Ruth Orkin

Standing in Another Man's Grave # 2

Godfather II

The Burglar

A Prophet

Killers Kiss

To Live and Die in L.A

Odds Against Tommorow

Bad Day at Black Rock

Paths of Glory

Consequences of Love

Pale Flower

Le Samourai

Underworld USA

The Conformist

You've Got Forever

           You've got forever ; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever ; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

Jim Thompson

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Martin Munkacsi
Rio de Janeiro 
reblogged from Greeneyes

On the Picket Line

           Dashiell Hammett was allegedly offered five G's to perform a contract hit. It is most likely a mythic premise. He was a Pinkerton operative at the time. A stooge for Anaconda Copper made the offer. The intended victim was a union organiser. The stooge had every reason to believe Hammett would take the job -  post-world-war-one Pinkertons were a goon squad paranoiaclly fearful of all perceived reds. His mythic refusal is a primer on situational ethics. He knew it was wrong and didn't do it. He stayed with an organisation that in part suppressed dissent and entertained murderous offers on occasion.

The Poet of Collision
James Ellroy
The Guardian Newspaper
Sept 2007

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Gera Mills
Passaic strike,New Jersey
1926

Burn in Noir

                   You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame - How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes.

Neitchsze

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reblogged from Sblzk

The Savage Eye

        An innovative Independent 1960 docu/drama following a divorcee as she moves to L.A to start a new life and confronts the daily images of the impersonal city. Written/directed by Ben Maddow ( involved in Asphalt Jungle, Murder by Contract & Johnny Guitar ) and  photographed by Haskell Wexler and Helen Levitt among others. It is a stark portrait of one person's sense of isolation.

Stared at Her

                        I put a cigarette in my mouth and stared at her. She looked a little pale and strained, but she looked like a girl who could function under a strain.

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
1939

Never Gonna Tell You

                        But nobody never gonna tell you the way
                        You gotta figure it out boys
                        And suffer the rain, and the fools in the night, and the heat of the day
                        When all you really wanted was for someone to understand

Brian Fallon
Gaslight Anthem

reblogged from Keya-de-miye-do

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Thomas Ott  

Frames

Lady from Shanghai

Blast of Silence

Rififi

Double Indemnity

Drive

Pale Flower

Millers Crossing

Killers Kiss

Hard Eight

In the Mood for Love

The Trial

Memento

Twelve Angry Men

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Trapped

           Just a few more miles he thought. Just a few more miles and he'd be home, if you could call an empty room in a run-down hotel home. Just a few more miles and he could take a hot bath and drink himself to sleep.

Lawrence Block
Lie Back and Enjoy

from Trapped Detective Story Magazine
October 1958

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Constantin Joffe
Vogue Magazine 1947