>Hardboiled: Wild Bill Hickock and an ex-sheriff from
a more
>law-abiding place have just rolled into the mean
streets, which are
>full of prostitutes, thugs, thieves and killers with
a tendency to
>chop up their victims, especially women and children,
into little
>pieces and blame it on the Indians.
>
>Noir: could easily revive the argument. NOT shot in
black and white,
>obviously, nor even necessarily at night, though much
of it does take
>place in a saloon with shadows, and girls being
beaten in the rooms
>upstairs and tucking small revolvers down their
cleavage, and their
>customers falling headfirst over the bannisters. But
many of the
>outdoor scenes appear to have been shot in some
distant sun-drenched
>desert (I'm guessing the outskirts of Palm Springs?).
But it IS
>noir, damnit.
>
>You are warned!
No, nobody knew anything, Except maybe the Jack of
Hearts...
So far, it sounds like the cinematic equivalent of a LILY,
ROSEMARY & THE JACK OF HEARTS, with a little BROWNSVILLE
GIRL tossed.
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