'You'd sell out your own mother for a piece of fudge, but you're smart along with it. Smart enough to know when to sail and when to sit tight and you know you better sit tight in this case.' Sterling Hayden and Marie Windsor in Stanley Kubrick's masterful heist movie The Killing.

“I sat there like a penitent while the minute hand of the clock took little pouncing bites of eternity.”

—Ross Macdonald, THE GALTON CASE (1959)

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This is very good Williams.

Filming The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 1972.

Behind Robert Mitchum are Winter Hill Gang boss Howie Winter and gang associate-turned-actor Bobo Petricone, aka Alex Rocco, who starred as Moe Greene in The Godfather

“What was your signature scent in high school?”

Somewhere in a landfill in Ohio lies a ghastly maroon Carmike Cinemas uniform that still reeks of the mysterious industrial grease we used to cook popcorn.

Robert Maguire - Cover art for novel 'The Witnesses' (1957)

Please join us tomorrow night at 8PM E for a live tweet of the 1st The Maltese Falcon (1931). It's a lively pre-Code. Indeed, VERY pre-Code from the first moments...
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Finished DEATH’S OTHER KINGDOM today. Kudos to Coy Hall, who had the vision to merge a genre and historical event that were made for one another. The call for stories with longer word counts was another coup, allowing for a more immersive horror experience. Great stuff.

#NoirArtist : Jim Steranko

So grateful to have Punk #Noir publish my piece as part of their 'hell in a high rise' submission call. Thank you, guest editor James.C.Jenkins for including it! We have fewer high rises in #Detroit , but our fair share of hell.

Just finished I MARRIED A DEAD MAN (1948), which puts its morally compromised heroine through a stunning series of pinch points while exploring one of the great anxieties of the modern world: feeling like an imposter. Woolrich is somewhat maudlin here, but not ruinously so.

Made a pilgrimage to Powell’s books and scored this James M. Cain 3-in-1 novel collection! #noir

Put my sick day to good use by bingeing most of Netflix’s RIPLEY. The main character is more inscrutable than in the book, but I still think it’s one of the great Highsmith adaptations: chilling, languidly beautiful, and admirably thorough about the difficulty of corpse disposal.

Published after the Starkweather spree (and nine years before Manson), MacDonald’s stand-alone is not only among his best novels but closer to Jim Thompson in its violence, bleakness, and grotesque inner narratives

Billy Wilder: 'Chandler had never been inside a studio. Raymond Chandler was more of a cynic than me, because he was more of a romantic than I ever was. He has his own odd rules and thought Hollywood was just a bunch of phonies. I can’t say he was completely wrong...' #FilmNoir

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What’s the opening line of your WIP?

“She kept the knife sharp, just in case.”

Hey folks! The second article in my new series “Murder In The First” with Mystery Tribune just dropped. In this one, I discuss an author’s debut that had a profound impact on me: SA Cosby’s (@blacklionking73) MY DARKEST PRAYER. Hope y’all enjoy!

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