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Celebrating film noir, from the classics to the obscure. Vinyl records. Art. Coffee. Old diners. Classic TV shows and movies.

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Pitfall (1948) #FilmNoir

Lizabeth Scott and Raymond Burr in a publicity still for Pitfall, a 1948 American film noir crime movie directed by André de Toth.

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Eddie Muller in Dashiell Hammett's restored apartment in San Francisco. #FilmNoir #NoirAlley 📷 ~ Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times, 2014.

This photo is from an article by Dan Saltzstein "San Francisco Noir" in the New York Times, June 27th, 2014...

The night before, I found myself back at 891 Post Street, Hammett’s home. I was led into the building and up a creaky antique elevator by Eddie Muller, a San Francisco native, author and self-proclaimed “noirchaeologist.” We headed to the fourth floor and entered apartment 401; I was immediately struck by a sensation of having traveled through time.

The apartment has been restored to be a simulacrum of what it might have looked like in the ’20s, outfitted with all things vintage: a gramophone, a frosted-glass door and a desk topped with a typewriter and lamp — and yet another replica falcon.

As we sat down to chat over a bottle of bourbon, Mr. Muller, a pleasantly gregarious man clad in a checkered beige suit, blue tie and pocket square, began to explain the story of the apartment’s revival. (The apartment is not open to the public; I got lucky in that Mr. Muller is one of only a couple of people with access. “It is more like a shrine than a museum,” he told me, with evident pride.)

Hammett had sent letters from 891 Post Street, where he wrote three of his five novels, but the apartment’s exact location had to be teased out of clues, ones embedded in “The Maltese Falcon,” by the apartment’s one-time resident, Bill Arney, who had taken Mr. Herron’s tour years before. Spade, too, lived on Post Street, and a few further details — it’s a fourth-floor apartment in proximity to the elevator; there’s an unusual bend in the hallway — left only one suspect: apartment 401.

After Mr. Arney gave up the apartment, Mr. Muller contacted a friend, Robert Mailer Anderson, an acclaimed writer and philanthropist, who had the resources to make the restoration happen. The idea, Mr. Muller said, was “so that it looks like Hammett just went out for a pack of cigarettes.”

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Tuesday #FilmNoir The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart and Jerome Cowan in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

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Lizabeth Scott and Barbara Stanwyck in #FilmNoir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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31 days until Halloween... *Son of Frankenstein (1939).

Boris Karloff wore the bulky fur/sheepskin vest as the Monster in Son of Frankenstein (1939).
• The Movie: Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal's classic series, starring Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi as Ygor.
• The Costume: Karloff’s Monster swaps his iconic dark suit jacket from the first two films for a rugged, heavy fur-trimmed or sheepskin vest over a shirt.
• The Reason: Wardrobe designers used the bulky layered vest partly to give the Monster a more massive, intimidating silhouette and to help disguise that Karloff had filled out a bit since playing the role in 1931 and 1935.

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Monday... 32 days until Halloween 🦇

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Thank you. 😎 Also Josh Mankiewicz kind of made the case that it is film noir in the opening introduction with Eddie.

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Sunday *Humphrey Bogart between takes of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Humphrey Bogart reading a newspaper between takes on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

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Excellent! I'm really looking forward to it!

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#NoirAlley #AceInTheHole #TCMParty 🎡🎪

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I always thought the carnival summed up what the whole situation in #AceInTheWhole had become. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

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Two of a kind... #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Jan Sterling and Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole. (1951).

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My reaction to Eddie saying Ace in the Hole is not a film noir after I've been referring to it as #FilmNoir all week in my posts... #NoirAlley #AceInTheHole #TCMParty

Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole (1951).

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Love seeing Josh and Eddie together! #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Josh Mankiewicz and Eddie Muller.

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Tonight and tomorrow morning on TCM'S #NoirAlley Saturday, September 26, 9:30 p.m. (PT) & Sunday, September 27, 7:00 a.m. (PT). #FilmNoir #TCMParty #AceInTheHole (1951)

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Movie marquee for Ace in the Hole (1951) See it next weekend on TCM'S #NoirAlley presented by @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social #FilmNoir #TCMParty #NewspaperNoir

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Jan Sterling ACE IN THE HOLE (1951) #FilmNoir #NoirAlley

In Billy Wilder's scathing 1951 media satire Ace in the Hole, Jan Sterling delivers what is widely considered the finest, most defining performance of her career.

