Tag Archives: film/text & culture
Isaiah 42:14
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. As to Yojimbo, the Samurai-western film of much discussion in the … Continue reading
Psalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. As to Janet Henry’s place in the film The Glass Key, while I … Continue reading
Second Esdras 15:54
Beautify your face! If the first half of The Glass Key‘s film adaptation was scattered, deflated, & flat as week-old Dr. Pepper, then Pt. II was the epitome of each of these expressions. The characters, hard-boiled & run-down in the … Continue reading
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? The subtle excitement & foggy-headed camera lens that made The Glass Key such an enthralling novel was for some reason traded in for cliche Hollywood romance … Continue reading
Sirach 40:13
The wealth of the unjust will dry up like a river, and crash like a loud clap of thunder in a storm Hammett’s The Glass Key is an inquisitive, frustrating, claustrophobic, & catatonic novel, in its writing style, character etchings, … Continue reading