miker, there's a great post on OUT OF THE PAST here:
http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2004/07/13.html#a531
and another one here:
and here's Roger Ebert's take:
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/outofthepast.html
Here's a key paragraph from Ebert: But the critic Jeff
Schwager read all versions of the screenplay for a 1990 Film
Comment article, and writes me:
"Mainwaring's script was not very good, and in one draft
featured awful voice-over narration by the deaf-mute. Cain's
script was a total rewrite and even worse; it was totally
discarded. The great dialogue was actually the work of Frank
Fenton, a B-movie writer whose best known credit was John
Ford's 'Wings of Eagles.'"
Bill Crider
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Robison" <
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2004 11:23 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Out of the Past
> This finally came out on DVD and I watched it
last
> weekend. Superb movie. Noir without the
sometimes
> overworked camera angles and dark and gloom.
I
> noticed that Household (right?) wrote the
screenplay
> as well as the book it was adapted from, BUILD
MY
> GALLOWS HIGH. If I recall correctly, the title of
the
> book never appears in the novel text, but he
did
> manage to work it into the screen text.
>
> Congratulations on the new location for
rara-avis,
> Bill. I'm gearing up for Hammett month in
September.
> I just finished THE GLASS KEY and if I can get
through
> THE THIN MAN, I'll have all of Hammett's novels
under
> my belt.
>
> miker
>
>
>
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