“The biggest mistake I made before was shooting for peanuts. Five years have taught me one thing: any time you take a chance, you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk, ’cause they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.”
— Sterling Hayden in The Killing (1957)
Join me tomorrow for Day 7 of Noirvember!
Harlow, Crawford and Bennett!
Dorothy Mackaill in Safe in Hell.
Peggy Cummins in Gun Crazy.
Joan Crawford: one of pre-Code and film noir's most awesome divas!
Dangerous Dan Duryea
Norma Shearer: She was made for pre-Code.
The lovely Carole Lombard
Robert Montgomery: Pre-Code Essential.
Lilyan Tashman and Kay Francis: Two awesome dames.
Don't mess with Robert Mitchum.
Stanwyck: Indescribable. Undefinable.
Joan Blondell: Cute as lace pants.
There's nobody like Sterling Hayden.
Lovely Leila Hyams
Warren William: Smooth, suave, and sophisticated.
Marlene Dietrich: Always marvelous
Oozing with talent: Mae Clarke
shadowsandsatin 
A philosopher!
Great quote from a great movie!
I saw this five years ago for the first time at a tribute to Stanley Kubrick at the L.A. County Museum of Art, and thought it was great. An “Asphalt Jungle” in the horse racing realm!
It’s one of my Top 10 favorite noirs. I think it’s absolute genius.
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