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That last film noir thread was so much fun, let’s do another! This time, just links to scenes that you like. A lot of the best ones are not available online, or it could just be that my google-fu is very weak. I’ll start (and again, I’ll interpret film noir very loosely):

Casablanca (gin joints).

To have and have not (put your lips together)

Big Sleep (librarian lets her hair down)

Miller’s Crossing (“raised hell”)

Third Man (ending).

Last Seduction (just a lot of scenes of Linda Fiorentino smoking)

Preferably, scenes involving a man and a woman (unless there’s good gay film noir I don’t know about), drinks, cigarettes, and killer lines delivered in a low voice. That’s what’s missing in today’s cinema. Who wants to watch Josh Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel wank about life over a Boniver sound track? Not me.

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Nobody ever smoked cigarettes like Paul Henreid and Bette Davis in “Now Voyager.” I’m off to look for a clip.

  2. 2.

    ThresherK

    Casablanca is almost nothing but “scenes”. Of course, that goes right into the mogul’s saying “A successful movie has four good scenes and no bad ones”. (No cite, too lazy to search.)

    Spousal Unit ThresherK is a big fan of a very famous Hollywood classic, and goes to its conventions regularly. One of the most fun games they have is to have teams “beat the clock” in arranging stills, or quotes, in proper running order.

    When someone calls a movie “durable”, I try to imagine a crowd playing that game with it, and assess accordingly.

    (Edited.)

  3. 3.

    Eric

    I saw the title and thought this post was about david gregory.

    Every scene in casablanca is great. That is why it us my favorite movie ever. There is no second place. Though it would be Seven Samurai if i had to choose.

  5. 5.

    Eric

    The scene when we first see harry lime in the third man

    James mason running scared in Odd man out. Cant find

  6. 6.

    bago

    Has anybody else noticed that John Galt is just an excessively loquacious Eric Cartman? “Screw you guys, I’m going home”.

    Seriously, if there is a scheme to profit upon the suffering of others, Eric Cartman is there.

  8. 8.

    joeyess

    Men, women, smoking and drinking?

    The obvious answer is: Who’s Afraid of Virgina Wolff?”.

  11. 11.

    TBogg

    For your gay noir, I submit Bound and I didn’t link to any of the lesbian sex scenes because it is Sunday and I am all Jesus-y like that.

    Also, Bound is a terrific film.

  13. 13.

    Valdivia

    That scene from To Have is my all time favorite. Casablanca, all of it, makes me cry.

    The scene from Double Indemnity where all you see is her legs (Barbara Stanwick) is pretty classic too. As well as the dance with one glove from Gilda.

  15. 15.

    policomic

    Double Indemnity: “How fast was I going…,” “I wonder if you wonder,” and “murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle”:

  17. 17.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    Who wants to watch Josh Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel wank about life over a Boniver sound track?

    (raises hand)

    We watched the R. Fiennes Coriolanus last night and it’s fantastic. I really don’t like war movies at all but the combination of story, acting and outstanding cinematography made this brilliant.

  18. 18.

    ThresherK

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yes, one of those from the Great Year.

    I wasn’t aware how much a fan until I saw the big collection on the first visit to the apartment. (Not enough to scare me off, though!)

  20. 20.

    Riilism

    Not low voiced, but

    My sister, my daughter, my sister, my daughter…

    Also qualifies as gay noir…

  22. 22.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    Does Happyness count? (NOT happiness)

    It’s not strictly film noir period, but I think it contains the essential elements.

    Disclaimer: I’m not an film buff, academically speaking.

    Also, I’m biased, I like many of the actors in that film, especially Camryn Manheim

  23. 23.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @joeyess:

    And lest we forget the off-beat indy collection of vignettes: Coffee and Cigarettes.

    Iggy, Meg and Jack and the Tesla coil. An oddball wonder.

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    unless there’s good gay film noir I don’t know about

    I thought the subtext of all good noir was subverted homoeroticism?

  29. 29.

    Persia

    JGL reminds me of Brick, which is basically a modern noir. Weird little movie but well worth watching.

  31. 31.

