Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #136

Scandal Sheet

Angel Heart

Act of Violence

Body Heat

Another Dawn

Chinatown

Criss Cross

Vertigo

Third Man

Atlantic City

Deadline at Dawn

True Detective

Le Doulos

The Grifters

Fallen Angel

LA Confidential

The Set Up

Kalifornia

The Killers (1946)

Se7en

Touch of Evil

Reservoir Dogs

Sweet Smell of Success

Rear Window

The Killing

Le Samourai

Somewhere in the Night

Memento

Key Largo

Pulp Fiction

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Goodfellas

Panic in the Streets

Mona Lisa

Nightmare Alley (1947)

Mikey and Nicky

Roadblock

Last Seduction

You Don't Get Rich

          You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed in the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head.

Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye
1953

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Early Raymond Chandler

Scram, Go Home

The Grifters
Stephen Frears
1990

Hurt Will Fade

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Ernest Hemingway

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Benton Spruance

More Fright Noir

Dark City

Carnival of Souls

Crash (1996)

Leopard Man

Identity (2003)

Hour of the Wolf

Shutter Island

Eyes Without a Face

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Dementia

Jacobs Ladder

Ghost Ship (1943)

Fleeter of Foot

            She caught up her purse and she ran, ran as if she raced with Death, and as if Death were the fleeter of foot.

Dorothy B. Hughes

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KappaNeuro