Noir Film Lover Gifts

"No more last requests."

It was official. She was desperate.

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

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

The Philip Marlow family

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

Mystery of the Poets

"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!"

'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

Peter Lorre caricature

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

Uneasy Rider

Diary of a DNA Cop

Noir kitty.

'Don Francesco, scusi... But while we were burying Luigi, some joggers ran into us... So we had to bury five corpses altogether...'

"I'll take it."

"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."

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

"It's a dame!"

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

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

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

'This looks like the work of a surreal killer.'

"Damn it, Flopsy, you've cost me another bust."

Humphrey Bogart.

Detectabull

Robert Mitchum

"Too film noir?"

The shadow