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Are the Femmes Fatale? - Part 2 Who's really fatale in this joint? And who knows? Who's got the dark knowledge? Some high up, well-fed,... Read more →
They Write By Night, Episode 9
Murder Your Darlings Ya don't have to knock too many people off in poetry. Truer words have rarely been spoken -- at least by me. Lately. But what... Read more →
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They Write By Night, Episode 8
Are the Femmes Fatale? Clips from Devil in a Blue Dress and Chinatown come on the screen -- I re-think the "femme fatale." That's right, I can... Read more →
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They Write By Night, Episode 7
Money Can’t Buy. . . What's it all about, Alfie? Oh, wrong genre. What's it all about, Walter Neff? You tell me. "You want to know who killed... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 6
Noir Cool Noir Cool meets pre-Noir Cool, so pre- it's Elizabethan. Philip Marlowe meets Hamlet. Lummis' men. And nothing stood between her and her... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 5
Noir Immersion For the most forthright Noir aficionados only (if you're not among the most forthright, stay home) -- the whole shebang, the whole... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 4
Threatened Women Debby Marsh in The Big Heat, remember her? How about Francine Hughes? No? O.K., so the first, she was just a character in a movie... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 3
Here’s how this episode of my podcast, “They Write by Night,” (see video below) began: I needed to start with fire. I looked all over my house... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 2
Mood Sultry The scholars like to say film noir's imbued with a sense of menace and dread. Yeah, yeah, we know—sure. But not always. Sometimes... Read more →
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They Write by Night
A Man, a Woman, a Gun . . . and a Bridge You are a fan of film noir, those cheaply made but strikingly photographed black and white crime movies... Read more →
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