In a Lonely Place
“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” – Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
Tag: film noir
Night and the City
“You could have been anything. Anything. You had brains… ambition. You worked harder than any 10 men. But the wrong things. Always the wrong things…” – Gene Tierney as Mary Bristol
The Asphalt Jungle
“One way or another, we all work for our vice.” – Sam Jaffe as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
Ministry of Fear
Thrilling Drama of the Invisible Network of Terror – Taken from an original poster advertising the film.
The Big Sleep
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners, I don’t like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.” – Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe
Mildred Pierce
“You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can’t, because you’ll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing.” – Ann Blyth as Veda Pierce
Double Indemnity
“It’s just like the first time I came here, isn’t it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.” – Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff
The Maltese Falcon
“I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.” – Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade
