Monthly Archives: November 2014
Movie Quote of the Day – Southside 1-1000, 1950 (dir. Boris Ingster)
Riggs: You’re pretty sure of yourself, aren’t you Deane?
Deane: As sure as death.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Second Woman, 1950 (dir. James V. Kern)
Jeff Cohalan: Ellen, you’d better go now. You’re not safe with me. Do you understand?
Ellen Foster: Suppose I don’t want to be safe?
Movie Quote of the Day – Framed, 1947 (dir. Richard Wallace)
Paula: You’re afraid.
Mike: Of what?
Paula: Me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Among the Living, 1941 (dir. Stuart Heisler)
Millie Pickens: Brother! Say, if I had a wad of folding dough like that, I’d go right out and buy an outfit that would knock this neighborhood cockeyed!
Movie Quote of the Day – Behind Locked Doors, 1948 (dir. Budd Boetticher)
Dr. Porter: Larson! Stop that!
Larson: I was just giving the Champ a workout.
Dr. Porter: I told you a dozen times not to abuse the patients!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Dark Corner, 1946 (dir. Henry Hathaway)
Bradford Galt: Listen, if you don’t want to lose that stardust look in your eyes, get going while the door’s still open. If you stick around here, you’ll get grafters, shysters, two-bit thugs and maybe worse, maybe me.
Female Filmmaker Friday: The Hitch-Hiker, 1953 (dir. Ida Lupino)
In honor of Noirvember, this week instead of writing about a film directed by a woman, I’m going to point you to a public domain film noir by Ida Lupino from 1953 called The Hitch-Hiker. It’s one of the best films from the era/genre and you can watch it right now:
Movie Quote of the Day – This Gun for Hire,1942 (dir. Frank Tuttle)
Ellen Graham: I hope your friend owes you something.
Philip Raven: I owe him.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Red House, 1947 (dir. Delmer Daves)
Nath Storm: Sometimes it seems the more I know about women the less I know about women.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1946 (dir. Lewis Milestone)
Walter O’Neil: I wasn’t going to shoot.
Sam Masterson: I wasn’t going to wait and see.
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