Thought i'd mention that The Killers is showing on TCM on
June 23rd (a week from this saturday) at 8 a.m., in case
anyone wants to see it or tape it.
d.a.
--- JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Miker,
>
> One of my all-time favorites, one of the
things
> that's
> overlooked about THE KILLERS is that it's one of
the
> best PI films of the '40's. And also a damned
good
> caper movie, on a par with THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
and
> THE
> KILLING.
>
> It's basically an original screenplay, except
for
> the
> first 20 or so minutes which is a very
faithful
> dramatization of Hemingway's short story,
but
> Anthony
> Veiller, the script-writer, treats that
source
> material as though it was the first chapter of
a
> novel
> rather than a self-contained work, and then go on
to
> write that novel.
>
> The hero of that "novel," is insurance
investigator
> Jim Reardon, who puts together the victim's
past
> life
> (CITIZEN KANE-style), and manages to solve a
long
> unsolved crime in the process, the long-ago
payroll
> robbery of a factory.
>
> I've always wondered whether Edmund O'Brien's
turn
> as
> the claims cop might have been what got him hired
as
> the first actor (or at least one of the first)
to
> play
> the title role of "America's Free-Lance
Insurance
> Investigator" on the best of all radio private
eye
> shows, YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
>
>
>
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