The language in those old DashiellHammett adaptations was laconic but efficient, even eloquent.
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Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and DashiellHammett infused their film scripts with novelistic craft.
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"The Glass Key" (1942), based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 novel, was the second film made from this influential book, in which organized crime and big-city politics are cozy bedfellows.