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Goodis, David

The American author David Goodis is ranked as one of the greatest names in ‘noir’ literature, and some of his novels have been labelled classics. This applies not least to his second novel, Dark Passage (1946), which was successfully filmed in 1947 with Laureen Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the starring roles. Goodis started his literary career by writing for pulp magazines and paperback pub...

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Cesare Paul Randollph

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Methodist pastor in a rich congregation in Chicago, which gives him the possibility to live in a luxury flat (owned by the congregation) and to indulge in expensive clothes, good food and beautiful women – including his future wife, the TV star Samantha Stack. But Reverand Randollph, a former football-star in the NFL, also helps the members of his congregation, especially when a murder has been c...

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