Not to mention Patricia Highsmith's masterpiece first novel,
Strangers On A Train. I do think Hitchcock did justice to
that story. His film by the same title is a cinematic
masterpiece, as well.
Patrick King
--- foxbrick <
foxbrick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Channing"
> <filmtroll@...> wrote:
> > And just as briefly, in a Hitchcock biography
I
> read he said the best
> movies are made
> > from mediocre books. Hitch points to Psycho
and
> The Birds as
> examples.
>
> That's interesting. Hitchcock credits PSYCHO
as
> being all from Robert
> Bloch's excellent short novel, in his
book-length
> interview with
> Truffaut. But perhaps that was in part a
way
> dressing down Joseph
> Stefano, the overly self-regarding
> scriptwriter-adapter. Either way,
> the novel is better than the film.
>
> Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" is a short
story.
> It's also superior to
> the film (rather easier in this case), even
though
> Evan Hunter credited
> Hitchcock with giving him an education in
> screenwriting in expanding
> the concept for the script, in Hunter's FRESH
AIR
> (NPR) interview.
>
> Todd Mason
>
>
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