Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is a classic of its kind
(not hard-boiled or noir) and I'd say it's highly arguable
whether the excellent and quite different Hitchcock film is
superior.
Speaking of mid-1930s Hitchcock, how about his adaptation of
Conrad's "The Secret Agent", i.e. "Sabotage" (1936)? I
certainly wouldn't say it's better than the novel, but it's
quite a movie, in my opinion.
Stephen Burridge
On 6/29/07,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
>
> "Sticking strictly to that rarest of rare birds,
movie adaptations that
> were superior to their source material.
> THE 39 STEPS (1935)
> THE DESPERATE HOURS (1956)
> IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
> BULLITT (1968)
> CASINO ROYALE (2006)
> and, if you count non-fiction true crime books that
were later
> dramatized on film
> THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)"
>
> I'd add Three Days of the Condor.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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