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Miller's Crossing takes place in 1929 in an unnamed American city (most of the exteriors were shot in New Orleans, taking advantage of that city's vintage architecture and streetcar line). Its convoluted plot depicts the journey of Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of the boss of an Irish crime gang. Tom is an ambivalent, enigmatic protagonist, who may or may not be plotting against his boss. Either way, he ends up caught in, and partly causing, a bloody gang war.

. Many of its situations, characters and dialog are derived from the work of Dashiell Hammett, especially his novel Sam Raimi, film director and friend of the Coens, appears in a cameo as the principal police gunman at the siege of the Sons of Erin pub.Albert Finney appears in a very brief cameo as an elderly woman in the ladies' room when Tom bursts in there to confront Verna.During filming the New Orleans Police would arrive semi regularly to assess fines for permits the film crew had already procured. Joel Coen commented to Premiere Magazine during shooting," they are acting precisely like the cops that we're depicting in the movie, and they don't even care!"Although the city where the film takes place is never mentioned, it may be New York. At one point Tom tells Verna that she should go to the Palisades for a few days until the war between Leo and Casper calms down. Tom may be talking about the Palisades region of New Jersey.