Soirées Noires: A San Spade Detective Story

Chapter 4

July 1947

VI

I burst through the front door of the office, taking Tina so offguard she let out a surprised “Oh!”

‘Tina, who do we know down at the coroner’s office? Any friends who can help us out? I need to know what piqued Grissom in court today.” I quickly recounted the last few minutes of the Anderson trial for Tina and she began dialing immediately.

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Soirées Noires: A San Spade Detective Story

Chapter Four Parts III-V

Sept 1947

III

I’ve always been a fan of boxing, pugilism, fighting, whatever you’d like to call it. Boxing teaches you a lot about life: how to take a punch on the chin, how to dust off your rear after a licking, and how to stand back up for the next swing without flinching. You see a man box and you know a lot about how he lives his life.

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Uh oh oh. Uh oh oh oh oh oh. Uh oh oh oh Uh oh oh. Uh oh oh oh oh oh. Uh oh oh oh

The uninterrupted version of Amy Irving’s Why Don’t You Do Right? featured in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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Soirées Noires: A San Spade Detective Story

Chapter 4

Sept 1947

[Genénérique | Miles Davis]

Ask anyone who steps off the train at Union Station, Lady Metropolis, even on her worst days, is hypnotizing. Big City lights, Big City promises, every fantasy you hold you can fulfill in Metropolis. Step off that train and start over. Like a brand new baby, you’re mesmerized by the colors, the gleam of the marble, the steel, the glass, the brass. You think every shiny coin is gold and every smiling face and open hand wants the best for you. You never realize you’ve been rolled for your wallet. You’ll never feel that shiny new knife challenging the structural integrity of your vital organs. You never realize any of it, until it’s too late. It happens, ask Blaine Anderson.

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Do you hear that North Carolina?? Do you??

dispatchesfromnoir:

Amidst all the Dark Knight Returns hoopla, I thought I’d share some other news from the world of hardboiled superheroes.  Here’s a teaser from the upcoming Cartoon Network series Beware the Batman.  Part of the beauty of Batman is the myriad of different takes on the character—from Frank Miller’s damn-near psychopathic All-Star Batman to Adam West’s loopy Caped Crusader.  After the relatively campy (but damn good) Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the next cartoon looks to be darker—perhaps in the vein of the masterful Batman: The Animated Series.  Alas, it does not look like Beware the Batman will share the classic animation and art deco stylings of Batman: TAS.  But there may be other noirish elements, so stay tuned!

In the mean time, I eagerly await The Dark Knight Returns.But the teasers and trailers prior to this week’s have mostly just shown explosions and glowering.  And we all know Christopher Nolan is a genius because there is more to his movies than that.  I’ve no doubt TDKR will be brilliant, but I refuse to get excited until the trailers give some semblance of a plot.  Nolan has produced some of the finest neo-noirs and noir-inspired blockbusters I have ever seen.  That’s what excites me about TDKR.  But not what the manufacturers of trailers choose to emphasize.  So I’m saving my excitement for the movie.