An Easy Mark

          I'd finished my pie and was having a second cup of coffee when i saw him. The midnight freight had come in a few minutes before ; and he was peering in one end of the restaurant window, the end nearest the depot, shading his eyes with his hand and blinking against the light. He saw me watching him and his face faded back into the shadows. But i knew he was still there. I knew he was waiting. The bums always size me up for an easy mark.

The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
1952

Jim Thompson

http://sdcitybeat.com/culture/features/tour-noir-writer-jim-thompson-s-san-diego/

Dizziness of Freedom

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kiergegaard

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Vertigo 1958

Jason Langer #2

Always Remember

I always play Russian roulette in my head

It's seventeen black and twenty-nine red

How far from the gutter ; how far from the pew

I'll always remember to forget about you

A Good man is Hard to Find

(Waits/Brennan)

Tom Waits

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Sam Abell
1959

Noir Wedding

They Live by Night
Nicholas Ray
1948

Pain Has No Function

      Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain as pain has no function in a stationary organism.

William Burroughs
Junkie
1953

Darkness Take My Hand #8

Night and the City

Plein Soleil

Double Indemnity

Bad Day at Black Rock

Big Night

 Pale Flower

Rope

Lady from Shanghai

Armee Des Ombres

Kiss Me Deadly

Shutter Island

No Feeling is Final

       Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Christian De Metter #2

Huston and Kubrick

Paths of Glory

Kubrick filming

        Two legendary directors who made their names initially in Noir each have dark War
classics with Noirish feel and trust/betrayal undertones.

Red Badge of Courage

Mosaic Noir #70

Night and the City

Vertigo

Pale Flower

Rope

Lady from Shanghai

Bad Day at Black Rock

Lost Weekend

Le Cercle Rouge

When You're Down

 When you're down and out something always turns up - and it's usually the noses of your friends

Orson Welles

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Orson Welles
Third Man 1949

On the Ropes

    I just hope he could find somewhere where he could find a little peace. ..... Somewhere between nowhere and goodbye ......

FX Toole

''What's this Curve''

After Dark My Sweet
James Foley
1990

Albert Monier