Re: RARA-AVIS: Charles Williams Films

From: Paul Sowle ( ambrosehunter@yahoo.com)
Date: 11 Jun 2001


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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