History of crime fiction quite complicated, forcing him to embark on an odyssey through the urban landscape. He is involved with organized crime and other lowlifes on the "mean streets" of, preferably, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, or Chicago. A hard-boiled private eye has an ambivalent attitude towards the police. It is his ambition to save America and rid it of its mean elements all by himself. As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe—immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation (1946) of the novel "The Big Sleep" (1939)—admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to
The Last Days of American Crime The Last Days of American Crime The Last Days of American Crime is an upcoming American action crime thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton from a screenplay written by Karl Gajdusek. It stars Edgar Ramirez, Anna Brewster, Michael Pitt, and Sharlto Copley and is based on Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini’s 2009 graphic novel of the same name. On July 27, 2018, it was announced that Edgar Ramirez would star as a career criminal Graham Bricke in the crime thriller film adaptation of the comic book "The Last Days of American Crime" by Rick Remender, which would be directed by