Sentences with phrase «boiled private eye»

Find allies on the dark streets of Reiker, including hard - boiled private eye, Ray Case, Reiker City Police Lieutenant Emilia De Soto, and Elena Furey, who is hunting down Survivalists for reasons of her own.

A big city never looks the same once you've walked its streets with a hard - boiled private eye.

(It'll transform you into a sultry femme fatale from a forties movie; perhaps he'll want to role - play the hard - boiled private eye.)

Not exact matches

Given the missed opportunities and forced efforts on DVD this week, The Missing Person (Strand) looks all the better, a low - key private - eye pastiche with a disaffected detective and a running stream of hard - boiled narration winding his way through a missing persons case that resonates with the losses and anxieties of 9/11.

Liam Neeson will follow in the footsteps of many hard - boiled men before him to play the legendary private - eye Philip Marlowe, previously embodied by the likes of Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould, and Robert Mitchum.

12:00 N — TCM — The Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart inhabits the role of Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade, creating one of the definitive on - screen hard - boiled detective (vying only with Bogart's Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, really).

10:00 pm — TCM — The Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart inhabits the role of Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade, creating one of the definitive on - screen hard - boiled detective (vying only with Bogart's Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, really).

Dashiell Hammett's supreme hard - boiled detective novel, with Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, and an unbeatable supporting cast that includes femme fatale Mary Astor, genial fat man Sydney Greenstreet, perfumed crook Peter Lorre, patsy Elisha Cook Jr., and tough cops Ward Bond and Barton MacLane — all turned by writer - director John Huston into «the stuff that dreams are made of.»

Like Haruki Murakami in Hard - Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1991), Chabon plays with the conventions of the Chandlerian private - eye novel, but that's only one ingredient in an epic - scale alternate - history saga of Jewish life since World War II.

Martinez crafts a private eye in the best tradition of hard - boiled futuristic detection, with plenty of beautiful babes and evil geniuses, and written in classic wisecracking first - person narrative.

Set in the 1930s to the 1950s, Collins's gripping and humorous hard - boiled stories follow Heller, a Chicago private eye with a knack for nabbing high - profile cases involving famous people.