    Schlemizel

    Mary Astor: I haven’t lived a good life. I’ve been bad, worse than you could know.
    Humphrey Bogart: You know, that’s good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we’d never get anywhere.

    Humphrey Bogart: Haven’t you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else?
    Mary Astor: What else is there I can buy you with?

    Humphrey Bogart: I hope they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I’m gonna send you over. The chances are you’ll get off with life. That means if you’re a good girl, you’ll be out in 20 years. I’ll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I’ll always remember you.

  32. 32.

    MikeJ

    unless there’s good gay film noir I don’t know about

    in The Maltese Falcon Spade says, “Keep that gunsel away from me while you’re making up your mind. I’ll kill him.” Hammett used the word gunsel knowing his editor wouldn’t know the slang and assume it meant a guy with a gun.

  33. 33.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): Arg.. I got my wires crossed. The movie I meant is Happiness, not Happyness. The link is correct. My spellings were not.

    I’m still trying to strike that intentionally misspelled doppelganger from my head. Screw that movie. I’ll never watch it, if nothing else because it stole the title of a movie I liked very much.

    ETA: I’m having trouble finding vid links to bits I like. I’m guessing the movie wasn’t incredibly popular.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @Riilism:

    One of the fun film-geeky things about Chinatown is that when you’ve seen enough noir, you realize that the reason things go so wrong and end so tragically is that Jake has made a terrible mistake — he thinks that Evelyn is the femme fatale when she’s actually the innocent victim. By the time he realizes it (in that scene), it’s too late. The whole scheme Jake’s set up using that assumption plays out and, well …

  36. 36.

    raven

    Touch of Evil

    “Do ju know what it eezeee the reeefers

    Do ju know what it is the mainliners. . . ”

    “You better lay of the candybars. . .”

  37. 37.

    Frants

    Don’t overlook 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success! Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster firing off dialogue so sharp it cuts to the bone. Feels like a noir about dirty, violent criminals, but instead of criminals, it’s a publicist and a gossip columnist in NYC. Fantastic.

  41. 41.

    WereBear

    @MikeJ: And of course there is, in the same film, Joel Cairo, played by Peter Lorre in a way that removes any doubt.

    The stuff that dreams are made of.

    And

    You’ll get slapped and like it.

    And for sheer sadness, there’s nothing like Ida Lupino in High Sierra. Pal played by Humphrey Bogart’s own dog.

  42. 42.

    Ann Rynd

    The Fountainhead. Patricia Neal as Dominique Francon is asked, after having fucked (been raped by) Howard Ruark (Gary Cooper) to reccomend an architect for her father ‘s new building.
    “I don’t know any good architects,” she honks smokily through her nostrils. In insane Randian fashion she doesn’t want him to design buildings for swine like her father. Because he is too pure a genius.
    An obscure scene from a shitty movie but I adore Neal so much, the voice, the hooded eyes, I cannot forget her.

  43. 43.

    smintheus

    Marie Windsor and Charles McGraw in Narrow Margin.

    Sister, I’ve known some pretty hard cases in my time. You make ’em all look like putty. You’re not talking about a sack of gumdrops that’s gonna be smashed, you’re talking about a dame’s life!

  44. 44.

    Doggie D

    I think film noir’s best moment evar was when Spike Lee put the underwear over his head and danced on the bed in his groundbreaking movie ‘She’s Got to Have It’. I just love Spike’s little Brooklyn hat.

  45. 45.

    Trooptrap Tripetrope

    I think the closest one can get to gay in film noir might be Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep. There’s one scene in which Philip Marlowe, pretending to be a gay book collector, says: “Would you happen to have a Ben-Hur, 1860?” Bogart’s delivery is priceless.

  46. 46.

    ? Martin

    Speak for yourself. I’ll gladly spend 2 hours watching Zooey sort her recycling, fishing, mowing the lawn, you name it. Less Josh is welcome though.

  50. 50.

    mellowjohn

    there’s a lesser bogart film called “dead reckoning” that’s just filled with great lines.

  53. 53.

