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Careful and interesting crime thriller in which, however, the rather pretentious framework is largely irrelevant, leaving a detective story slightly off-beat in treatment but otherwise indistinguishable from many others.

 

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Film noir on acid

Dashiell Hammett, who wrote the Maltese Falcon, originally worked for Pinkertons detective agency. What if an old colleague were to track him down later, while ... read more »

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