--- Stephen Burridge <
stephen.burridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is a classic of
its
> kind (not hard-boiled
> or noir) and I'd say it's highly arguable
whether
> the excellent and quite
> different Hitchcock film is superior.
>
> Speaking of mid-1930s Hitchcock, how about
his
> adaptation of Conrad's "The
> Secret Agent", i.e. "Sabotage" (1936)? I
certainly
> wouldn't say it's better
> than the novel, but it's quite a movie, in
my
> opinion.
>
All of those films are in "The MacGuffin Vanishes: Notes on
Hitchcock" on my website. You might want to read "Sabotage"
since it's the essay that I pretty much had the most fun
with. My only regret is that I couldn't find the book Vertigo
was based on. So if it's Hitchcock, I been there, done
that.
Thanks,
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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