    Eric

    Can i say that bogart is an underappreciated genius. Is it any wonder that half the film noir is a bogie line delivered dripping with snark. There is an interested disintetest in his characters that drives his delivery

  55. 55.

    jake the snake

    As far as slap-slap-kiss-kiss, how about Richard Widmark slugging Jean Peters in “Pickup On South Street, and later,
    Peters cold-cocking Widmark with a beer bottle.
    Some critic claimed Pickup was Sam Fuller’s idea of a romantic comedy, and I’m not sure they were wrong.

    If may have the best “meet cute” of all time, when Widmark lifts Peters’ wallet on the subway.

  57. 57.

    Hungry Joe

    Almost every scene in Robert Altman’s “Thieves Like Us.” Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen. From the terrific novel (1937) by Richard Anderson.

  58. 58.

    Ann Rynd

    Another. (Pushing it for noir) The Heiress. The last scene where de Haviland finishes her needlepoint calmly while Montgomery Clift bangs on her door. She flips over the sewing frame, takes her sissors and snips the thread viciously, takes her lamp and goes upstairs, a frighteningly cruel deadness in her face. A scene which won her an Oscar.

  59. 59.

    LanceThruster

    [last lines]
    Deckard: [narrating] Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachael was special. No termination date. I didn’t know how long we had together… Who does? ~ Blade Runner

  60. 60.

    LanceThruster

    @Wag:

    Favorite scene as well, but chose the other cuz the assigment said it was supposed to have broads and/or smoking/drinking in it.

    ETA: Just read Rutger Hauer adlibbed the “tears in the rain” part. Brilliant.

  61. 61.

    quannlace

    Hard to beat the first ‘The Thin Man.’ (1934)

    Nora Charles: Pretty girl.
    Nick Charles: Yes. She’s a very nice type.
    Nora Charles: You got types?
    Nick Charles: Only you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
    ***********
    Reporter: Say listen, is he working on a case?
    Nora Charles: Yes, he is.
    Reporter: What case?
    Nora Charles: A case of scotch. Pitch in and help him.
    ************
    I heard they’re doing a remake with Johnny Depp? Jesus, isn’t it enough that he ruined ‘Dark Shadows?’

  62. 62.

    ThresherK

    (Deleted because I can’t find the quotes and don’t trust my memory. But I do remember Hank Quinlan “only framed guilty people”.

  63. 63.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Pulp Fiction, the scene with John Travolta and Uma Thurmond, at Jack Rabbit/Slims, a cool scene, also as added bonus I liked the scene where Travolta goes to the dealer’s house after Mia Od’s on John’s heroin.

  64. 64.

    Erik

    Great opening scene from Blast of Silence (1961) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6PbJbaDAyk

    Sorry for the formatting, it was the only version of the quote I could find.

    [Man Narrating] Remembering, out of the black silence…
    you were born in pain. – [Woman Gasps]
    [Narrator] Easy. Easy does it, little mother.
    – We’ve never lost a father. – [Woman Breathing Heavily]
    [Narrator] Yourjob is done, little mother. – [Spanks]
    [Baby Cries]
    [Narrator] You were born with hate and anger built in.
    Took a slap on the backside to blast out the scream…
    and then you knew you were alive.
    Eight pounds, five ounces.
    Baby boy Frankie Bono.
    Father doing well.
    [Train Horn Honks]
    Later you learned to hold back the scream…
    and let out the hate and anger another way.
    You come into Manhattan by dark, whatever time of day it is…
    through tunnels, like sewers hidden under the city.
    But you don’t mind that. It’s always that way, whatever city it is.
    You’re alone. But you don’t mind that.
    You’re a loner. That’s the way it should be.
    You’ve always been alone.
    By now it’s your trademark.
    You like it that way.
    [Choir] #Silent night #
    [Narrator] The railroad company makes sure you don’t forget you’re coming to town on Christmas.
    It gives you the creeps.
    But that’s all right. Everyone on the goodwill kick, maybe they’ll leave you alone.
    You hate cities, especially at Christmas.

  66. 66.

