In a message dated 12/4/2002 12:41:14 PM Eastern Standard
Time,
jumblejim@prodigy.net writes:
> But the '77 version
> of THE BIG SLEEP is an unmitigated
disaster.
You know, it's been years since I saw it, but I didn't think
it was that bad. Of course I agree that the original and the
Mitchum "FAREWELL, MY LOVELY" are much better. I also saw THE
LONG GOODBYE but for some reason it didn't make much of any
impression. I need to check it out again (as well as re-read
the book - it's the only Marlowe I haven't re-read since the
70's).
I did think moving the setting to Britain for TBS was a major
mistake, and Mitchum probably was a little too old by the
time he made the re-make, but I remember liking Jimmy Stewart
in the role of the General: "Yes, my girls have all the usual
vices."
Steven
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