james.doherty@gsa.gov
18 Jun 99 09:45:00 -0400
Re Terrill'l post below:
"A public thank you to Mark
Sullivan for bringing attention to THE
PHENIX CITY STORY on CINEMAX
yesterday. I've wanted to see that movie
for years and it did not
disappoint. Quite an amazing picture for its
time.
"I'm also very surprised at how
similar the picture was to the same
director's later film (almost
20 years later!) WALKING TALL. Phil
Karlson was one of those
workhorses that explored similar themes over
and over . . ."
Over the weekend I saw *The
Scarface Mob*. This was the theatrical
release title of the *Desilu
Playhouse* presentation "The
Untouchables" which became a
back-door pilot for the subsequent series
series.
Phil Karlson also directed *The
Scarface Mob*, which is in most ways
equal to, and in some ways
superior to the DePalma 1987 remake. It is
certainly sticks much closer to
the real life events.
If *Phenix City* and *Walking
Tall* both deal with rural areas in the
grip of organized crime, *The
Scarface Mob* is one of the best studies
of an urban area so encumbered,
and might be considered the middle
opus of a
"one-man-against-the-mob" tryptich. - Jim Doherty
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