Film Noir Enthusiast Prints

'I've been a criminal all my life, and I've never been aided or abetted!'

'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?'

"The job was no picnic. The nights were cold and the kid was restless. All I could do was dream that one day I'd spend my nights watching the waves in Cabo."

Tramp to businessman on ledge: "Go ahead, jump, make my day"

"Yes! This is 'Understanding Film Noir', and, yes ! I am Dr. Behan. Now will you please shut the door!"

Mafia Passport Photo

Robert Mitchum

"You talkin' to me?"

"I'm packing heat—and my dental records, just in case."

Diary of a DNA Cop

"Mobster culture"

"If we have unlimited minutes on the weekend, why do we make the ransom call on a Tuesday?"

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

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

hard-boiled egg...

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

The Philip Marlow family

"We need rain."

'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."

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

Gangster's To-Do List

Peter Lorre caricature

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

Uneasy Rider

Phantom of Casablanca

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

Al Pacino

'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.'

Noir kitty.

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

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

"It's a dame!"

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