The residents of a small wharf town seethe with passions and ambitions that none of them will be able to realize … without a little betrayal and sin in #FritzLang’s adaptation of #CliffordOdets play, CLASH BY NIGHT. #noirvember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/c...
Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 24
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 24
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#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November24 #GustaveFlaubert #CliffordOdets #JohnSteinbeck #TerryPratchett #MichaelLivingston #AliettedeBodard #booksky
Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 23
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#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November22 #JohnMilton #NoëlCoward #CliffordOdets #JohnSteinbeck #booksky
Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 23
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November22 #JohnMilton #NoëlCoward #CliffordOdets #JohnSteinbeck #booksky
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Jerry’s the salt of the earth. But he’s not the seasoning for you.”
Robert Ryan in Clash by Night
#ClashByNight #Lang #FritzLang #RobertRyan #CliffordOdets #AlfredHayes
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“My right hand hasn’t seen my left hand in thirty years.”
Burt Lancaster in The Sweet Smell of Success
#TheSweetSmellOfSuccess #AlexanderMackendrick #BurtLancaster #CliffordOdets #ErnestLehman #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
“You are only lost if you knew where you were going.”
(Golden Boy)
🎭 #CliffordOdets, American playwright, #DOTD 14 August 1963. #Theatre #Literature
Happy (𝟭𝟭𝟵th) birthday, Clifford #Odets!🎂👏🥳 [°July 18, 1906 – Aug. 14, 1963]🕯️😔🌹
#SweetSmellofSuccess #ClashbyNight #GoldenBoy #TheBigKnife #WaitingforLefty #AwakeandSing #TilltheDayIDie #RockettotheMoon #NightMusic #NonebuttheLonelyHeart #TheGroupTheatre #ErnestLehman #PearlGeisinger #CliffordOdets
“Christ, cut us up to little pieces. We'll die for what is right! Put fruit trees where our ashes are!”
(Waiting for Lefty)
✒️ #CliffordOdets, American dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), was #BOTD 18 July 1906. #Theatre #Literature
4 frames from a film I love. Alexander Mackendrick's "Sweet Smell of Success". #movies #films #sweetsmellofsuccess #alexandermackendrick #burtlancaster #tonycurtis #cliffordodets #ernestlehman #susanharrison #martinmilner #jameswonghowe #elmerbernstein #samlevene #barbaranichols
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“What do you want, Joe, my life history? Here it is in four words: big ideas, small results.”
Barbara Stanwyck in Clash by Night
#ClashByNight #FritzLang #BarbaraStanwyck #AlfredHayes #CliffordOdets
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Don’t kid me, baby. I know a bottle by the label.”
Robert Ryan in Clash by Night
#ClashByNight #FritzLang #RobertRyan #CliffordOdets #AlfredHayes #moviequotes
#MovieQuoteOfTheDay
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📽️ Fritz Lang (1952)
Fritz avait une vision personnelle de son art en s’appuyant en premier lieu sur une maîtrise technique hors pair.
De ce volet, malheureusement, il transcrit un récit manquant de relief et perclus de stéréotypes.
🎭 #CliffordOdets
📷 #NicholasMusuraca
