Mark Blumenthal (blumenidiot@21stcentury.net)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:50:04 -0500
Magnificent 7 seems to have a following on this list. To keep
this on topic, did Kurosawa have a hard boiled source for
Seven Samurai as he did with Yojimbo? The plot of somebody
going in and cleaning up a town is pretty common in hard
boiled fiction, but I'm unaware of having a group whose
members are fairly equal do this. If more than one a person
is sent to do the job, usually they go sequentially with the
protagonist coming after his predecessor has been killed as
in Latimer's Solomon's Vineyard. His Bill Crane books do
usually have at least 3 detectives, but the others are
clearly subsidiary to Crane, and the books' focus is more
towards mystery than the killing off the controlling
gang.
Parker started the trend of the detective having a more or
less equal partner who will do the dirty work with few moral
qualms, but except for the Doc Savage books and comics, I'm
unaware of a similar group. Maybe we have to go back to __The
Three Musketeers__, the classics or Far Eastern folk tales.
Mark Blumenthal
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