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Word: dashiel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last winter's entertainment bill, director John Huston has turned a routine espionage film into one of the fastest, most exciting pictures of the year. Unlike the "Falcon," "Across the Pacific" will not make movie history. Its plot and script, dashed off on a typewriter far less subtle than Dashiel Hammett's, are standardized portions of spy melodrama. The usual number of dead bodies up tortuous alleys combines with some amazingly handy Johnny-on-the-spot acts to make for a film which in other hands might have been only a better than average second feature...

Author: By T. S. K., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/16/1942 | See Source »

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