BULLITT is certainly better than MUTE WITNESS by Robert Pike.
I found Pike's novel to be a bit like a 87th Precinct novel
if Ed McBain hadn't been any good.
Also, Robert Aldrich's KISS ME DEADLY is far superior to
Spillane's very boring novel.
I also find Henri-Georges Clouzot's LES DIABOLIQUES to be
better than the Boileau&Narcejac novel. Not that it's a
bad book, but the movie *is* one of the absolute greats. This
certainly does not hold for the recent remake, though.
Btw, the remake of THE DESPERATE HOURS must be one of the
very worst adaptions of a good novel in the history of moving
pictures.
/ Anders
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