For over forty years, I’ve been fascinated with looking for forgotten writers and reading their books, a fascination that I’ve used this site since 2006 to share, a fascination that led in 2021 to the creation of the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press and my own rescue of a...
The movie begins with two armed characters holding up a diner. They are looking for a man known only as "the Swede" (Burt Lancaster), and somehow you don't get the sense that they plan to give him a friendly hello. One of the diner guests rushes to the Swede to warn him, yet the...