Cosy Room on Slauson. It was a small shack with walls that were held together by tar paper, chicken wire and nails. It stood in the middle of a big vacant lot, lop-sided and ungainly. The only indication you got that it was inhabited was the raw pine plank over the door .It had the word 'Entrance' painted on it in dripping black letters.

Red Death
Walter Mosley
1991

Asses That Forgot

                  You boys can keep your virgins. Give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Charles Bukowski

Stone Seem Flesh

           Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing it's white brain and it's heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a light bulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh alive, webbed and pulsing.

Truman Capote

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Stanley Kubrick

Joseph McDonald

House of Bamboo

Call Northside 777

Dark Corner

Panic in the Streets

Warlock

Pickup on South Street

Viva Zapata

My Darling Clementine

Chains Ain't Medals

         It's always been one of my favourite book/movies and greatly underrated in many ways as a movie in terms of the appeal it should have to fans of Hardboiled/Noir. Cool Hand Luke was published in 1965 as a Fawcett paperback original from ideas that the author Donn Pearce had while serving time on a Florida chain gang for a safecracking conviction.

        Luke Jackson may be seen as an allegorical symbol with a similarities to the old fisherman Santiago in Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea and Newman plays the character every bit as well as those he did in The Hustler and  Hud. 

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David Amblard

Joseph Losey

The Prowler

The Criminal

Blind Date

King and Country

Sleeping Tiger

Time Without Pity

The Servant

Any Girl

                  Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Heddy Lamarr