Patter, Part 1: Gangsters, Film Noir, Hardboiled Detectives, and Tough Guys Post Script

In Part 1 (of 2) of this season on "Patter", Tori and Dávid discuss the way that gangsters, hardboiled detectives, and tough guys talk in the movies of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and how it changed over time.

Topics and films mentioned:


Little Caesar, 1931, directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Scarface, 1932, directed by Howard Hawks
The Maltese Falcon, 1941, directed by John Huston
The Big Sleep, 1946, directed by Howard Hawks
Pickup on South Street, 1953, directed by Samuel Fuller
The Public Enemy, 1931, directed by William A. Wellman
Frank Sinatra & The Rat Pack
The Hays Code (The Motion Picture Production Code) - Original Text
Martin Scorsese
Double Indemnity, 1944, directed by Billy Wilder
⁠Leslie Nielsen⁠ & ⁠The Naked Gun⁠, 1988
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, 1982, directed by Carl Reiner
The Cheap Detective, 1978, directed by Robert Moore
Murder by Death, 1976, directed by Robert Moore
Philip Marlowe
Film Noir & Hardboiled
48 Hrs., 1982, directed by Walter Hill
Die Hard, 1988, directed by John McTiernan
Lethal Weapon, 1987, directed by Richard Donner
Dirty Harry, 1971, directed by Don Siegel
WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, (Quote is from Commando)
Raymond Chandler & Dashiell Hammett
Columbo, TV Series, 1971-1978
Chinatown, 1974, directed by Roman Polanski
Murder, My Sweet, 1944, directed by Edward Dmytryk
Detour, 1945, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer