Colin wrote
>Not LA, nor really hardboiled but certainly film noir
possibly of some
>relavance to this discussion especially as regards
the cold war. >Vienna in
>the Third Man, a frontier city with lots and lots of
>possibilities for
>naughtiness, very wild west in fact.
>Frontiers/edges/boundaries I think
>its
>that meself.
Hey, I'll certainly give Graham Greene the HB label, at least
some of the time. I don't think it's any stretch to call "The
Third Man" a detective story. So, for that matter, is "The
End of the Affair." Greene's spy stories have a definite HB
feel, and "Brighton Rock" is a straight-out murder tale
(can't recall how much it's actually a mystery but a lot of
HB doesn't really a mystery), with a prototypical amoral
psychopath hero. If Greene isn't hard-boiled, I dunno who is,
and he's certainly an influence on contemporary HB writers
(the references to "The Third Man" in, say, Lehane's
"Prayers for Rain" aren't exactly subtle - Patrick actually
quotes a David Denby essay on the film).
Carrie
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