Unlikely Glossary Project
Red Harvest Movie Cycle

  • Dashiell Hammet wrote the novel(la?) Red Harvest, set in the prohibition-era midwest, about an anti-social tough buy (the Continental Op) who goes into a heavily corrupt small town run by competing gangs and plays the various factions against each other to rid the town of its criminal element.
  • Akira Kurosawa made Red Harvest into Yojimbo, a samurai version of Red Harvest
  • Sergio Leone made A Fistful of Dollars, a western version of Yojimbo
  • Walter Hill made Last Man Standing, a prohibition-era southwest version of A Fistful of Dollars
  • Albert Pyun made Omega Doom, a post-apocalyptic version of A Fistful of Dollars
  • John C. Broderick made The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984), a fantasy version of A Fistful of Dollars
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Revised on September 20, 2005 18:28 by Anonymous Coward