Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo, in his film debut
1947, Kiss of Death
Category: film noir
1945, PRC Pictures
1990 Paramount picture
The city's different at night. The air smells better. It's harder to see that the oil rigs outnumber the palm trees and it's almost like the good old days. At least the way I'd
like to remember them. Stay in this business long enough and every street leads to a place you'd like to forget. Every case brings back memories of what might have been, and every skirt reminds you of another woman.
Or, if you've got it bad enough, the same woman.
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sequel to Chinatown, written by Robert Towne, directed by Jack Nicholson
poster illustration by Rodriquez
Double Indemnity (Paramount, 1944).
Double Indemnity (Paramount, 1944). Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27.25″ X 41″).
1961, Blast Of Silence
1956 Lion reissue ~ cover art by Charles Copeland
cover art by Charles Copeland
Criss-Cross, 1934 Vanguard hardcover, basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
Build My Gallows High/Out of the Past
1946 William Morrow, first edition.
Geoffrey Homes, Build My Gallows High, 1946 Morrow hardcover
1956 Ace Double paperback reissue
cover art by Harry Barton
basis for the 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past
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1944 RKO poster
adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely, his second novel with LA PI Philip Marlowe
1953 film noir directed by Ida Lupino
1953 film noir directed by Ida Lupino
creepy film in which two guys pick up a hitch-hiker who is an escaped convict who, even when he’s asleep, always has one eye half-way open. the convict is played by William Talman, who went on to become Perry Mason’s nemesis, DA Hamilton Burger.
SMB Noir 