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I write about Film Noir, Neo Noir, 1960s - '70s Crime Films and TV #LifeAndDeathInLA - — :paulparcellin

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Joseph Cotten, "The Third Man" (1949). #filmnoir
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Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray, "Double Indemnity" (1944). #filmnoir
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Rita Hayworth, "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947). #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, Martha Vickers, “The Big Sleep” (1946). #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, Martha Vickers, "The Big Sleep" (1946). #filmnoir
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Based on an equally confusing novel by Raymond Chandler, the screenplay for "The Big Sleep" was handled by the likes of the legendary William Faulkner, Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett. #filmnoir
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Joseph Cotten, "The Third Man" (1949). #filmnoir
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Jane Russell, "His Kind of Woman" (1951). #filmnoir
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Martha Vickers, "The Big Sleep" (1946). #filmnoir
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Lauren Bacall, "Dark Passage" (1947). #filmnoir
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Robert Mitchum, “Out of the Past” (1947). #filmnoir
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Agnes Moorehead, "Dark Passage" (1947). #filmnoir
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Lana Turner, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946). #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, Elisha Cook Jr., "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) #filmnoir
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Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, "The Big Heat" (1953). #filmnoir
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Lana Turner, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946). #filmnoir
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Michael Caine, “Get Carter” (1971). #neonoir
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Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, "Touch of Evil" (1958). #FilmNoir
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Self-proclaimed preacher and serial killer Rev. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) tracks down a jailed bank robber's family to find $10,000 the holdup man squirreled away. His kids know where the money is and Powell aims to find it. "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) #filmnoir
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Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, "The Big Sleep" (1946). #filmnoir
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Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart, "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). #filmnoir
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Henry Fonda, Alfred Hitchcock, “The Wrong Man” (1956). #Hitchcock
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Spencer Tracy, "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955). #filmnoir
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Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957). #filmnoir
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“Double Indemnity” might have had a very different ending than the one we’re familiar with. But director Billy Wilder chose to cut what he called one of the best scenes he’d ever filmed. #filmnoir
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Robert Ryan, Nita Talbot, "On Dangerous Ground" (1951). #filmnoir
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Orson Welles, "The Third Man" (1949). #FilmNoir
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Edward G. Robinson, “Key Largo” (1948). #filmnoir
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Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson, "The Woman in the Window" (1944). #FilmNoir
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Thelma Ritter, Grace Kelly, James Stewart, "Rear Window" (1954).
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Thelma Ritter, Richard Widmark, "Pickup on South Street" (1953). #filmnoir
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Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart, "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). #filmnoir
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Robert Walker, “Strangers on a Train” (1951). #hitchcock #filmnoir
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Lauren Bacall, "Dark Passage" (1947). #filmnoir
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Not only does Rope deserve technical praise beyond its extended shots, but the story raises philosophical questions and demonstrates Hitchcock's affinity for a subtlety far ahead of his time. #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948). #filmnoir
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By avoiding anything from before the year 2000, younger audiences are limiting themselves both in terms of education and enjoyment. #filmnoir #classicfilm
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Jane Greer, “Out of the Past” (1947). #filmnoir
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Lee Marvin, “Point Blank” (1967). #neonoir
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Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, “Sweet Smell of Success” (1957). #filmnoir
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James Cagney, “White Heat” (1949). #filmnoir
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Richard Widmark, “Night and the City” (1950). #filmnoir
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Clifton Webb, "Laura" (1944). #FilmNoir
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Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Harry Hayden, "The Killers" (1946). #filmnoir
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Alida Valli, "The Third Man" (1949). #filmnoir
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Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, "Gilda" (1946). #filmnoir
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Robert Mitchum, "Out of the Past" (1947). #filmnoir
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“Double Indemnity” might have had a very different ending than the one we’re familiar with. But director Billy Wilder chose to cut what he called one of the best scenes he’d ever filmed. #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, "High Sierra" (1941). #filmnoir
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Alida Valli, Joseph Cotten, "The Third Man" (1949). #filmnoir
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Dana Andrews, “Laura” (1944). #filmnoir
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Orson Welles, "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947). #filmznoir
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Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, "Notorious" (1946). #filmnoir
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Rarely, if ever, have there been such brutally antipathetic leads in a mainstream film as Kirk Douglas’s scoop-or-die reporter and Jan Sterling’s breathtakingly callous victim’s wife. #filmnoir
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Elisha Cook Jr., “The Maltese Falcon” (1941). #filmnoir
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Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, "The Third Man" (1949). #filmnoir
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Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, "The Night of the Hunter" (1955). #filmnoir
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William Holden, Gloria Swanson, "Sunset Boulevard"(1950). #filmnoir
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Barbara Stanwyck, “Double Indemnity” (1944). Below, the Dietrichson residence.
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Lizabeth Scott, Humphrey Bogart, "Dead Reckoning" (1947). #filmnoir
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Robert Mitchum, “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (1973). #neonoir
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Lillian Gish, "The Night of the Hunter" (1955). #filmnoir
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Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, “Sweet Smell of Success” (1957). #filmnoir
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Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, "Angel Face" (1952). #filmnoir
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Gloria Grahame, "Crossfire" (1947). #filmnoir
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Jane Greer, “Out of the Past” (1947). #filmnoir
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Barbara Stanwyck, "Double Indemnity" (1944) #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). #filmnoir
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Gene Tierney and Vincent Price in “Laura” (1944). #filmnoir
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Kim Novak, "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955). #drama #noir
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Robert Mitchum, Raymond Burr, "His Kind of Woman" (1951) #filmnoir
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Edward G. Robinson, Dan Duryea, “Scarlet Street” (1945). #filmnoir
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Robert Ryan, Nita Talbot, “On Dangerous Ground” (1951). #filmnoir
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Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, "Notorious" (1946). #filmnoir
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Michael Caine, “Get Carter” (1971). #BritNoir
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Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart, “In a Lonely Place” (1950). #filmnoir
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Robert Mitchum, "Out of the Past" (1947). #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, "In a Lonely Place" (1950). #filmnoir
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Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, "Out of Past" (1947). #filmnoir
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Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, "Scarlet Street" (1944). #filmnoir
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Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, "Dead Reckoning" (1947). #filmnoir
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Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford, “Human Desire” (1954). #filmnoir
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Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford "The Big Heat" (1953). #filmnoir
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Orson Welles, "Touch of Evil" (1958). #filmnoir
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Cloris Leachman, "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955).
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Gloria Swanson, "Sunset Blvd" (1950). #filmnoir
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Doris Dowling, "The Blue Dahlia" (1946). #filmnoir
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Lizabeth Scott, “Too Late for Tears” (1949). #filmnoir
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Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook Jr., "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). #filmnoir
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Tom Neal, "Detour" (1945). #filmnoir
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Gloria Grahame, "The Big Heat" (1953). #filmnoir
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Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, “Sunset Boulevard” (1950). #filmnoir
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Robert Mitchum, Paul Valentine, “Out of the Past” (1947). #filmnoir
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Coleen Gray, Tyrone Power, "Nightmare Alley" (1947). #filmnoir
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James Cagney, Steve Cochran, Virginia Mayo, "White Heat" (1949). #filmnoir #GangsterFilm
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