The Rules of Film Noir

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

00:02:24 But only a little.

00:04:33 You planned the whole thing.

00:06:37 You're right. I'm lying like mad.

00:08:30 punching the lights out of the blackmailer

00:10:35 She's a good guy. I'm glad she's on my side.

00:13:20 The kind of stories that came off on your fingers as you read them.

00:15:48 Don't go to bed feeling comfortable

00:17:50 Unmarried. No visible scars.

00:19:47 You know, and he's just sort of accepting his fate of being the hapless lover.

00:22:20 Film noir grew in the Californian night

00:25:40 It's actually about a sense of what it really means to be human

00:28:08 TITLE MUSIC PLAYS

00:30:39 My face! My face!

00:33:25 Why can't you let them live?

00:35:44 A cheap little B-movie shot in a few days on the RKO back lot.

00:38:37 "Cut them down to size.

00:41:23 The long tracking shots and using

00:43:42 certainly the greatest opening in film noir but one of the greatest openings of all times.

00:46:40 looked innocuous on the page but sounded dead dirty in the playing.

00:48:46 It's a film where their famous screen chemistry really ignites.

00:50:59 # Folks were putting the blame on

00:53:35 she's just really glad that this guy's been knocked off, basically.

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