@ladykdesigns.bsky.socialCathcart: "Tell him you need two hundred dollars to leave town."
Stauffer: "I need two yards, powder money."
This slang pulled off the street to help hide what is happening from anyone listening is one of my favorite things about #filmnoir!
@ladykdesigns.bsky.social"My job was done when I found your husband.
It is your job to keep him."
@vanstanwyck.bsky.socialSo Jardine was indeed on the level about not having employed White Suit to tail Galt. The real plot is Cathcart's to drive Galt to murder.
#TheDarkCorner #TheNoirCollective
@vanstanwyck.bsky.social"When I couldn't buy it I became obsessed with the idea of owning it."
"So like you, Hardy."
@vanstanwyck.bsky.socialThe portrait is locked in a cage behind a massive bank vault door, which is exactly how Mari feels. When Hardy makes the connection explicit, she wants her jailbreak to happen that very night.
@celluloidsoul.bsky.socialThe movie is like a crosshatched sketch! #TheDarkCorner #TheNoirCollective
@celluloidsoul.bsky.socialSo THAT'S the workaround! (scribbling notes) #TheDarkCorner #TheNoirCollective
@celluloidsoul.bsky.socialUh-oh, don't go to a vault in a noir!
#TheDarkCorner #TheNoirCollective
@vanstanwyck.bsky.socialOften it's a Procrustes situation where they don't fit exactly into some box, but I'll never understand why their boxes were too small to include people like Lucy and Cathy who were both gorgeous and talented.
#TheDarkCorner #TheNoirCollective
@ctmillion.bsky.social"Why, for six bits you'd hang your mother on a meat hook!"
Yow, there are some great noir lines in #TheDarkCorner !
#TheNoirCollective
@celluloidsoul.bsky.socialI meant it in a good way! I think he's cuuuuute! #TheDarkCorner #TheNoirCollective