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ping over those bodies. The book is
one of the great hardboiled crime
novels, preceding Hammett's bet-
ter-known The Maltese Falcon and
helping to establish the genre. Lat-
er adapted as both Akira Kurosa-
wa's samurai epic Yojimbo and as
the perhaps justly forgotten Bruce
Willis vehicle Last Man Standing.
LANGVILLE
GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)
You may love it, hate it, or
have already forgotten that
it exists, but the all-girl re-
make of the 1984 classic
has left at least one indel-
ible mark on pop culture
in the form of a throwaway
line about mysterious go-
ings on in a rural Montana
town: "The entire town of
Langville, Montana [went]
missing." Ever since, the
number of mentions of
and searches for Langville,
Montana, on the internet
have only grown. In the
manner of web lore, it has since acquired new layers, such as
the idea that town didn't just disappear, but that its residents
were "turned inside out." While some erroneously claim there
really was a Langville, the story of a disappearing town is a well-
known piece of late 20th-century American urban legend. See
also Doveland, Wisconsin, and Ashley, Kansas.
GREEN HILLS
SONIC THE HEDGE-
HOG AND SONIC THE
HEDGEHOG 2
Rural sheriff Tom Wasachows-
ki of Green Hills, Montana, is
shocked, in the very popu-
lar Sonic the Hedgehog films,
to find that an electric blue
alien hedgehog has moved
into a cave outside of his
town. The creature can run
so fast that it sets off an EMP
charge, drawing the attention
of a scenery-chewing villain
named Dr. Robotnik. Did any
of you readers of a certain
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