The Burglar

 The Burglar
Paul Wendkos
1957

Lou Stoumen

Poetry Noir

Ghost of a Chance beat out 

Farmer's Dance

by a nose and i saw

my escape-hatch cash

turn to ash

Kevin Young

Black Mariah

2007

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Jack Vettriano

Born Under a Bad Sign #4

Lady from Shanghai

Get Carter

High Sierra

The Conversation

Brighton Rock

LA Confidential

This Gun for Hire

The Grifters

Odd Man Out

Time Grew Cold

Today the world is old

You flew away and time grew cold

Last Night When We Were Young

(Harburg/Arlen)

Sinatra

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Sinatra recording 
1950s

Question of Going Out

         There was always reluctance, dilatoriness, strife, whenever any question of going out on an errand arose.

Cornell Woolrich

Black Alibi

1942

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Cover for Dig my Grave Deep
1956

Noir Feast

Jeremy Mann

An Untroubled Believer

            ...... it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul ; the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once or twice a month, confessing to his vocational sins - duplicity, for example- in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. He'd grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that.

Alan Furst
Spies of Warsaw
2006

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Postman Always Rings Twice

LA Confidential

The Onion Field

Millers Crossing

They Shoot Horses Don't They ?

Killer Inside Me

Chinatown

Hoffa

Dance with a Stranger

Shutter Island

Do Nothin till you Hear

Do nothin till you hear from me

Pay no attention to what's said

Why people tear the seam of anyone's dream

Is over my head

Do Nothin till you Hear from Me

(Ellington/Russell)

Nina Simone

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Jeffrey Smith

It Has No Choice

        You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

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Monica Belluci

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