    Erik

    The 30 minute heist scene from Jules Dassin’s Rififi from which all other heist scenes have stolen. Also, for 30 minutes there’s no dialogue and unless it was pointed out to you (as I’m doing now) you would never notice. Great stuff, and his other films Thieves Highway, Naked City, and Brute Force aren’t too shabby either. Oh, he was also blacklisted after the HUAC hearings.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9bciTbt6l8

  67. 67.

    Tehanu

    L.A. Confidential:

    Lynn Bracken: You’re the first man in five years who didn’t tell me I look like Veronica Lake inside of a minute.
    Bud White: You look better than Veronica Lake.

  70. 70.

    Revanch

    Who wants to watch Josh Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel wank about life over a Boniver sound track?

    HAH! I effing hated 500 Days of Summer too. Just a terrible piece of shit that, for unknown reasons, is a 7.9 on IMDB.

    I’m pretty convinced that much of modern filmmaking (and fiction writing) largely consists of coming up with a catchy title and then backwardly contriving a (shit) story from that point, all while mining previously well-explored themes and ideas. The Hunger Games, 50 Shades of Grey, 50 Days of Summer, etc etc.

    And it’s not just women-focused media, because The Dark Knight Rises was almost completely shit as well, in ways too numerous to state here.

    John’s previous comment on The Hunger Games was ridiculously generous for a movie that future generations are sure to regard as an embarrassing and inexplicable relic of their parents’ fucked up lack of taste.

  71. 71.

    TooManyJens

    @Revanch: Knowing where 50 Shades of Grey came from, I can assure you that wasn’t its origin. It used to be Twilight fanfic called “Masters of the Universe” before whats-her-name filed the serial numbers off.

  72. 72.

    Stephen1947

    TBogg beat me to it – Bound is possibly the best film with dyke protagonists ever, and for sure the best film noir in that category.

  74. 74.

    Hunter Gathers

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” – Jessica Rabbit

  77. 77.

    Tommy D

    The tea service scene in “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” No dialog, mostly reaction shots.

  78. 78.

    Tom Cahill

    Apocolypse Now The Helicopter Attack.
    Last of the Mohicans from where Duncan is burned through where Wes Studi os killed. From Here to Eternity the Beach Scene. Star Wars The suns setting scene. CE3K when the Mothershop comes. The Searchers the scene where Ethan knows what is going to happen to his family and realizes he can do nothing about it. Also the final scene. The Right Sstuff (Chuck Yeager in the F-104 while the soundtrack features Clair De Lune, Captains Courageous (Spencer Tracy dying), The Opening shot in a Touch of Evil.

  79. 79.

    trollhattan

    @bago:
    Thanks for today’s first spit-take.

    I would pay to watch the next AS installment if John Galt had Cartman’s voice.

    “Maaaaah! [beep]ing moochers ate my cheezy poofs!”

  80. 80.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    How on earth did I miss a movie full of Linda Fiorentino smoking and drinking? I gotta go find “Last Seduction” now.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Valdivia:

    I absolutely love that movie. See, separated at birth you and I :)

    Yes, as amply demonstrated by this:

    Casablanca, all of it, makes me cry.

    Me too me too me too, but especially La Marseillaise scene. But, yeah, the whole thing.

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Has anybody mentioned Rebecca yet? I would like to put forward just about every scene with the great Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers.

  85. 85.

    Villago Delenda Est

    You know that scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” where they beat the shit out of old man Potter?

    That’s my favorite scene.

    Oh, wait. That was an SNL skit.

    Can we update it and beat the shit out of Paul Ryan?

  90. 90.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I know it’s not romantic or inspiring, but my favorite scene in Casablanca is the “I’m shocked, shocked!” scene.

  95. 95.

    quannlace

    With a sigh of relief, I can report that Johnny Depp’s remake of The Thin Man is in production limbo right now, may it ever be so.

    Thank the FSM !

  97. 97.

    Jo

    I don’t think anyone would classify it as film noir, since it’s too early (1930), but Marlene Dietrich’s cross-dressing scene in Morocco is very queer, and it does include some sexy cigarette smoking.

  98. 98.

