Film Noir Admirer Gifts

Mysterious stranger wonders who he, himself, is.

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

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

hard-boiled egg...

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

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

"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

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."

Christopher Nolan caricature

'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

Al Pacino

Peter Lorre caricature

Phantom of Casablanca

Uneasy Rider

Diary of a DNA Cop

Noir kitty.

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the street. But today, expect occasional sprinkles."

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

"I'll take it."

"I have a few questions, Miss Haspel, about your fitness to serve as the director of the C.I.A."

"It's a dame!"

Jim and Betty Noir could turn a simple trip to the post office into gripping melodrama.

Humphrey Bogart.

Raymond Chandler, the money-grubbing years.

Detectabull

Charlie Chaplin

'Well, what did you expect?'

"Too film noir?"

It was official. She was desperate.

Robert Mitchum

"Gee—it's just like in the movies!"

A holster of heavies

Marlene Dietrich

"Hey, dump that in the East River where it belongs."