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"A Hard Time Keeping Up" is very much a Chester Himes-type of hard-boiled story told through Ellison's prism.
Cagney riffed on this hard-boiled persona for about a decade, most harrowingly in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), playing Rocky Sullivan, a killer who freaks out just as he's about to go to the electric chair.
[ In my (vast) culinary experience, the term is oeuf à la Russe, and it consists merely of a hard-boiled egg, cut in half lengthwise, served with a mustardy mayonnaise sauce and, if one is lucky, a caper or two.
The city’s setting in a magnificent bay embraced by soaring green mountains is one of those blessings that can turn any hard-boiled atheist into a believer.
Mel Gibson plays a hard-boiled bad guy intent on recovering some stolen money in this adaptation of Richard Stark's novel The Hunter (which was also the basis for John Boorman's acclaimed modern noir Point Blank in 1967).