"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.
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Their coupling isn't unique -- after all, Dashiell Hammett wrote about the married Nick and Nora Charles more than 70 years ago -- but it's still unusual enough to bring a few new angles to the well-thumbed P.
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Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Dashiell Hammett infused their film scripts with novelistic craft.
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