He's Not Much on Looks .......

Sometimes i say

If i could just get away

With my man

He'd go straight as sure as fate

For it never is too late

My Man

(Willmetz/Charles/Yvain)

Billie Holiday

That Giddy Sense

              I also loved the quickness, the ugliness, the assured fatality of James M Cain. That giddy sense that doom is cool. You just met a woman, you had your first kiss, you're six weeks away from the gas chamber ........

James Ellroy

Given One Right

            A man is given one right at birth ; to choose his own death. But if he chooses because he is weary of life then his entire existence has been without meaning.

Jean Pierre Melville
from
Deuxieme souffle
1966

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Marcel Bovis

Darkness Take My Hand ....... 11

The Killing

Le Cercle Rouge

Ride the Pink Horse

A Most Wanted Man

He Ran All the Way

In the Mood for Love

Brighton Rock

Last Seduction

T Men

Out of the Past

Croupier

Rififi

Rumblefish

Odds Against Tomorrow

Rapid Rise Back

           No relief from boredom even in their periodic plunges from euphoria to despair or their rapid rise back to the top again. They wake up mornings such as this, all but out of their minds with remorse.

Lost Weekend
Charles Jackson
1944

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Benn Mitchell

LAPD 1953

Mosaic Noir #73

Double Indemnity

Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Blood Simple

Strangers on a Train

Out of the Past

Dial M for Murder

Sunset Boulevard

Rebecca

Remembering the Future

      The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Soren Kierkegaard

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No Man of Her Own
1950

Gaston Paris

Carter

Get Carter
Mike Hodges
1971

Darkness Take My Hand ....... 10

Narrow Margin

Le Samourai

Sweet Smell of Success

Glengarry Glen Ross

Brighton Rock

Get Carter

Rififi

In the Mood for Love

Woman in the Window

A Man Escaped

Vertigo

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