----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Gertzman" <
jgertzma@earthlink.net> To: "rara avis" <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
> I have been reading about Jim Thompson's
collaboration with Stanley
> Kubrick on the latter's 3rd film, _The Killing_.
Kubrick said he wanted
> Thompson's hard boiled dialogue, but the film
clearly shows the
> novelist's influence in other ways. For example, the
well thought out
> plan to steal millions from the race track unravels
due to common
> people's uncommon obsessions and desires: a wife's
disloyalty, her
> husband's masochism, a hit man's bigotry.
Jay, if you check out the excellent source material, the
novel "Clean Break", I think you'll agree that you're
attributing to Jim Thompson what is rightfully Lionel
White's.
Al
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