> The 3-part TV-movie version of *The Dain Curse*
starred James Coburn,
> not Jason Robards, as the Continental Op. Clearly
chosen less for his
> physical resemblance to the character than to the
character's creator,
> this connection was heightened by giving the Op a
name, "Hamilton
> Nash," which is, of course, "Dashiell Hammett"
spelled . . . uh . . .
> sideways . . . sort of. - Jim Doherty
I'm sorry to tell my girlish memory about TV-movie,The Dain
Curse.
Maybe in 1978, I read a New York Report by Jiro Kimura
in
Hayakawa's Mystery Magazine, and knew the movie starred James
Coburn.
I have already been crazy for him (especially in Fistful of
Dynamite,
Pat Garrett and Bill the Kid,etc) and dicided to read the
original book.
It was my first encounter with Dashiell Hammet and
Hardboiled.
Lately, I saw the movie and knew it was a.... not good. But
if James Coburn
had not played as Hamilton Nash, I would never know this
RARA-AVIS.
The TV-movie made my life.
Maki Nakada(a.k.a.,Hirotsuji)
makihna@ga2.so-net.ne.jp
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