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Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948)
Aug
3
Mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, middle) and two of his conspirators. DP: John F. Seitz.
A continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4.
“I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.”
– John Triton
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White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933)
Aug
1
“You'll go under like all the others.”
– Judith Denning
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On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
Jul
28
liquor
“You know this city's full of hawks? That's a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.”
– Terry Malloy
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D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949)
Jul
18
A man's hand signs a car rental contract dated July 18. DP: Ernest Laszlo.
“You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me.”
– Frank Bigelow
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David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride, 1967)
Jul
14
L.M. Kit Carson as David Holzman. DP: Michael Wadleigh.
“Truffaut said that in 'Singing in the Rain', Debbie Reynolds jumps over a couch and holds in her skirt as she does it, and this movement gives her away. Now the movement that Sandra just made and I just caught, she gives herself away. Now in each movement, she gives herself a little more away, to me.”
– David Holzman
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Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
Jul
1
steak
A man dissects his steak with knife and fork at a round table with an oilcloth cover. Prominently in the centre of the table is an square cardboard box with air-holes punched in the lid. It's open and houses a small, live rattlesnake. DP: Charles Lang.
“I can handle big news and little news. And if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.”
– Charles Tatum
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Burnt Offerings (Dan Curtis, 1976)
Jul
1
The chauffeur (Anthony James). DP: Jacques R. Marquette.
“The house takes care of itself.”
– Roz Allardyce
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The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)
Jun
24
spaghetti
A man in a bathrobe (Ted de Corsia) lifts undrained, slightly overcooked spaghetti from a white enamel pan onto a plate. The overcookedness may be caused by this movie's horrible horrible AI “restoration”. DP: John Alton.
“I couldn't swallow any more salami.”
– Mingo
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Caged (John Cromwell, 1950)
Jun
20
prison chow
The girls eating their grub. It'd be Marie Allen's (Eleanor Parker) first of many. DP: Carl E. Guthrie.
“What I'd give for a sink full of dirty dish.”
– Millie
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Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
Jun
9
A man in a dark suit has his clenched hand on top of a stack of fancy gilded dinner plates. He's holding a piece of rope, just an ordinary household article. DPs: William V. Skall & Joseph A. Valentine.
“Mr. Cadell got a bad leg in the war for his courage. And you've got your sleeve in the celery, Mr. Phillip.”
– Mrs. Wilson