At 12:01 PM 12/30/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Goodis's books have been described as being
long
>suicide notes. His post-Hollywood
paperback
>originals, set in an unnamed Philadelphia, are
elegies
>of tragic lives with little to no
redemption.
>
>Dark Passage is different. More of a suspense
novel,
>it is less bleak and poetic, but still a good
yarn.
>An innocent man, framed for his wife's murder,
escapes
>from prison, alters his appearance through surgery
and
>sets out to clear his name.
>
>Goodis, in his last few years, litigated the
producers
>of the TV show The Fugitive for plagiarizing
Dark
>Passage and won a settlement.
>
>I had held back on reading Dark Passage after
seeing
>the Bogart film on late-night cable. The
film
>employed a camera-as-first-person perspective for
the
>first twenty minutes until the bandages came
off
>revealing Bogart's mug.
The Bogart/Bacall angle and the fabulous Agnes Morehead's
window jumping scene notwithstanding, the film is terrible. A
real disappointment to this long-time Bogart fan.
All the Best,
Brian
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