
Category: film noir
1951 Lippert Pictures
1947, Kiss of Death

Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo, in his film debut
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


