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Post by amyghost on Aug 19, 2020 11:30:27 GMT
The movie that many people consider the embodiment, the archetype, of what later was called film noir, namely Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944), is a vast improvement over James M. Cain’s hastily written (for money) lured thriller. Cain was another novelist who admitted freely that the film was better. Wilder and Philip Marlowe creator Raymond Chandler refashioned the story and characters and wrote the script. Agreed. Library of America released a collection of Chandler's writing some years back, that included his original screenplay for Indemnity. It's an interesting read, and interesting to compare with the final version that made it to film.
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Post by waldolydecker on Aug 19, 2020 13:32:38 GMT
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The Highsmith novel is quite different not only in plot but also in tone. It offers a much darker exploration of the protagonist's psyche, than the Hitchcock film.
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