Re: RARA-AVIS: The Old Man

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Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Old Man
From: Katherine Ann Harper <kharper@BGNet.bgsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:01:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rikke & Hanne Kesten wrote:

> Katherine:  For what it's worth, in a screenplay of RED HARVEST by 
> Bernardo Bertolucci he named the old man "Elihu Willsson" who "owns 
> Personville -- heart soul skin and guts."
>   Since he seems to have followed the story quite accurately in the 
> screenplay this may be a clue for you.

Rikke:

You're right about Elihu Wilson being an old man, but he's one of the
*villains* of _Red Harvest_.  The character known as "The Old Man," on the
other hand, is the Op's employer, the chief of the San Francisco branch of
the Continental Detective Agency. From the off-list responses I've had so
far, it looks like he was never referred to by name. 

Thanks for responding!

Kathy

Katherine Harper
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/

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