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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Thornton"
<tieresias@...> wrote:
>
> Patrick King wrote:
>
> >To a large extent, Faulkner WAS a hardboiled
boy. He
> >wrote the script for Hawk's THE BIG SLEEP and
several
> >others.
>
> He collaborated on the script for THE BIG SLEEP, he
didn't write
it. Among those with whom he worked on it was Leigh Brackett,
a good writer in her own right (who won an Oscar for her work
on the script for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and also worked on
the script for Altman's LONG GOODBYE, if memory serves
correctly).
>
> Brian
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK screenplay was not nominated for an
Oscar. The movie won for best sound and there were other
nominations.
The cowriter on THE BIG SLEEP who is often forgotten was
Jules Furthman, who had worked with Hawks before, such as on
the very good film ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS, and on some very
good MGM pictures such as CHINA SEAS, one of my favorite
adventure films. Of interest to this list was his screenplay
for Tyrone Power's NIGHTMARE ALLEY.
Faulkner had also worked with Hawks before and would again.
This was Brackett's maiden voyage with Hawks but she became
one of his regulars. She and Furthman collaborated in 1959 on
RIO BRAVO, one of my top ten favorite westerns.
One Brackett teleplay I would like to see was an episode of
the short-lived series ARCHER, based on the Ross Macdonald
character and starring Brian Keith. I have grown to
appreciate Keith more in recent years and do not recall
seeing any of the Archer shows. The one by Brackett was
titled "The Body Beautiful" which is apparently unrelated to
Bill Ballinger's hardboiled novel by that title.
Richard Moore
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