Film Noir Gifts

Rocky Road, Private Eye

'That isn't true Mrs. Jones, I can find my ass with both hands. And if you want me to prove it, it'll be $150.00 a day, plus expenses.'

Gangster's To-Do List

Noir kitty.

The Name of the Film

"Surprise!"

Mobsters

"This could be our big break, Sam! She wants to file a class-action defamation-of-character lawsuit against any studio that ever made a film-noir movie, on behalf of femme fatales everywhere!"

Cheesedip City

'So, Mr. Vinelli, where do you see yourself in 5 to 20?'

'Really?? Are you sure you didn't say St. Valentine's Day masquerade?'

White lies com to the Film Noir.

'Well, what did you expect?'

Raymond Chandler, the money-grubbing years.

"Remember - this meeting never happened, we never met, and you never wore that tie with that jacket."

3d printer

"It'll never work, Marcy - we come from two different worlds and yours doesn't have chairs."

"It's pretty simple, Jimmy. We get you some ice cream and then we throw you off the Verrazano. You got a problem with that?"

"I never leave a witness who might describe me to police as being short."

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

hard-boiled egg...

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

"Ask the gumshoe. He'll tell ya the saucer was empty when I got there. Go on, gimme a purr detector test. I got all night."

'I don't care how you do it...just make it look like an accident.'

"Damn it—I told them I was too well known for undercover work!"

Cosa Nostradamus: "Listen, you mook. I predict if you don't pay the vig to the Don by tonight you'll be at the bottom of the Hudson by morning."

'Business was slow, slower than a fat tortoise with a limp. The phone hadn't rung for so long I thought it must be out of order. The new competition was good, very good. Who was this 'Google' guy?'

Robert Mitchum

Uneasy Rider

Al Pacino

Diary of a DNA Cop

Phantom of Casablanca

Peter Lorre caricature

"See you there at seven. And the dress code is business noir."

"Who, Big Sal? Sure, we were in cahoots years ago, but we fell out of cahoots."