William Wray

Jive Noir - Mosely

        A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not ?                                               

Walter Mosely
Devil in a Blue Dress
1990

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Friends of Eddie Coyle
Peter Yates
1974
                        https://thepinksmoke.com/friendsofeddiecoyle.htm

Make the Grade

Yes the strong gets more

And the weak ones fade

Empty pockets don't ever make the grade

God Bless the Child

(Herzog/ Holiday)

Billie Holiday

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Alfred Gescheidt
East 42nd street
New York

Trouble with People

The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

David Goodis

Herman Leonard

All Time Films Soleil

Memento

To Live and Die in LA

After Dark My Sweet

Internal Affairs

Dead Calm

Memento

Reservoir Dogs

Plein Soleil

Blood Simple

No Country for Old Men

Heat

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Last Seduction

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Talented Mr Ripley

Last Seduction

Delusion

Drive

Bad Day at Black Rock

Kill Me Again

Hickey and Boggs

Salton Sea

Nickel Ride

Reservoir Dogs

The Getaway

Sexy Beast

Point Blank

Red Rock West

The Grifters

Straight Time

Way of the Gun

Killer Inside Me

Leaving Las Vegas

Bad Day at Black Rock

Life Without Trust

It is impossible to go through life without trust ; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all. oneself.

Graham Greene

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German Greene cover 
reblogged from 50watts.com

Zodiac

Zodiac

David Fincher

2007

Fragments of a Crash

American art in the thirties sometimes reflected the hard times and the era of change which created it's winners and losers.

all images reblogged from
bjwsblogspot.co.uk

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
1948

Go the Distance

              ............. preparing to go the distance in the broadest sense of the phrase, a relentless managing of self that anyone who gets truly old must learn.

Carlo Rotella

American Highway

                                There's machines and there's fire waiting on the edge of town
                                They're out there for hire baby but they can't hurt us now

Drive All Night
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen
                               

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Ernst Haas