Noir Film Nut Gifts

Coen Brothers

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

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

Mystery of the Poets

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!"

Army Leader: 'We have ways of making you Torque.'

'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

Gangster's To-Do List

Phantom of Casablanca

Diary of a DNA Cop

Peter Lorre caricature

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

Al Pacino

Uneasy Rider

'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.

"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."

"It's a dame!"

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

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

"I'll take it."

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

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

Humphrey Bogart.

A holster of heavies

Detectabull

"Too film noir?"

It was official. She was desperate.

'Well, what did you expect?'

Raymond Chandler, the money-grubbing years.