    Valdivia

    @TooManyJens:

    I haven’t read it but I can imagine! It delights me that this book proves that Twilight was a book for married women pining for romance. Now they get to read it again only with more secsy time and all that the s&m scene entails.

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Ah the Marseillese scene also, too. And Rebecca. Of course!

  100. 100.

    Sawgrass Stan

    It’s raining like hell down here, thanks to Isaac. It’s a great afternoon for film noir.
    Great lines from “Out of The Past” w/ Janet Greer and Robert Mitchum:
    JG: I never though about anything but how much I hated him, but I didn’t take anything, Jim. Don’t you believe me?”
    RM: “Baby, I don’t care..,” (samooooch…)

  105. 105.

    cbear

    Treasure of the Sierra Madre which could be retitled as Treasure of the Goopers in Tampa:

    Howard/Reince Preibus: Hey you fellas, how ’bout some beans? You want some beans? Goin’ through some mighty rough country tomorrow, you’d better have some beans.
    ___________________________________________________

    Fred C. Dobbs: Say, mister. Will you stake a fellow American to a meal?

    American/Mitt Romney in Tampico in white suit: Such impudence never came my way. Early this afternoon I gave you money… while I was having my shoes polished I gave you MORE money… now you put the bite on me again. Do me a favor, will ya? Go occasionally to somebody else – it’s beginning to get tiresome.

    Fred C. Dobbs: Ah, excuse me, mister, I never knowed it was you. I never looked at your face – I just looked at your hands and the money you gave me. Beg pardon, mister, I promise I’ll never put the bite on you again.

    American/Mitt Romney in Tampico in white suit: [gives him a peso] This is the very last you get from me. Just to make sure you don’t forget your promise, here’s another peso.
    [puts another peso in Dobbs’ hand]

    Fred C. Dobbs: Thanks, mister. Thanks.

    American/Mitt Romney in Tampico in white suit: But from now on, you’ll have to make your way through life without my assistance.
    ___________________________________________________

    Dobbs: Nobody puts one over on Fred C. Dobbs.
    ___________________________________________________

    Gold Hatewt Gingrich/N: Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges.
    ____________________________________________________

    Howard/Lindsey Graham: If I were you boys, I wouldn’t talk or even think about women. T’aint good for your health.
    ____________________________________________________

    Dobbs: You two guys musta been born in a revival meeting.
    _____________________________________________________

    Dobbs: Conscience. What a thing. If you believe you got a conscience it’ll pester you to death. But if you don’t believe you got one, what could it do t’ya? Makes me sick, all this talking and fussing about nonsense.
    ______________________________________________________

    Fred C. Dobbs: Any more lip out of you and I’ll haul off and let you have it. If you know what’s good for you, you won’t monkey around with Fred C. Dobbs.

  110. 110.

    cbear

    @Sawgrass Stan: I dunno, but in some scenes he could be Rick Santorum:

    (discussing Fred Thompson)
    Bob Curtin: Remember what you said back in Tampico about having to carry that old man on our backs?

    Fred C. Dobbs: That was when I took him for an ordinary human being, not part goat.
    ____________________________________________________

    And Rush Limbaugh could definitely play Howard:

    (speaking to Mitt and Ryan)

    Howard: Without me, you two would die here, more miserable than rats.

  111. 111.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    I’ve seen all the Thin Man films and liked them. Mostly because Myrna Loy was my type. Yowza!
    But they’re not The Gospels. I’m fine with remakes of them, even merely adequate ones. The originals were good fun, not high art. If Johnny Depp’s fans get to have that fun again 60+ years later that’s OK.

  112. 112.

    trollhattan

    O/T Is Kaplan’s editors learnin’?

    Current WaPo website front page headline:

    Since banning pigs that feed on garage, Cairo’s streets have filled with trash

    Garage-eating pigs, how the f*ck do they work?

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack

    Has no one here seen Romeo Is Bleeding? A great, true noir with Gary Oldman and Lena Olin.

    Best line: “With . . . or without?” Can’t find a clip of that–or any decent clips, really–so here’s the trailer.

  115. 115.

