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  2. Hardboiled - Wikipedia

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    Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as ...

  3. Category:Hardboiled - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to hardboiled, a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the ...

  4. Sam Spade - Wikipedia

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    The character, however, is widely cited as a crystallizing figure in the development of hard-boiled private detective fiction—Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless and less-than-glamorous detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of ...

  5. Clive Owen Takes on Dashiell Hammett's Most Famous Detective ...

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    One of the most famous fictional detectives and probably the namesake of the "hard-boiled" detective, Sam Spade has a long fan following. Created by author Dashiell Hammett, ...

  6. The Continental Op - Wikipedia

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    As many of Hammett's short stories were later published in collected volumes, the publishing history of these works is sometimes confused. The Continental Op made his debut in the October 1923 issue of Black Mask, making him one of the earliest hard-boiled private detective characters to appear in the pulp magazines of the early twentieth century.

  7. Red Harvest - Wikipedia

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    A short while after, he wrote a second draft that was more faithful to Hammett's story. For the role of the Op he considered Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson (who had played a hard-boiled detective in Roman Polanski's neo-noir film Chinatown), and Clint Eastwood (who had played the Op-inspired "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy).

  8. Noir fiction - Wikipedia

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    Noir denotes a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, generally featuring a disturbing mixture of sex and violence. [1]While related to and frequently confused with hardboiled detective fiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the two are not the same. [2]

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