Hi Richard,
I saw that script and drooled. Were you at Nolan's talk
(along with Joe Gores) about Hammett and Chandler? Scathing
stuff he had to say about Hellman, huh? I was the guy that
Crider was gracious enough to correct when he mis-spoke and
mentioned that he thought that Ross MacDonald had written
about Chet Drum.
Oops!
Any way, that was a great talk listening to those three guys
go on about these authors that had and have influenced "so
many writers who have never either read or heard of
them."
> A bit more information on the unproduced and
unpublished Jonathan Latimer
> screenplay adaptation of Hammett's RED HARVEST. The
dealer was Kevin
Johnson of
> Royal Books in Baltimore and the listing (and pic)
can be found at
> www.royalbooksonline.com or linking via
abebooks.com. It says the
manuscript dates from
> 1941 and has many penciled notations, presumably by
Latimer. This is one
year
> before his adaptation of THE GLASS KEY hit the
theaters. The listed price
is
> $6,500, which to me seems like a bargain. Of course,
that's easy for me
to
> say since I am not about to buy it.
>
> Once my shipment arrives I will report on more of my
finds there. I
shipped
> all the pulps and hardbacks because I had to swing
through Chicago on
business
> before getting home. I am really spending too much
money on these
things.
> I came home to find a stack of packages from eBay
wins, which got me some
> kidding from the family. Good thing they didn't open
them and find the
copies of
> Rogue Magazine, the Playboy imitator, or I would
have been kidded. At
> Bouchercon I ran into William Nolan who was a
regular contributor to
Rogue. He said
> all the unsigned Rogue profiles in the early years
when pulpish paper was
used
> were either by him or Charles Beaumont. The mag
switched to all slick
pages
> around 1959 or 1960.
>
> Nolan has completed his third book on Hammett and
says it is more than 900
> pages. He told me he had submitted it to Knopf but
they wanted changes he
could
> not agree to and asked his agent to withdraw the
book. He's confident it
> will find another publisher and given his track
record I am certain it
will. I
> liked his first two books on Hammett. My favorite
recent book on Hammett
was
> the one a couple of years ago by his daughter. She
was at a convention I
> attended (Washington Bouchercon?) and I regret not
going to her session as
she has
> a very different perspective and articulates it very
well.
>
> Richard Moore
>
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