"Richard Webb -> Bob Klahn"  wrote in news:29928
$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 RW> GOulart, yah i seem to remember a couple of his.
 RW> Edward E. Smith, some of those would have made great movies
 RW> if you could figure out how to do the special effects.  Lots of blow
 RW> stuff up and melt it with energy beams, etc.

One of Doc Smith's books, "Lensman" was made into an anime (Japanese
animation) movie.

And was pretty much butchered in the process, hardly any of the original
book is in the movie.
HOWEVER...

It is a pretty good movie on it's own.

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