The John Hillerman Thread

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We made a big fuss about American crime cinema of 1973 (including the fact that was the 50th anniversary of the, as I said argued in this article, very overrated The Long Goodbye).
But, actually, 1974 wasn’t too shabby either. In addition to the heavy hitters that year - The Conversation, Chinatown, The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, Bring Me the Head of Diego Garcia - there were, as always, several great films that flew under the radar and continue to do so. For my money, the best of this latter grouping is Robert Mulligan’s The Nickel Ride.

Sorry Dobie, but I had to chuckle when I read "Bring Me the Head of Diego Garcia".

As any Fletch fan knows, it's Alfredo Garcia, and strangely, it was correct in the original article (https://andrewnette.substack.com/p/the- ... crime-film):

Not my fault amigo, as indicated I copied that from the PULP CURRY literary/film blog, it got by both the editors and me, I should have caught it too. Good catch.
Anyone interested in noir flicks/books will like that site. With all their nods to Sam Spade etc, the production team behind Magnum PI would have enjoyed it.

Interesting, they must have fixed it on Pulp Curry since you copied it, because that screen capture (showing Alfredo, not Diego) was taken today from Pulp Curry (the link above). Regardless, I was laughing with you (or at least near you), not at you.

For those of you who enjoy taking a bad pun too far, the current head of Diego Garcia is Navin Ramgoolam, the prime minister of Mauritius.