Which Lionel White novel did Hubert Cornfield adapt? PLUNDER
ROAD almost feels like one of White's capers gone wrong. Have
you seen LURE OF THE SWAMP? It's got quite a bad rep, but I'd
seek it out if someone recommended it.
Thanks, ambrosehunter
--- Juri Nummelin <
jurnum@utu.fi> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Etienne Borgers
wrote:
>
> > Yep! French title: PEAU DE BANANE (title
taken
> from
> > the French translation of the novel)- issued
in
> the
> > USA as BANANA PEEL- 1963 by Marcel
Ophuls.
>
> The son of Max Ophuls, by the way.
>
> > > 2.) 3rd Voice(Based on ALL THE WAY)(From
the
> same
> > > director as the marvelous PLUNDER
ROAD)
>
> It was Hubert Cornfield, who must've had some
kind
> of insight into the
> paperback world: he directed Williams, Lionel
White
> and Gil Brewer
> ("Lure of the Swamp").
>
> [Joy House]
> > As said in other messages, a film by Rene
Clement,
> top
> > director of other very good French noir
films,
> and..
> > far from being forgotten for them!
>
> I've always thought that he is remembered only
for
> the children-in-war
> film, what's its name?
>
> > Title: LES FELINS - 1964 (In the USA: Joy
House)
> > Good film, on par with the novel and
excellent
> dialog
> > by Williams-
>
> What novel of Day Keene's is that?
>
> > >Also, I know that THE DIAMOND BIKINI was
issued
> as
> > > part of the Blue Murder series.
> > Became a French film: FANTASIA CHEZ LES
PLOUCS-
> 1971,
> > by Gerard Pires
>
> Isn't Pires the guy who directed the Luc
Besson
> produced films, "Taxi"
> and "Taxi 2"?
>
> > Among the other films based on
Williams:
> > a couple of telefilms for French cable TV,
an
> > Australian sea thriller with Nicole Kidman, one
by
> > Truffaut, one by Claude Sautet (this
French
> creator is
> > unjustly forgotten as prime noir film
director,
> and is
> > remembered only for his later lame
sociological
> > dramas)...etc
>
> And don't forget Orson Welles's "The Deep", based
on
> the same "Dead
> Calm" as the Australian picture. It never got
ready,
> but I think someday
> it will be released on DVD or something like that.
I
> hope it will.
>
> Juri
>
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