> on 7/1/03 8:48 AM, Kevin Burton Smith at
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com
> wrote:
>
> "{...] As it was, MARLOWE just came off as a little
too 1960s-pseudo-groovy.
> And what was Kato doing there? Was the Green Hornet
sick that day?"
That
picture had a lot of problems, notably Paul Bogart as a
director-for-*film*
and its attempt to tell a '40s-ish story in a
1969
setting.
Still
and all, it did have a great Rita Moreno performce as
the
stripper
plus
-- (mild
"spoilers") --
that
marvellous strip/interrogation/death scene for Moreno
when
she's
questioned by Garner and then shot onstage.
Line
of Moreno's that I especially love: "The streets are
*paved* with
forgotten husbands!"
Chris
P.S. The
script is credited to Stirling Silliphant, who wrote
two Don
Siegel pictures (THE LINEUP, TELEFON) plus Jacques
Tourneur's
Goodis adaptation (NIGHTFALL) and the 1983 TV
adaptation
of JDM's
EMPTY COPPER SEA. Nor should we forget IN THE HEAT OF
THE
NIGHT or a
good little Phil Karlson-directed caper film entitled
5 AGAINST THE
HOUSE.
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