>Bill
>--
>William Denton
I'll try to contribute to the thread by answering two
questions raised here
by followers.
1/ Fuller, film director
Last film directed by Sam Fuller is indeed 'Sans Espoir de
Retour' -Street
of No Return/ 1989, but he didn't script it. This is a French
production and
script was done by Jacques Bral, based of course on the top
novel by David
Goodis.
The French title is the title given to Goodis' book when it
was published in
France
in 1956 (original American publishing: 1954)
Fuller was living in France at the end of his life.
2/ Bill's question about Fuller as a writer.
Apart from writing scripts for Hollywood during the 30's and
early 40's, and
later some of his own films'scripts, Fuller was writing
novels as well.
Not only some novelization of his films, but some original
novels were
published by this talented author, best known as a first
class film director.
Apart from some action/adventure novels, his HB mystery
novels include:
The Dark Page - 1944- one of his bests
I do not have all my references here, so I'm not too sure
about the genre of
the following novel by Fuller:
144, Picadilly
One novelization by Fuller, of one of his films, was
particularly well done
and was successful as a mystery/ HB book at the time:
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street- 1974
To note: another novelization, 'Shock Corridor' -
melodramatic and Noir ,
was done by Michael Avallone (prolific writer in many genres,
including Noir
and HB) and made Fuller angry; he tried to stop Avallone's
book for
plagiarism. It is still published, but with both of them in
the credits.
There is an interesting book on Sam Fuller:
SAM FULLER: FILM IS A BATTLE GROUND by Lee Server
Hope the above will help.
E.Borgers
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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