In a message dated 2/14/07 12:39:18 PM,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net writes:
>
> "I'd like to add that THE SILENT PARTNER is another
terriffic
> hardboiled/noir Elliot Gould movie. I'm not sure how
easy it is to find,
> but it's worth the quest. It's an early script by
Curtis Hansen who
> would go on to co-write the screenplay and direct
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL many
> years later."
>
> Meant to reply to this at the time (don't think I
did, if so, sorry for
> the repeat). Looked it up. It's coming
out on DVD in April. A
> terribly underrated film unknown to most. It's
modest in its goals, but
> really achieves them (a trait I'm coming to
appreciate more and more
> these days). I was so blown away by it when I
saw it during that mere
> week or two it was out that I gathered up some
friends and went back to
> the the theater the very next night. Hope it
holds up.
>
> Oh yeah, it's got a '70s violent scene to rival the
coke bottle scene in
> Long Goodbye.
>
I recall having the same reaction back then but also haven't
seen it since
interesting post about Chandler adapting Cain as well. I had
heard most of that before. I appreciate Chandler for his
virtues, which are tremendous enough to forgive him his
failings. but I'm a much bigger fan of both Postman and
Indemnity than anything in the Marlowe pantheon. and I
completely disagree that the film written by Chandler is an
improvement over the book. I love Cain's ending
The moon.
John Lau
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