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"Between the Great Depression and the start of the Cold War, Hollywood went noir, reflecting the worldly, weary, wised-up under current of midcentury America. In classics such as Laura, Sweet Smell of Success, and Double Indemnity, where the shadows of L.A. and New York pulse with killers, corpses, and perilous romance, failure is not only a logical option but a smart-talking seduction."

- Vanity Fair March 2007

"So you're unhappy. Relax. No law says you got to be happy."

"She liked me. I could feel that. The way you feel when the cards are falling right for you, with a nice little pile of blue and yellow chips in the middle of the table. Only what I didn’t know then was that I wasn’t playing her. She was playing me, with a deck of marked cards and the stakes weren’t any blue and yellow chips. They were dynamite... Yes. I killed him. I killed him for money and for a woman. I didn't get the money, and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?"

Film Reviews

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
711 Ocean Drive (1950)
Ace In The Hole (1952)
Act of Violence (1948)
Angel Face (1952)
The Air I Breathe (2007)
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Heat (1953) Revisited
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Big Steal (1949)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Body and Soul (1947)
Boomerang (1947)
Brick (2005)
Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
Cat People (1942)
Clash By Night (1952)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Crime Wave (1954)
Criss-Cross (1949)
Crossfire (1947)
Dark City (1998)
The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Decoy (1946)
Desert Fury (1947)
Destination Murder (1950)
Detective Story (1951)
Detour (1945)
The Devil Thumbs A Ride (1947)
D.O.A (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Fear in the Night (1947)
File On Thelma Jordan (1950)
Force of Evil (1948)
Fury (1936)
Gambling House (1950)
The Ghost Ship (1943)
Gilda (1946)
The Glass Web (1953)
The Good Die Young (1954)
Gun Crazy (1950)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Human Desire (1954)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Journey Into Fear (1943)
Key Largo (1948)
The Killers (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Killing (1956)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss of Death (1947)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
The Leopard Man (1943)
The Locket (1946)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Man Hunt (1941)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Night And the City (1950)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Out Of The Past (1947)
Out Of The Past (1947)
Panic In the Streets (1950)
Pickup On South Street (1953)
Possessed (1947)
Postman Always Rings Twice
The Prowler (1951)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Rififi (1955)
Roadblock (1951)
Road House (1948)
Ruthless (1948)
San Quentin (1946)
Scarlet Street (1946)
Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
The Sniper (1952)
Split Second (1953)
Stranger on The 3rd Floor
The Stranger (1946)
Stray Dog (Japan 1949)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
They Live by Night (1948)
They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Underworld USA (1961)
Union Station (1950)
Vertigo (1958)
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
White Heat (1949)
Woman in the Window (1944)
Woman on the Run (1950)