Re: RARA-AVIS: hem's killers spoiler

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 13 Mar 2002

Mike,

Re your comment below:

> hi jim! i think someone earlier said that it
> [the film version of THE KILLERS] was
> sort
> of a combo of both, and that it faithfully followed
> the
> story all the way thru, and then branched off into
> entirely new material.

That's exactly what it was. It treated the short story as if it was the first chapter of a novel rather than a self-contained story.

And as Rene said, it is a damned fine movie! One of the best crime films of the '40s.

I took issue with Rene's comment that the film had
"nothing to do" with the story. No one who has seen the first twenty minutes of the film could say that it has "nothing" to do with the story.

JIM DOHERTY

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