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Miller's Crossing. Miller's Crossing is a 1990 American neo-noir [3] gangster film written, directed and produced by the Coen brothers and starring Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J. E. Freeman, and Albert Finney. The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist, Tom Reagan (Byrne ...
James E. Freeman (February 2, 1946 – August 9, 2014) was an American actor and poet. [1]He was often cast in menacing roles, such as the evil mobster Marcelles Santos in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), the terrifying henchman Eddie "the Dane" in the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990), and the cruel scientist Dr. Mason Wren in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection (1997).
Miller's Crossing, released in 1990, starred Albert Finney, Gabriel Byrne, and John Turturro. The film is about feuding gangsters in the Prohibition era, inspired by Dashiell Hammett's novels Red Harvest (1929) and The Glass Key (serialized in 1930).
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. [ 5] It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox ( John Malkovich ), whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees ( Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt ). When they mistake the memoirs for classified ...
Red Harvest. Red Harvest ( 1929) is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). [2] The plot follows the ...
Jon Polito. Jon Raymond Polito (December 29, 1950 – September 1, 2016) was an American actor. [ 1] In a film and television career spanning 35 years, he amassed over 220 credits. [ 2] His television roles included Detective Steve Crosetti in the first two seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street and Phil Bartoli on the first season of Crime Story.
Butcher's Crossing is a western novel by John Williams, originally published in 1960. The story follows William Andrews, a young Harvard student who leaves his life behind to explore the American West. The book begins and ends in the fictional frontier town of Butcher's Crossing, Kansas, in the early 1870s, where Andrews joins a buffalo-hunting ...
David Darlow was born in 1943 in Jerusalem. [1] He grew up in Tel Aviv in his first years. [1] Later he moved to the United States. Darlow started his career at the theatre. In 1974 he directed the Off-Broadway play Demons: A Possession for the New York Playwrights Horizons. [2] He predominantly was active as an actor and director in Chicago ...