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Nocturne opens with a tremendous night time aerial shot outside of a modern home hanging off some L.A. hill. The camera rolls slowly closer to the wall-sized window of the home where a man is playing piano. Without cutting, the camera moves through the living room without cutting and focuses on the man playing piano, Keith Vincent (Edward Ashley). He is putting the final touches on a song that he is creating for a the woman in his company. The woman lays silently in a shadow on his couch a few feet a way. He talks endlessly about what he is writing and how it is for ‘her’ song. But being a lady’s man, he also mentions she isn’t the first. He keeps talking and she keeps sitting there, listening. Just as he suggests she should leave, a gun shot rings and the piano player falls dead to the ground. Such is film noir.
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