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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• WILLIAM H. MOONEY

Titel

Hammett in Retrospect: Miller’s Crossing (1990)

Ist Teil von

• Dashiell Hammett and the Movies, 2014, p.154

Ort / Verlag

Rutgers University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Half a century after the second film version ofThe Glass Keythere would be a third,Miller’s Crossing(1990). The passage of time, however, ensured that this adaptation, not only of Hammett’s novel but also of the two earlier films as well as other sources, would produce a categorically different kind of work—different because it was made for a changed world, and different by the very fact of its retrospectivity. Hammett’s stories and novels were set in the present. As they were remembered or sought out rather than newly popular, they triggered a sense of the past, at