It was a somewhat unengaging television 2-part miniseries,
syndicated in the US in the late '70s.
I took the original question to be, what movies are better
than the books they're based on? In HB, so far, I'm having
difficulty thinking of a solid example, though the first THE
KILLERS is a bit better than Hemingway's story. Certainly not
even the excellent adaptations of Hammett and Chandler
surpass the books for me; Ross Macdonald's were much more
poorly served in film; Jim Thompson's ranged widely...Robert
Bloch's books (and scripts) were better than the films made
from them... TM
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Thornton [mailto:
tieresias@worldnet.att.net]
Perhaps someone will do a decent adaptation of
"The Dain Curse". To my knowledge it has never been
translated to film.
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