Bruce Townley (btownley@sirius.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:43:46 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 at 08:56 Mark Sullivan sent: Re:
RARA-AVIS: Goodis adaptations (was Hitchcock &
Leonard)
>Speaking of Goodis adaptations, not to mention
directors past their
>prime, one of, if not the last film of Samuel
Fuller's was an absolutely
>horrendous adaptation of Street of No Return, a
shoddy production made
>in Germany (I think), starring Keith Carradine as a
fallen rock star.
>Just terrible.
Terrible's the word. I'd rather go to the dentist then have
to sit through STREET OF NO RETURN again. More's the pity,
when you consider that Fuller made PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET so
many years earlier, it <really> hit the spot.
Bruce T. = btownley@sirius.com
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