![]() ![]() ![]() The Op starts to sniff around, and soon discovers the town is being torn apart by two competing criminal gangs, originally summoned there by various business interests to squelch a miners’ strike.Ĭaught between the two gangs, the Op plays them off against each other, hiring on to both sides. In the novel, originally serialized in Black Mask, the Continental Op is summoned to the Montana mining town of Personville (often slagged by the locals as “Poisonville”) by the local newspaper editor, but the editor is murdered before the two can meet. ![]() But Hammett has never been credited on the screen as the original source material. ![]() Okay, so here’s the thing: Dashiell Hammett’s classic 1929 hardboiled novel Red Harvest, featuring the private detective known only as The Continental Op, has been the basis for at least five movie adaptations, at least three that are well worth your time. The Hammett Classic Comes to the Big Screen ![]()
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