I don't remember being all that impressed with the movie "The
Big Clock",
(although it looked great) or it's remake "No Way Out" but
the French version "Police Python 357" with Yves Montand is
fantastic and really worth seeking out.
Brad
> Although I didn't think the book was that bad, it
doesn't really hold-up
> to the other classic novels in the Library of
America Noir omnibus ed's,
> for example. I think THE BIG CLOCK is sort of
border-line noir but
> perhaps it's main claim to noir-status is the well
known film noir movie
> version, starring Ray Milland. I suspect a handful
of mystery novels
> have come to be viewed as noir because of noir film
versions & this is
> probably one of them.
>
> Rene
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