The 1946 adaptation of Cain's THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
changed Nick's ethnicity from Greek (Papadakis) to Canadian
(Smith), allegedly to obtain better box office numbers in
Greece.
davividavid wrote:
>Just finished Martin Goldsmith's _Detour_. Along with
expunging the Sue Harvey/Hollywood
>sub-plot, all of the sex, Haskell's weed habit, and
some of the ambiguity about the second
>crime, Goldsmith & Ulmer interestingly decided to
remove from the novel the main
>character's Jewishness. Al Roberts in the film was
Alex Roth in the novel, stage name for
>Rothenberg. It reminded me of Nick Charles losing his
Greek name, Charalambides, in the
>Thin Man films, and got me to wondering how many
other characters have lost their ethnicity
>in the transfer from page to screen in noir
adaptations.
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