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Red Harvest is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op , a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). [2]
Jan 10, 2020 · Bruce Willis, nameless and given to brandishing twin .45s at the slightest provocation, wanders into a dusty Texas town and promptly sets off a war between rival gangs; much of the plot may have been transliterated from the Japanese version, but anyone familiar with Red Harvest would note the Prohibition Era setting, the corrupt cops and ...
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Feb 18, 2021 · The film centers around the investigation of the murder of a young Native American woman, Natalie Hanson (Kelsey Asbille Chow), in the titular Wyoming...
Akira Kurosawa adapted Hammett's novel (also using some portions of another novel of Hammett's - "The Glass Key") as "Yojimbo", a samurai movie which itself was remade a lot, both legally and illegally. This list tries to compile titles which used the Red Harvest/Yojimbo premise, even partially.
Red Harvest is an excellent read for fans of crime fiction, stories of moral conflict, fans of Dashiell Hammett’s more popular works—such as The Maltese Falcon—and anyone interested in terse, stylized American prose from the early 20 th century.
71 Metascore. After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen. Directors: George Miller, George Ogilvie | Stars: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn. Votes: 145,453 | Gross: $36.20M.
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It has been noted that the overall plot of Yojimbo is closer to that of another Hammett novel, Red Harvest (1929). Kurosawa scholar David Desser, and film critic Manny Farber claim that Red Harvest was the inspiration for the film; however, Donald Richie and other scholars believe the similarities are coincidental.
