Mark,
Re the list of movies covered by Decharne's book below:
Little Caesar The Big Sleep In a Lonely Place Kiss Me, Deadly
Hell is a City Psycho Point Blank Bonnie and Clyde Get Carter
Dillinger LA Confidential
Since the list seems to be in chronological order, I assume
the version of DILLINGER being covered is the onw ith Warren
Oates as Dillinger and Ben Johnson as FBI Agent Melvin
Purvis, not the 1945 noir with Lawrence Tierney? I've always
liked the Oates/Johnson version. It led to two made-for-TV
sequels (or, perhaps more correctly, prequels, or even more
correctly, "in-between-quels") with Dale Robertson taking
over the Purvis role from Johnson, MELVIN PURVIS - G-MAN and
THE KANSAS CITY MASSACRE
Let me add my own kudos for that
lesser-known-but-deserves-to-be-far-better-known Brit
cop-noir, HELL IS A CITY. THE best, bar none, THE best
British cop movie ever, and a very faithful adaptation of
Maurice Procter's novel, published in the US as SOMEWHERE IN
THIS CITY, the first in his Harry Martineau series.
One change from book to film, and a rather interesting one.
The book was set in "Granchester," which is to Manchester
roughly what Ed McBain's "Isola" is to Manhattan, Ross
Macdonald's and Sue Grafton's "Santa Teresa" is to Santa
Barbara, etc. Th movie was filmed on location in Manchester,
and, at the behest of the city fathers, the script simply
called Martineau's city Manchester instead of using the
fictionalized name.
Has there ever been an 87th Precinct adaptation in which they
just called the "Imaginary City" New York?
JIM DOHERTY
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