Cards Are Stacked

                                 If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

John D Macdonald

Blackfire Ink

Chinatown

 

Chinatown

(Goldsmith)

Nicholas Payton

Didn't Matter to Him

    Moose never would have hurt her. It didn't matter to him that she hadn't written in six years ....

Robert Mitchum/ Phillip Marlowe

Farewell My Lovely

1975

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True Confessions

Caleb Deschanel

Killer Joe

Ask the Dust

Twin Peaks

One Cannot Reap

       Patience is necessary and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Soren Kierkegard

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On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

Elie Kazan

1954

Nightfall

David Goodis

Deadline Noir

Sweet Smell of Success

Northside 777

Public Eye

Ace in the Hole

State of Play (2003)

Scandal Sheet

Absence of Malice

Good Night and Good Luck

Zodiac

Night Editor

Nightcrawler

I Want to Live

All the President's Men

The Other Way

         Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

Lawrence Block

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse - 1991

Mosaic Noir #216

Asphalt Jungle

Killer Inside Me (2010)

High Sierra

Lone Star

Les Diaboliques

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Black Book (Reign of Terror)

Lost Highway

Man Who Wasn't There

Peeping Tom

Lost Weekend

Armee Des Ombres

Highsmith

Loving Highsmith
Eva Vitija - 2022

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #138

Rear window

Key Largo

Babylon Berlin

Pale Flower

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Une si Jolie Petite Plage

Straight Time

Odds Against Tomorrow

True Confessions

Death of a Cyclist

Taxi Driver

Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Croupier

The Set Up

Millers Crossing

Valley of Elah

Touch of Evil

Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Phantom Lady

Bad Day at Black Rock

The Hustler

Agatha

Black Book (Reign of Terror)