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>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:47:36 -0400
>From: "Michael Robison" <
zspider@gte.net>
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: capers and/or cons: Cape
Fear
>
>I got one that's based on a book! Watched Robert
Mitchum and Gregory
>Peck in Cape Fear last night. Great movie. Intense.
Mitchum is a great
>bad guy. Who else could smirk like him? I saw the
later version with Nick
>Nolte a long time ago, and it was interesting to see
that they copied the
>original movie with a houseboat ending. I thought
that both the movie
>endings were better than the book's. I liked JDM's
CAPE FEAR except
>the ending. I thought it was a bit of a letdown,
which surprised me after
>the heart-pounding ending to THE DEEP BLUE
GOODBYE.
>
>miker
To totally nitpick, JDM never wrote a book titled "Cape
Fear".
Rather his "The Executioners" was re-titled after the initial
(best) movie was made, as publishers delight in doing.
Can't lay hands on my copy of "The Red-Hot Typewriter" at
this moment, but, iirc, "The Executioners" was the result of
a bet that JDM had with McKinley Kantor: That he (JDM)
couldn't write a "mainstream bestseller" in less than thirty
days....
I don't know if Kantor paid up, but I'd say JDM won that
particular wager...
-- Bill Bowers
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