Film Noir

Kitty March: How long does it take you to paint a picture? Christopher Cross: Sometimes a day, sometimes a year....

Narrator: You're alone. But you don't mind that. You're a loner. That's the way it should be. You've always been...

Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton, 1942 New York: Random House, First American edition "Yes - he ought to have known, he...

Trailer of The Prowler, Joseph Losey, 1951 Crime novelist James Ellroy ("L.A. Confidential", "The Black Dahlia") once called this his favorite...

Captain Warren 'Rip' Murdock: I hated every part of her but I couldn't figure her out yet. I wanted to...

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) Director: Joseph H. Lewis Writers: Muriel Roy Bolton (screenplay), Anthony Gilbert (novel) Stars: Nina...

"A man always has a different name for strangers." “A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and...

Robert Siodmak, The Killers, 1946 Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien Charles McGraw and William Conrad in/are The Killers...

James M. Cain, Double Indemnity, 1945, cover by Paul Stahr Double Indemnity (1943), first published in...

Dr. Michael Barkstane: We've decided she's our dream girl just from that picture. Richard Wanley: Is it yours? Alice Reed:...