On Thu Sep-27-2018 17:48, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to ROGER NELSON:
> Dark Passage
> Action in the North Atlantic
> To Have and Have Not
MP> To Have and Have Not would be on my list, too. I like those other
MP> two also, but they are not my favorites. I would also include:
MP> Casablanca
MP> The Maltese Falcon
MP> The Big Sleep
MP> We're No Angels (my favorite Christmas movie)
MP> The Petrified Forest
MP> Dead Reckoning
Good choices all. What was the one where he had to pretend to be a priest?
I've forgotten the title.
MP> As for books vs. movies, I really like the movie The Big Sleep, but
MP> I also like the book. There were actually two versions of The Big
MP> Sleep. The first was filmed before the war ended and was closer to
MP> the book. However, the studio wanted to get its war films out
MP> before the war ended, so it got shelved. In the meantime, Laren
MP> Bacall got a part in a movie with a horrible French actor. It
MP> tanked. So, they reshot and replaced several scenes in The Big
MP> Sleep to play on the chemistry she had with Bogart. Howard Hawks
MP> did not want her career tanking with the bad movie!
The one that came the closest was 2001: A Space Odyssey, because the movie and
the book were written at the same time (or close to it). Also, I have seen
trailers (I don't like that name because they are really previews) that were
better than the movies and vice versa.
Another pair of movies coming out next Spring are Captain Marvel (starring a
female in the lead role) and Shazam! (with a youung boy playing Billy Batson).
Guess which one I'm not going to watch. (-:
MP> Sometimes, Turner Classic Movies will play the original version.
MP> The book is my favorite and is written by my favorite author,
MP> Raymond Chandler. I would say I prefer the story in it a little
MP> better, but it is difficult to beat Bogey and Bacall on-screen. :)
I read somewhere that Chandler and the screenwriters had a little trouble with
the ending. I read a lot of Mickey Spillane books back then. They were more
interesting somehow.
Regards,
Roger
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