Colin wrote:
"Get Carter is an obvious and stunning rebirth of a (HB and
very noir)?book in a film and I reccomend reading Max
Decharne on the subject
(search on Gallon Drunk if you'd like to know more as I may
have mispelled his name)."
Thanks, Colin. I didn't know Decharne wrote on this. I
googled him, found he had written a whole book, Hardboiled
Hollywood, on movies and the books they were adaped from.
Went straight to Amazon and ordered a copy (along with a book
he wrote on King's Road, but that's beyond our scope). He
also wrote a book on "hipster slang" that's out of
print.
Then I pulled out my copy of the Flaming Stars compilation,
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, which has their version
of the theme to Get Carter, along with the songs A Hell of
Woman, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye and the title track; another of
their albums has an instrumental titled Coffin Ed and
Gravedigger Jones. Here's a man who'd fit right in here. And
two of his bandmates in the earlier band Gallon Drunk
supplied the creepy backing music for Derek Ryamond's reading
of Dora Suarez.
Mark
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