Jacques Debierue wrote, noting Terrill Lankford's quote:
"hard-boiled is about tough guys who win, and noir is about
tough guys who lose."
This does not suffice to cover a lot of noir classics.
Willeford's Figueras was not tough: he was obsessed and he
slowly went crazy. The same goes for the protagonist of
Harrington's Dark Ride...
************* Huh? You didn't think the protagonist in DARK
RIDE was tough? Don't you remember that scene where he's
beating hell out of a punching bag? What about that scene
where he steps into the drug house? The protagonist is a
tough guy who loses. It fits the Lankford criteria perfectly,
doesn't it?
miker
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