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| | Hard-Boiled Fiction and Other Media, including Film Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Comic strips had been around for fifty years, as a feature of newspapers, but not until the late 1920s did anyone think to publish them alone, in booklet form. |
 | | From hard times they sought relief; the movies offered a gamut of stories, most of which posed fewer censorship problems than crime movies. |
 | | Walsh worked hard to subsume the Sierra to technique in a celebrated car chase (a double 360 degree shot following Earle, then the police, as they drive up a hair-pin curve in a mountain road), but the swirling dust only emphasizes his battle for control. |
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