Later, however, I decided to see it again, look at it as a
film in its
own right instead of as an adaptation of my favorite Chandler
novel. It
is now a favorite film of mine, to such a degree that when I
later saw
it on TV and they cut the ending (at that time you couldn't
show someone
getting away with a crime) so it was more like Chandler's
ending I was
as outraged by the way they ruined the film as I had once
been outraged
by the way the film ruined the book.
Just a note, Leigh Brackett wrote the screenplay to Long
Goodbye, as she
had 27 years earlier co-written the script for Big Sleep. In
checking
the dates, I just found out she also co-wrote Rio Bravo, one
of my
favorite westerns.
Mark
#
# To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
majordomo@icomm.ca.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/.