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Good morning. Moon last night and sunrise this morning. Sonoma County, California 🌴🌅

Yellow almost full moon with palm tree.

Sunrise with orange, yellow and blue colors and streaks.

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Friday *Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in #FilmNoir The Big Sleep (1946)

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Good morning. ☕️ #FilmNoir

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Gort is an eight-foot-tall, silent, and immensely powerful metallic robot who serves as the interstellar guardian to the alien emissary Klaatu in the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
Size and Scale: Standing roughly 8 feet tall (achieved by casting 7-foot-7-inch actor Lock Martin and adding platform lifts inside his boots), Gort cuts an imposing, statuesque figure.
The Suit: Designed by Addison Hehr, the costume was crafted from foam rubber painted with a smooth metallic silver finish, meant to look like a single, seamless piece of flexible alien metal.

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📽 Movie marquee for THE LOSTWEEKEND (1945) #FilmNoir 🎞🦇 #TheNoirCollective

Movie marquee and huge theatre display for THE LOST WEEKEND (1945).

Tommy Krasker@tommykrasker.bsky.social

So what you’re saying is: Billy Wilder this weekend at #NoirAlley, and then back at #TheNoirCollective on October 7 for THE LOST WEEKEND. 😉😅

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📽 Director Billy Wilder while filming ACE IN THE HOLE (1951). See it this weekend on TCM'S #NoirAlley ~ Saturday, September 26, 9:30 p.m. (PT) & Sunday, September 27, 7:00 a.m. (PT). Your hosts... @eddiemuller.bsky.social @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social #FilmNoir #TCMParty #NewpaperNoir

Billy Wilder on location in New Mexico while filming ACE IN THE HOLE (1951).

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Vincent Price played Dr. Frankenstein and dramatically unveiled Carol Burnett as his towering, lightning-streaked Bride of Frankenstein in a classic 1972 horror spoof on The Carol Burnett Show.

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Thursday *Carol Burnett as The Bride of Frankenstein on The Carol Burnett Show, 1972

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John Coltrane with Miles Davis in the background...

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45 days until Halloween... *Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

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Happy Birthday!

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Thanks for keeping us informed about this!

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It's Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944), and your first impression was correct - she was 19.

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Tuesday

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Good morning. ☕️

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📽 Mirror shot with Claire Trevor and Edward G. Robinson in #FilmNoir KEY LARGO (1948) Directed by John Huston

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Gracie Allen and George Burns having lunch in The Brown Derby Restaurant, Hollywood, California, 1951

In 1951, a famous photograph captured the legendary comedy duo George Burns and Gracie Allen having lunch inside the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant. Located at 1628 Vine Street, the Vine Street Brown Derby was a premier Hollywood hotspot where stars gathered, famously known for the celebrity caricatures lining its walls. During this specific period, the married powerhouse couple was busy transitioning their massive radio success into the early golden age of television, having launched The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on CBS just a year prior in late 1950.

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Same.

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I remember watching ISIS and Shazam! on Saturday mornings. 📺

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Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944) #FilmNoir

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Monday

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When you’re ready to get the Halloween decorations out...

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Movie marquee for Ace in the Hole (1951) See it next weekend on TCM'S #NoirAlley presented by @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social #FilmNoir #TCMParty #NewspaperNoir

Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American satirical drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. The film stars Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who creates a media circus surrounding a man trapped in a cave in rural New Mexico to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur and Porter Hall.

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Lucille Ball and William Holden inside The Brown Derby, Hollywood, California, 1955

Lucille Ball and William Holden at The Hollywood Brown Derby in the “L.A. at Last” episode of I Love Lucy. Directed by William Asher, “L.A. at Last” is the first of the Hollywood Lucy episodes and it remains one of the best. While Ricky is at a studio meeting, Lucy and the Mertzes go about Hollywood to look for movie stars and end up at the Brown Derby...

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📽 Wild shot from The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 🎞

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Thank you!

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Good morning.

Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster in The Munsters first episode of the series, Munster Masquerade, which originally aired on September 24th, 1964.

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Excellent! I'm really looking forward to this! Thank you! #FilmNoir #Noirvember #NoirvemberChallenge 2026

Harry Belafonte in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

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Friday

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Revenge of the Creature (1955)

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Make-up artist Jack Pierce and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster - Son of Frankenstein (1939)

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Thursday

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Haunting image from #FilmNoir The Night of the Hunter (1955)