George wrote:
>Mark asks about the books NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and
BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH. In
>the late 80s Maxim Jakubowski edited a trade
paperback series for Simon and
>Schuster called Blue Murder, which included those two
titles. The gimmick
>was that all of the books in the series had been made
into noir or noirish
>films...
Hmmmm....Simon & Schuster, out of London, did indeed
publish Blue Murder, but not not all the books in that series
were made into films. Most of them were, but some of them
were just great books. They also published Leigh Brackett's
NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE and Delores Hitchens' SLEEP WITH
SLANDER and SLEEP WITH STRANGERS.
Leave it to the Brits to keep these American books in print,
and then ship 'em back to the colonies to sell. Which,
coincidentally, is how I first read your books, George.
Of course, maybe those offered for sale in the States were
actually published there, not the U.K., and omitted the
non-filmed books in the series.
And Mr. Bowers (Hi, Bill!) asked:
>[I have, but have not yet read, FAMILY HONOR, which
(I believe) was
>more-or-less written on assignment for a series of
proposed tv
>movies. Does anyone have an opinion on it --
undoubtedly somewhere in the
>Archives it's been mention -- or the status ... if
any ... of the tv tie-in?]
It was actually pretty enjoyable. God help me, I got hooked
on it. A little action, a couple of romantic obsessions,
generations in conflict, revenge, desire, violence, the IRA
thrown in for fun...I could see it as a mini-series, but one
of the better ones, more RICH MAN, POOR MAN than the usual
syrupy drippy romantic slush. Maybe it was Parker trying to
do something along the lines of CASABLANCA. It was certainly
better than his love story, HOPE AND GLORY, which actually
nicked its title from CASABLANCA's theme song.
--
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