Martin Cruz Smith

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David Casseres wrote:
> >Didn't he write that thriller about spies in that Moscow place.  Remember 
> >a killer who cut off the victim's faces, who kinda worked for the KGB, 
> >but was an American.  Made a pretty lousy movie with William Hurt and 
> >Brian Deheny...Forget the title
> Gorky Park.  The first of a trilogy (then come Polar Star and Red Square) 
> which turns out to be the story of the fall of the Soviet Union.  Cruz 
> Smith's writing is very conventional compared to most of what we discuss 
> around here, but it's solid and full of truth.

The movie was largely filmed in Helsinki, which passed for Moscow or
Leningrad in other Hollywood films, too. I happened to visit Helsinki
when they were dressing the town up as Moscow, fixing huge portraits 
of Lenin unto the walls, etc. 

Has anyone of you noticed that it is almost always raining in the
Hollywood Soviet Union?

Heikki