
Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. -

The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022



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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

Willeford
The Book-
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Tag Archives: Robert Aldrich
Rediscovered: ‘Bo Writin’ on the Wall
Image: Ernest Borgnine as Shack the railroad bull vs. Lee Marvin as the legendary hobo A -No.1 in Robert Aldrich’s Emperor of the North — a definitive hobo/train cinematic statement. Brutal. Most people I’ve met have never heard of this … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Film, Lit, News
Tagged A-No. 1, Autographs, Brian Leno, Emperor of the North, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Black, Jim Tully, Lee Marvin, Robert Aldrich, Sapping Day





