Well, the billionaires triumph again, the story of this day and age. #WorldSeries

you know what i think about a lot? the knbr call of this. it could very well be because i blocked out all memories of this day and most of the 2021 season at large, but i’ve literally never heard it before. would anyone out there happen to have it?

Ohhhh, my Precious…

I’m not sure whether I should make breakfast or open a safe deposit box.

#NoirChecklist for #WomanOnTheRun:
-Murder two minutes in
-Iconic San Francisco locations
-Gravel-voiced cop
-Gabby bartender
-Nightclub scene (in Chinatown)
-Dennis O’Keefe Dennis O’Keefe-ing
-A guy named Smiley
-More trenchcoats than the London Fog Xmas Sale
#TCMParty

#WomanOnTheRun cinematographer Hal Mohr also shot The Jazz Singer, Captain Blood, Destry Rides Again, and other classics, and is the only person to win a write-in Oscar (before a rule change.) He was an early pioneer of deep-focus photography even before Gregg Toland. #TCMParty

#NoirChecklist for #WithoutPity:

-Naive, wrongly accused protagonist
-Worldly-wise prison friend
-Floozies aplenty
-Post-war black market dealings
-Creepy, well-dressed villain
-Quirky talkative bit characters
-Nightclub scene(s)
-His and hers jailbreaks!

#TCMParty #NoirAlley

Wow, #WithoutPity suddenly turned into an Italian version of a Roger Corman women-in-prison picture.
#TCMParty #NoirAlley

Yow, that's a banger of an opening!
#WithoutPity #TCMParty #NoirAlley

“Men and women had forgotten compassion and abandoned tenderness in their desperate struggle for survival.”

Sounds like the Black Friday Sale at Walmart.
#WithoutPity #TCMParty #NoirAlley

This British Museum sequence in #Blackmail is like a festival of Schufftan Process shots! #TCMParty

One Hitchcock trademark not delved into in the #BecomingHitchcockdoc is the minor character– usually a quirky old neighbor or landlady– who talks graphically about the murder, murder in general, or murder methods. #Blackmail likely has one of the first versions. #TCMParty

Paul Kelly's hairline starts somewhere around the Tropic of Capricorn. #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty

Yikes, seems like every citizen in Midvale is packing and just shoots indiscriminately at escaping bank robbers, bystanders be damned. #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty

William Holden's voice seems to have changed from his early roles in the late 30s to his heyday in the 50s, probably from smoking. He almost doesn't sound like the same person. #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty

The ineffably effusive Effie from #TheMalteseFalcon, Lee Patrick. #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty

Cliff seems just a teensy bit bitter...
#InvisibleStripes #TCMParty

Baby William Holden- Drink! #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty

Although it pre-dates the “official” birth of noir in the mid-40s, #TheyDriveByNight checks a lot of boxes on the #NoirChecklist:

-Femme fatale married to older rich guy
-Good girl vs. bad girl
-Honest brothers battling corrupt system
-Innocent guy wrongly on trial #TCMParty

Homebody family man Bogie in #TheyDriveByNight was throwing me off. Now we're back to a more familiar bitter, self-loathing Bogie. #TCMParty

Percentage of George Tobias's classic film roles where he didn't have a vaguely Greek-Russian-Yiddish-Eastern European accent: 4.2%
#TheyDriveByNight #TCMParty