On Wed Sep-26-2018 18:18, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to ROGER NELSON:

>  MP> Of course, then again, the best version of The Maltese Falcon was
>  MP> the second or third attempt at it.  So, I am OK with remaking a
>  MP> movie that wasn't so good to begin with.  :)

> The 3rd one with "Bogey" is the one I like.  That part (the
3rd film) was
> originally offered to George Raft, who turned it down.

 MP> That is the one.  I am not a big fan of Raft.  On the other hand, I
 MP> like some Bogart movies that he did not even like playing in.

Too numerous to mention of "Bogey's" films, here are three of my favorites:

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

 MP> I have read the book and that adaptation does not differ too much
 MP> from it. That was John Huston's first big movie, but you'd never
 MP> know it just by watching it.

I usually find the movie better than the book.  Rarely is it the other way
around.  Case in point is James Lee Burke's Heaven's Prisoners.  I really
liked the movie and loathed the book because of Burke's fondness for
describing the flora and the fawna, which put me in a state of
unconsciousness.


Regards,

Roger 
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