Word: hardboiledness
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White said the theater hopes to recapture some of its past popularity among students this month with a special showing of a new print of "The Maltese Falcon," in which Bogart had one of his first major starring roles as hardboiled detective Sam Spade.
The movie's few flirtations with the Halloween genre are handled economically and gracefully--the psychiatrist/investigator, the macho-hero-in-pursuit, the hardboiled reporter, and the renegade cop all have their moment as they rotate around the central character. There's even a brief humorous romance for Daughter Number Two...
"Well, like, things are really chilly with me and my parents, but, like, they had this rule that I couldn't bring drugs into the house, and I brought 'em in--so I was out." He shrugged, his eyes rolling like greasy hardboiled eggs under his blonde spikes. I retreated...
"On the basis of personal experience [though] I can say this is one if the few men that in my lifetime as a hardboiled newspaperman I have run across who has absolute integrity," Loeb wrote. Coincidentally, Bok had in 1962 been appointed by a court to determine the damages to...
The sentimentality glows against the chilliness of the script, and I assume the chill is Griffiths'. It's easy to tell that an Englishman had a hand in the dialogue, since much of it is in their Front Page-filtered notion of how Americans, particularly journalists, talk--the hardboiled, crackerjack...