Re: RARA-AVIS: Speaking of Newman movies...and Ross Macdonald...

From: Doug Bassett ( dj_bassett@yahoo.com)
Date: 07 Jun 2001


I liked HARPER too, though I agree, it doesn't have the feel of a R. Macdonald novel. But then, MOVING TARGET isn't typical of Macdonald's work, either.

doug
--- Bill Crider < abc@wt.net> wrote:
> I liked HARPER, but I knew from the first scene that
> it wasn't going to be
> a movie about the Lew Archer I'd met in the novels.
> Anyway, no movie with
> Strother Martin can be all bad.
>
> And speaking of offensive mugging, at least Newman
> didn't play Archer like
> Dean Martin played Matt Helm.
>
> Bill Crider
>
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