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Well, you've pretty much described the opening of Farewell My Lovely
(1975), with Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe.
Richard Wohlfeiler
>help . . . i'm trapped in a generational bog and need help
>to extricate myself . . . in talking about film noir to an intro
>to film class i tried to evoke recognition by alluding to
>an almost archetypal noir moment:
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> a single guy, perhaps wearing a trenchcoat, in a
> crummy hotel room alone at night; the hotel's neon
> sign is just outside his window blinking on and off, the
> light shining on him through the venetian blinds in the
> window; outside it is of course raining; on the
> soundtrack either a wailing saxophone and/or a voice
> over narration talking, saying something bitter and
> cynical on the order of "everything seemed to be
> swell, until . . ."
>
>mike frank
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