On Thu Sep-27-2018 17:48, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to ROGER NELSON:

> Dark Passage
> Action in the North Atlantic
> To Have and Have Not

 MP> To Have and Have Not would be on my list, too.  I like those other
 MP> two also, but they are not my favorites.  I would also include:

 MP> Casablanca
 MP> The Maltese Falcon
 MP> The Big Sleep
 MP> We're No Angels (my favorite Christmas movie)
 MP> The Petrified Forest
 MP> Dead Reckoning

Good choices all.  What was the one where he had to pretend to be a priest?
 I've forgotten the title.

 MP> As for books vs. movies, I really like the movie The Big Sleep, but
 MP> I also like the book.  There were actually two versions of The Big
 MP> Sleep.  The first was filmed before the war ended and was closer to
 MP> the book.  However, the studio wanted to get its war films out
 MP> before the war ended, so it got shelved.  In the meantime, Laren
 MP> Bacall got a part in a movie with a horrible French actor.  It
 MP> tanked.  So, they reshot and replaced several scenes in The Big
 MP> Sleep to play on the chemistry she had with Bogart. Howard Hawks
 MP> did not want her career tanking with the bad movie! 

The one that came the closest was 2001: A Space Odyssey, because the movie
and the book were written at the same time (or close to it).  Also, I have
seen trailers (I don't like that name because they are really previews)
that were better than the movies and vice versa.

Another pair of movies coming out next Spring are Captain Marvel (starring
a female in the lead role) and Shazam! (with a youung boy playing Billy
Batson).  Guess which one I'm not going to watch.  (-:

 MP> Sometimes, Turner Classic Movies will play the original version. 

 MP> The book is my favorite and is written by my favorite author,
 MP> Raymond Chandler.  I would say I prefer the story in it a little
 MP> better, but it is difficult to beat Bogey and Bacall on-screen.  :)

I read somewhere that Chandler and the screenwriters had a little trouble
with the ending.  I read a lot of Mickey Spillane books back then.  They
were more interesting somehow.


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+ Pamela Bowman