Given that this list about BOOKS, (some of) my favorite (and
obvious) adaptations of noir/hardboiled classics are:
Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler/Robert Altman) Maltese Falcon
(Dashiell Hammett/John huston) The Big Heat (William P.
McGivern/Fritz Lang) Double Indemnity (James M. Cain/Billy
Wilder) Out of the Past (Daniel Mainwaring-Geoffrey
Homes/Jacques Tourneur) Coup De Torchon (Jim
Thompson/Betrrand tavernier) Postman Always Rings Twice
(James M. Cain/Tay Garnett, I think) Kiss Me Deadly (Mickey
Spillane/A. I. Bezzerides/Robert Aldrich) Miami Blues
(Charles Willeford/George Armitage) Grifters (Jim
Thompson/Stephen Frears)
-- JT Lindroos wit's end publishing www.sendwit.com
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