Sentences with phrase «hardboiled private eye»

Willis plays Steve, a hardboiled private eye in Venice Beach who has a penchant for getting himself into trouble.

And remember that Ryan Reynolds is starring as the voice of the talking hardboiled private eye Pikachu?

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It's the classic hardboiled private - eye movie; the nervy maiden offering of its celebrated director, John Huston; the first glamorous star vehicle for Humphrey Bogart, an icon of American cinema and the 20th century's definition of existential cool; and still the most triumphantly well - cast movie from Hollywood's golden age (rivaled only by Casablanca).

The cutting - edge stories appearing in the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine have won numerous awards and run the gamut of mystery's subgenres from the classic whodunit to hardboiled private - eye tales to pure suspense.