On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Anders Engwall wrote:
> Then again, did McBain really have any status as
a
> "real" author back then? I of course don't know how
he
> was regarded in Japan, but in Sweden he was
essentially
> unknown in 1963 -- just another one of all those
obscure
> paperback hacks. Hammett, OTOH, might very well have
been
> regarded as a classic.
Your're right. I didn't think of that. Kurosawa has written
his memoirs, has anyone here read it? What does he say about
these matters?
> There's also the one with Toshiro Mifune as a
gangster
> with tuberculosis, whatever the English title is.
Fine
> stuff.
I don't recognize this.
Juri
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