miker wrote:
"Speaking of Hammett, I'm watching Miller's Crossing right
now, which I've heard is based on RED HARVEST. I somehow
thought it was a grade B movie, but it seems pretty classy.
Haven't exactly found the parallel between the book and the
movie yet, other than a buttload of gangster violence."
I always thought the Coen brothers drew more from Glass Key
than Red Harvest for that movie, but it is definitely their
homage to Hammett
(Blood Simple is their James M Cain movie, Big Lewbowski
their Chandler,
. . .)
Mark
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