Toso Dabac

Mosaic Noir #53

Lady from Shanghai

The Lives of Others

Lost Weekend

Come Back Charleston Blue

Third Man

Nightcrawler

To Say Goodbye .........

          The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye

1953

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Rene Burri
Terminus, Rome 1956

Harlem cycle

Chester Himes (left)

Unwashed, Unwanted .....

      ....... the protagonist's paranoia, his sense of being mired in a dirty alien place - unwashed, unwanted, uncomprehending.

Michael Almereyda

Bad Luck All Around

2015

Ride the Pink Horse

Robert Montgomery

1947

Made Them Forget

          ........ I've seen men in the ring who could take the other guy, twice a week, without getting up a sweat.  But for some reason they'd be scared of the other fellow and they'd get beat up bad. It seemed as though fear made them forget everything they'd ever known about fighting.

Don Tracy
Criss Cross
1934

reblogged from Noirboiled notes

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Sean Phillips

Night We Called it a Day

The moon went down, stars were gone

But the sun didn't rise with the dawn

There wasn't a thing left to say

The night we called it a day

Night We called it a Day

(Adair/ Dennis)

Sinatra

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Sotiris Tsakanikas

Rene Jacques #2

All Time Detective Noir

Phillip Marlowe - Raymond Chandler
Hoke Moseley - Charles Willeford
Lew Archer - Ross MacDonald
Sam Spade - Dashiell Hammett
Matt Scudder - Lawrence Block

Dave Robicheaux - James Lee Burke
Easy Rawlins - Walter Mosley
Coffin Ed Johnson & Gravedigger Jones - Chester Himes
Mitch Tobin - Tucker Coe (Donald Westlake)
John Marshall Tanner - Stephen Greenleaf
Derek Strange - George Pelecanos
Harry Stoner - Jonathan Valin