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Criss Cross: Sharpening Her Nails
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I think the noir animated GIFs this semester are going to be fun! This GIF features Anna Dundee (played by Yvonne DeCarlo) sharpening her nails in Robert Siodomak’s 1948 noir Criss Cross, a film wherein Burt Lancaster reprises his role as chump from Siodomak’s 1946 The Killers. This film is an awesome companion film to The Killers, and it was actually remade in 1995 as The Underneath by Steven Soderbergh—a film I also really like. The plot centers around an armored car heist and Steve Thompson’s (Burt Lancaster) ill-fated romance with a quite memorable femme fatale. I like this GIF ...
The Killers Animated GIF: Headlights
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This is the opening scene from Robert Siodomak’s 1946 noir classic The Killers, which is an extrapolation of Ernest Hemingway’s short story by the same name. That’s part of why Hemingway starts off the hardboiled course, and this film is one of my favorites, if not my favorite, noir of all time. Ava Gardner is the most seductie femme fatale ever, and while no Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, Kitty was still ferocious. And Burt Lancaster plays the greatest sap in noir history between this film and Siodomak’s other noir masterpiece Criss Cross (1948) This animated GIF is interesting in ...