Re: RARA-AVIS: Richard Powell

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


Bill,

> SHOOT IF YOU MUST is a '40s title by Powell that's
> pretty
> good, though not very hardboiled. Fast and funny,
> though.
> Like a lot of Powell.

This wouldn't be the name that a certain Busby Berkeley song-and-dance man-turned-movie-tough-guy used to write books, would it?

Not a serious question, of course, but it's an interesting coincidence, particularly since Dick Powell was the best Marlowe in the movies, and there's been an ongoing discussion of Chandler's influence.

JIM DOHERTY

 

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