Re: RARA-AVIS: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown...

From: Cristoforo ( Cristoforo@mediaone.net)
Date: 19 Aug 2001


Jim wrote:

> *Farewell, My Lovely* (1975)
> *The Drowning Pool* (1975)
> *Shaft* (1971)
> *Shaft's Big Score* (1972)
> *Shaft in Africa* (1973 or '74)
> *Trouble Man* (1972 or '73)
> *VI Warshawski* (1991)
> *The Adventures of Ford Fairlane* (late '80s)
> *The Long Goodbye* (1973)
> *I, the Jury* (1983)
> *Charlie's Angels* (2001)
> *Shamus* (1972 or '73)
> *City Heat* (early '80s)
> *The Bodyguard* (1991 or '92)
> *Where's Marlowe?* (2001)
> *The Black Bird* (1973)
> *An Unsuitable Job for a Woman* (early to mid '80s)

> That's 18 just off the top of my head, not counting
> films that were based on PI novels (or at least on PI
> characters), that somehow turned into cop pictures
> when they reached the screen (e.g. *Eight Million Ways
> to Die* and *Shaft 2000*).

Yes, but how many of them are any good?

Brad

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