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#ShadowsSpeak Listen to the darkness. The voices of film noir, one quote at a time.

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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 1h
#AWomanOnPier13 was not the feature film debut of character actor William Talman, as some claim. Talman appeared in "Red, Hot & Blue," one month before the release of "I Married A Communist," which was later retitled after it flopped at the B.O.. #TCMParty with Burger
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 1h
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series #AWomanOnPier13 #TCMParty with the Party
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 23h
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 🍿 #WatchParty 🍿 @ladykdesigns.bsky.social hosts Wednesday night's #TheNoirCollective screening of #TheUnsuspected with special guest @anne-hockens.bsky.social of the Film Noir Foundation.
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you watched a lot of TV in the 60s & 70s, you witnessed this guy in tons of shows: Kojak, Love American Style, The Mod Squad, Lassie, Family Affair, I Spy, Death Valley Days, McHale's Navy and many more #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty with Jay Novello
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty with stunning artwork
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 📽️#CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty 🥳 🎬#NoirSky #FilmSky #MovieSky 🎞️
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series #FilmSky #NoirSky #BNoir
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Patterns was originally a live TV broadcast. It starred Richard Kiley in the lead role of Fred Staples. Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, and Elizabeth Wilson would go on to reprise their roles in the theatrical version. #TCMParty Clip from the 1955 episode of the series Kraft Television Theatre.
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Beatrice Straight plays Van Heflin’s wife in #Patterns, but she’s best remembered for her Oscar-winning turn in #Network, an indelible performance lasting just 5 minutes and 2 seconds.
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lots of excellent performances in #Patterns. Elizabeth Wilson, as highly loyal Marge Fleming, is one of my favorites. #TCMParty with the words of Rod Serling
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series #FlamingoRoad #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tallulah Bankhead was a vocal supporter of racial equality. She was the first white woman to appear on the cover of Ebony magazine. #Rope #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series #FilmSky #NoirSky #FrenchNoir
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#TheNoirCollective
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Saw #TheLostWeekend when I was a kid, some 50+ years ago. I had multiple family members who were alcoholics. It was tough to see then ... and, frankly, getting tough now as Don Birnam descends. Great movie. #TheNoirCollective
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The instrument used to create the eerie sound, to emphasize alcohol craving, in #TheLostWeekend is named the theremin. Often used in 1950s sci-fi films and you might have heard it in songs like "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin. #TheNoirCollective
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Encore #ShadowsSpeak in honor of tonight's #TheNoirCollective #WatchParty of #TheLostWeekend Visit @thenoircollective.bsky.social for details
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 🎥📽️🍿 TONIGHT! #WatchParty #TheNoirCollective presents #TheLostWeekend Details at @thenoircollective.bsky.social
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series #Filmsky. #NoirSky #Moviesky
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series #FilmSky #MovieSky #BritNoir @filmnoiruk.bsky.social
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wassup with #TCM? They're showing two thirds of the #ThreeColors trilogy. Where's Red?
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 🏦 #Loophole #TCMParty #NoirAlley
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Richard Reeves (Pete) grew up in a wealthy family. His dad was..... a bank executive! #NoirAlley #Loophole #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not one song from Xavier Cugat!!!! #TCMParty #Loophole #NoirAlley
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Charles McGraw is so likable at being unlikeable #NoirAlley #Loophole #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like the man said...
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 🎥🥊📽️ 📽️🥊🎥 🎥🥊📽️ #TheSet-Up #TCMParty with people who've had enough!
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Was there a more despicable Kirk Douglas character than the one in #OutOfThePast. The scene where he slaps Jane Greer and threatens her is spine chilling. #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I first saw #OutOfThePast when I was in high school. I took a bus to a revival house in Chicago's Rush St. area. The following day I excitedly told my film-class teacher about it. He pretended not to have seen it so I could tell him the plot. #TCMParty with memories of good teachers
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, and Dick Powell all turned down the role of Jeff Bailey/Markham in #OutOfThePast. Who would you have liked to see in the Robert Mitchum role? #TCMParty with casting directors
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#TCM takes us deep into the shadows today #HellDrivers High-octane tale of a road to nowhere #OutOfThePast A man's past returns to collect #TheSet-Up A fighter battles fate & the final bell #Loophole Tonight's #NoirAlley selection is one I've never seen #TCMParty Let the shadows speak
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 🎬 #CastADarkShadow (1955) #FilmSky #MovieSky #NoirSky #TCMParty with Dirk Bogarde
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 🎬 #Crossfire (1947) #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 📽️📽️🍿🍿 #WatchParty of #TheGuilty tonight! @marcikay.bsky.social is your host. @thenoircollective.bsky.social with details #TheNoirCollective
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 📽️📽️ #WatchParty of #TheGuilty Wednesday night! @marcikay.bsky.social is your host. @thenoircollective.bsky.social with details
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Looks like the 2nd Terminator
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
❗For the morning #NoirAlley fans❗ ⚠️SPOILER ALERT⚠️ This ending!!!! Wow!!!! #AceInTheHole #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The colossal amount of cynicism in #AceInTheHole is probably why it was such a box office bomb. #NoirAlley #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There aren't many Noir anti-heroes as narcissistic as Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas). One that comes to mind is Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) of Nightmare Alley. #TheNoirCollective will feature another another in their next #WatchParty. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #AceInTheHole
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series 🎥#NoirAlley #AceInTheHole #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If it's Ray Teal, it's definitety #FilmNoir #AceInTheHole #NoirAlley #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As Kirk Douglas descends further and further down the cave #AceInTheHole becomes more and more of a #FilmNoir. He's revealed his self-serving intent. #NoirAlley #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoir Quote Series #TheTwoMrsCarrolls
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#ShadowsSpeak A Daily #FilmNoirQuote Series #HighWall #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From the Hollywood Reporter a few weeks ago
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are theories that #EyesWideShut is more about the exploitation of vulnerable women by a powerful global elite than marriage and sexual jealousy. #TCMParty
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The ending to Kubrick's #FullMetalJacket is a contrast to his earlier war film, #PathsOfGlory. Kirk Douglas' character recognized that his troops, despite the brutality of the war, still had their souls. In Jacket, the Marines' sing a childhood song. However, there's no sign of souls surviving.
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🅐🅛🅓🅞 🅖🅐🅝🅓🅘🅐 @shadowsspeak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kubrick had the Marines talk in a monotone, rhythmic cadence to show how basic training hollowed them out to become tools of the state. #TCMParty #FullMetalJacket
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