    Livy

    So it looks like Romney and the Super PACs are going to massively outspend Obama during the rest of the election, perhaps on the order of 100s of millions of dollars.

    Thoughts?

  117. 117.

    Jim Faith

    The Usual Suspects – Verbal Kent leaves the police station and his limp turns into a normal gait. He gets in the Jag with Kobayashi and drives off – never to be heard from again

  118. 118.

    kelly

    Romeo is Bleeding; Lena Olin with her legs wrapped around Gary Oldman’s neck in the car!

  122. 122.

    Valdivia

    @WaterGirl:

    since I haven’t read the book I have no idea. The reviews and comments I have seen do seem to acknowledge that there is an s&m element in the narrative, but I imagine it is nothing like The Story of O, or other classics of the genre. Probably soft pedaled enough that no one actually calls it that in the book?

  124. 124.

    TooManyJens

    @WaterGirl: As far as I’m aware, people do know it. Like Valdivia said, they probably don’t call it that, but the whole deal with Edward Christian becoming Bella’s Ana’s master is pretty widely known.

  129. 129.

    MikeJ

    I’ll add another topic. Edroso announced his nuptialization on his blog today. IN the comments I suggested that the regular wedding music be replaced with Reverb Motherfuckers’ “Love Juice (in all 3 holes)”.

    Which made me wonder if anyone had compiled a list of songs that are very direct requests for affection. Like “Rabbit” by the Lemonheads (“I’d like to stick my carrot into you” is a great line.)

    Perhaps “All I Wanna do is Fuck Your Hair” by the Judybats.

  131. 131.

    WaterGirl

    @TooManyJens: Huh. I will have to check with my niece who first mentioned the book to me. I didn’t see twilight, and I just thought the book was some recent soft porn. Clearly I don’t get out enough!

  132. 132.

    Mike in NC

    @trollhattan:

    Since banning pigs that feed on garage, Cairo’s streets have filled with trash

    Headline in our local Sunday paper: “GOP Evolving with Romney”. Begs the question: can people who don’t believe in evolution actually evolve?

  133. 133.

    WereBear

    And a hearty recommend is the Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell classic, His Kind of Woman. Raymond Burr as the gangster, Vincent Price as the comic foil, John Farrow directed and one of the most harrowing impending mayhem scenes put to film in that era.

    Great dialogue:

    Mitchum: I’m too young to die. How about you?
    Price: Too well-known.

    Price: Well, what did you think of the picture?
    Russell: Oh, it was fine. It was just a little long – about an hour and a half.

    Russell: They tell me you killed Ferraro. How did it feel?
    Mitchum: He didn’t say.

  136. 136.

    TooManyJens

    @WaterGirl: The thing is, when it was Twilight fic, it was an AU (alternate universe) story, where the author takes the characters and puts them in a different situation. So if you then also change the character names, there isn’t necessarily much to connect it back to Twilight — I gather that Edward and Bella are not such strongly defined characters that you can tell who they are even with names changed and in an alternate universe where they have careers in business. So it’s not surprising you didn’t see Twilight in it.

    I feel ridiculous knowing this — I was never even in Twilight fandom! But word gets around. :)

  140. 140.

    TooManyJens

    @quannlace: My favorite quote from The Thin Man, when the police detective is searching in Nick and Nora’s bedroom and finds Nick’s gun:

    Detective: Ever heard of the Solomon Act?
    Nora: Oh it’s all right, officer, we’re married.

    And the look Nick gives her, sort of a cross between “I can’t believe you said that” and “This is why I love you.”

    Speaking (broadly) of gay noir and Thin Man remakes, the Donald Strachey series of mysteries has been billed as a “gay Nick and Nora.” I wouldn’t go that far, but they’re decent, and Donald and Timmy are totally charming.

  144. 144.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    My wife & her fam are at Batman at the moment. I actively decided to skip that because of the violence. It just disturbs me too much and I can’t enjoy the movie. I’ll skip the sitting in the dark staring at the wall in silence and meet them after for dinner.

  148. 148.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @WaterGirl: What absolutely floored me at Target yesterday was seeing “The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty” and “Beauty’s Punishment” being sold next to Fifty Shades of Gray.

