Red Harvest
The Coen brothers' film "Blood Simple" (1984) takes its title from a line in "Red Harvest" in which the Op tells Brand the escalating violence has affected his mental state: "This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon, I'll be going blood-simple like the natives." The Coens' film "Miller's Crossing" (1990) employs stylistic and narrative elements of Hammett's "Red Harvest," "The Glass Key," and several of Hammett's shorter works.