>
> David Thomson (Biographical Dictionary of Film)
notes that Kurosawa did a
McBain
> adaptation before High and Low (1963). "Kurosawa's
eminence led in the
late
> 1950s to his forming his own production company.
'The Bad Sleep Well,'
his
> first independent venure, was based on Ed McBain and
it was enjoyable for
the
> way Warner Brothers of the 1940s was turned into
Tokyo 1960. But the
contrivance
> was weird and unsettling."
>
> Anyone familiar with this title?
>
I know the film, but this is the first I've heard of it being
based on a McBain. Most references suggest a connection to
"Hamlet," which I don't think McBain wrote. There's nothing
in the credits reflecting a McBain connection. The story is
about corruption at the highest levels of business, and a
son's revenge for the murder of his father years before by
corporate forces.
Jim Beaver
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