In a message dated 1/25/01 12:11:21 AM,
buff@pobox.com writes:
<< I stopped half-way through and picked up THE WOMAN
CHASER (1960) , which I'd first read about six years ago and
had mostly forgotten.........
>>
The movie is available for rent, at the Hollywood Video
stores, and wil be on Showtime at some later date, then the
Independent Film Channel. Comparing apples & mangoes I
know, but it's the best of the three film adaptations of
Charles's books. What made the book hard for me to read was
the way Charles used one medium to comment on another, the
film-script material Bill refers to. The director and
producer of the movie used the material effectively by using
it sparely. Chet Wilson was terrific, crooked smile and all,
and the movie within a movie sequences were extremely well
done. The punch in Laura's belly, the scene that Bill quoted,
got the movie in trouble from the start. The start was the
New York Film Festival a year ago October, the first public
screening. Distributors and critics were much put off by that
scene. The current version omits it, but the commercial
damage was done and "The Woman Chaser" remains a minor motion
picture in terms of press and buzz and that everpresent
bottom line. European distributors are considering it now,
but say that European audiences think a movie titled "The
Woman Chaser" will be assumed to be tits & ass--am I
allowed to say that in this rarified atmosphere? So the
producer is thinking of changing the title to "The Director,"
which was Charles's original title for the book. Betsy
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