The Rules of Film Noir

00:00:17 Dark, isn't it? You'd better get used to it.

00:02:23 a little light upon them.

00:04:27 I loved you Walter, and I hated him

00:06:26 Something new. It attracts mosquitoes and it repels men.

00:08:17 Why don't you break his head, Jeff?

00:10:13 Bogart plays a struggling screenwriter who might or might not be a murderer.

00:12:42 The batteries in these torches, the celluloid running through the camera.

00:15:18 that's ever been written in the American novel.

00:17:12 Once Hammett's nasty world had made it to the big screen

00:19:15 Like Mitchum, in Out Of The Past.

00:21:22 'The rest of it was a crazy, coked-up dream.

00:24:31 without World War II and an influx, specifically, of German emigres.

00:27:06 but the piano is beginning to get more frenetic

00:29:31 What's your information? Arresting all my friends?

00:31:58 which is why it was a great period for artists, because it opened up all kinds of venues for expression.

00:34:16 but victory didn't banish those anxieties.

00:36:56 and be there put to death in the manner prescribed by law.

00:39:52 You're not going to see any of that or that lovely set or those people.

00:42:26 I'm a schoolboy, teach me.

00:44:58 It's so minimal because you've just got this -

00:47:21 There's a speed limit in this state, Mr Nev, 45 miles an hour.

00:49:29 I like to play them myself.

00:51:37 # Put the blame

00:54:24 That wasn't no miss-fire, that was just to turn you around. I don't want to shoot you in the back.