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"The poor dope - he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool." Sunset Boulevard (1950)
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"All the way to the end of the line, Walter...." Barbara Stanwyck lays it on the line as Phyllis Dietrichson in Wilder's Double Indemnity, 1945
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"With a million dollars baby, it doesn't matter..." Bob Mitchum in His Kind of Woman, 1950
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Raymond Burr tries to wake up Robert Mitchum so he can kill him in style inJohn Farrow's 1951 film His Kind of Woman
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Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor, 1940. Often considered the first film noir
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The looming figure of Moose Malloy, perfectly realised by Mike Mazurki, terrorises Marlowe in a dream sequence.
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John McGuire in Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor, 1940
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Cloris Leachman hitches a ride the hard way in the opening scene of Aldrich's 1955 Kiss Me Deadly
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Rita Hayworth in Charles Vidor's Gilda, 1946
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Constance Towers as Kelly dons her wig in Sam Fuller's 1964 neo-noir The Naked Kiss
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Kerpow!!' Robert Taylor KOs a hired goon in Rogue Cop, 1954.
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Butter wouldn't melt... Janet Leigh as the demure love-interest, gangster's moll turned virgin in 1954's Rogue Cop
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Robert Taylor's kid brother is shot down in the street in Roy Rowland's 1954 Rogue Cop
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George Raft guns for Robert Taylor in the finale of Rogue Cop, 1954
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I'm having a J. Arthur on my iPhone.
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Jean Simmons is fragile & confused in 1951's The Clouded Yellow
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Newcastle figures large in The Clouded Yellow, 1951
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Jean Simmons begins to remember in The Clouded Yellow, 1951
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The struggle above the docks in the thrilling climax of The Clouded Yellow
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David saves Sophie from a fatal plunge in The Clouded Yellow, 1951
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The murderer falls to his death in front of a freight train at the docks in The Clouded Yellow, 1951
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In the first minute of Roy Rowland's 1954 classic Witness to Murder, Barbara Stanwyck does just that.
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DAN-DAN-DAAN!
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"Open up lady, it's the police." Roy Rowland's Witness to Murder, 1954
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Crazed Nazi & killer, Richter, played by George Sanders, lights up in Roy Rowland's Witness to Murder, 1954
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The warped killer, Richter plunges to his death down a construction shaft in Witness to Murder, 1954
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Chess gaff in Rudolph Mate's 1948 The Dark Past. At the start of every game White's rightmost square MUST be a White square.
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The Dark Past, 1948 wherein our psychopathic villain, William Holden, gets to utter the immortal line "Everybody act natural!" while Lee J. Cobb looks on, naturally disgusted.
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Big Clue: The psychopath in The Dark Past is irresistibly drawn to his hostage's book.
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".... And below this line is what we call the unconscious, or subconscious mind. Like the bottom of an iceberg.." "Say! what is all this screwball stuff...!"
