> On 25 Jan 2002, Ian Galbraith wrote
> it also has elements of Love's Lovely Counterfeit by
James M. Cain
I thought I might throw in a mention, since I subscribed to
Rara Avis as an indirect result of acquiring a copy of Love's
Lovely Counterfeit, of the film version of Love's Lovely
Counterfeit, the wild and wacky Slightly Scarlet. (Director:
Allan Dwan; script: Robert Blees; director of photography:
John Alton: prominent actors: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming,
Arlene Dahl, Ted de Corsia).
One could say that Arlene Dahl, with her red hair and her
leopard-skin bathing suit and her vicious speargun, is at
least as good an icon of mid-'50s id as The Creature from the
Black Lagoon.
In any case, it's an intriguing anomaly in that the source
(Cain) and the themes and the actors (Payne, Fleming, de
Corsia) are so clearly noir-connected, and yet the visual
style is one of Superscope and blazing Technicolor.
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(Note: Yes, this is my first posting. I'm more familiar with
noir-on-the-screen than noir-on-the-page, as a rule. But
that's a situation that can be remedied, no?)
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