On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Etienne Borgers wrote:
> Yep! French title: PEAU DE BANANE (title taken
from
> the French translation of the novel)- issued in
the
> USA as BANANA PEEL- 1963 by Marcel
Ophuls.
The son of Max Ophuls, by the way.
> > 2.) 3rd Voice(Based on ALL THE WAY)(From the
same
> > director as the marvelous PLUNDER
ROAD)
It was Hubert Cornfield, who must've had some kind of insight
into the paperback world: he directed Williams, Lionel White
and Gil Brewer
("Lure of the Swamp").
[Joy House]
> As said in other messages, a film by Rene Clement,
top
> director of other very good French noir films,
and..
> far from being forgotten for them!
I've always thought that he is remembered only for the
children-in-war film, what's its name?
> Title: LES FELINS - 1964 (In the USA: Joy
House)
> Good film, on par with the novel and excellent
dialog
> by Williams-
What novel of Day Keene's is that?
> >Also, I know that THE DIAMOND BIKINI was issued
as
> > part of the Blue Murder series.
> Became a French film: FANTASIA CHEZ LES PLOUCS-
1971,
> by Gerard Pires
Isn't Pires the guy who directed the Luc Besson produced
films, "Taxi" and "Taxi 2"?
> Among the other films based on Williams:
> a couple of telefilms for French cable TV,
an
> Australian sea thriller with Nicole Kidman, one
by
> Truffaut, one by Claude Sautet (this French creator
is
> unjustly forgotten as prime noir film director, and
is
> remembered only for his later lame
sociological
> dramas)...etc
And don't forget Orson Welles's "The Deep", based on the same
"Dead Calm" as the Australian picture. It never got ready,
but I think someday it will be released on DVD or something
like that. I hope it will.
Juri
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