  149. 149.

    Cermet

    The best line in Casablanca is when Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) ask’s someone who the ‘boy’ is at the piano (in reference to Sam (Dooley Wilson a very adult black man!)Wow – that just was over the top stupid for the writers – an adult black man can’t be called ”gentleman or man’ by a white woman!

  153. 153.

    Patricia Kayden

    “Gaslight” starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton – 1944 version. The part where she figures out what her husband is up to is pretty cool. You can find a few clips on Youtube.

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    steve

    About that scene from The Big Sleep: first of all, that’s a bookstore, not a library. Second, that scene is utterly ludicrous. In the novel, Marlowe simply goes into the bookstore, asks his question, gets an answer, and leaves. The only women who throw themselves at Chandler’s Marlowe are drunks, and Marlowe has far too much dignity and self-respect to indulge them. This version of The Big Sleep turns Marlowe into a hopeless horndog — sort of a film noir version of James T. Kirk. And the idea that this intelligent, articulate bookstore owner would CLOSE HER SHOP in order to screw a random customer is idiotic.

  156. 156.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Who wants to watch Josh Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel wank about life over a Boniver sound track? Not me.

    the best sentence I’ve read in a while, and hear hear. Gonna skim through the thread and look for some foreign noir.

  159. 159.

    Rich2506

    The Big Sleep scene reminds me of a practical, brunette Scotswoman I worked with named Lonnie. She was usually accompanied by a silly blonde friend whose name I don’t recall. I was moderately attracted to Lonnie, but on the last day we worked together, she ditched her usual frilly, feminine outfits and wore a pantsuit instead. I thought “Oh, Lonnie! You’re a babe!”
    *Sigh,* we never saw each other after that.

  160. 160.

    Vikram

    Out of the Past…just one of the best noirs evah!
    Taxi driver to Jeff Bailey ( played by Robert Mitchum, about the woman the driver was supposed to tail) –
    “Jeff, I lost her.”
    RM – “She’s worth losing..”

  161. 161.

    phoebes-in-santa fe

    Okay, maybe it’s not film noir, but it’s a conversation from one of the funniest movies ever – “A New Leaf”. All parts of the conversation are said in complete deadpan.

    Said by rich woman Gloria Cunliffe at a luncheon while introducing the Walter Matthau character to a table of strangers:
    “I’d like you to meet Dr and Mrs Daryl Hitler”.
    Asked by Matthau:”Excuse me, you’re not by any chance related to the Boston Hitlers? ”
    Reply by Dr Hitler:
    “No, we’re from Glen Cove”.

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    Tom The First

    This scene from Force of Evil has alway been one of my favorites. Scorsese is a big fan and you can see how this may have inspired his “Joe Pesci facing the camera and firing a gun” shot from Goodfellas.

  165. 165.

    Groucho48

    Another Thin Man quote…

    “Marion: I don’t like crooks. And if I did like ’em, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool pigeons. And if I did like crooks that are stool pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you. ”

    Cape Fear, the Robert Mitchum character…

    “Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking. ”

    Another lesbian noirish type film, maybe not quite as good a movie, but, just as hot was Wild Side, with Anne Heche and Joan Chen. The Director’s Cut is by far the better version. Hard to find, though.

    “You always said you’d take a bullet for me. Here, take three. “

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    Isaac

    My wife and I have been on a huge classic noir kick. It turns out, there’s a lot of lesser-known gems reading available on netflix instant. So that plus the occasional rental really does us some good. For my suggested scene, I’m going to have to go with the nightclub scene from “odds against tomorrow,” which features two songs written by Harry Belafonte, who starred in and produced the film. One song has him on vocals, the other has ex-vaudeville star Mae Barnes, who introduced America to the Charleston:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFd3u8mCb_U

    Odds Against Tomorrow is wonderful. I highly recommend it.

  167. 167.

    Ed Drone

    Kiss of Death (1947) — Tommy Udo pushes that “lying old woman” down the stairs. Richard Widmark at his best.

    Ed

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