The DVD version of NIGHT & THE CITY comes out this month
from Criterion, who always do an excellent transfer with lots
of special features--they're also releasing Dassin's last
American film THIEVES' HIGHWAY, another film noir which is
supposedly quite good. They've been on something of hard
boiled/noirish roll as of late. Last month they issued
TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI by Jacques Becker, one of my favorite
French crime flicks, and Seijun Suzuki's YOUTH OF THE
BEAST
(a Yazuka classic from the Japanese Sam Fuller).
Max
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Steve Novak
<Cinefrog@c...> wrote:
> I¹m extremely glad to learn all this info abot Kersh
and to learn
also that
> a bio is forthcoming by Paul Duncan. Also very
interested by the
info
> concerning boxing legend Archie Moore that I
remember seeing on
French TV as
> a youngster and who had such a dramatic face...the
quintesential
fighter and
> in fact when I lived in Louisiana in 69 I met in New
Orleans
several old
> fighters for whom he remained a hero...
> The only book of Kersh I ever read was Night &
The City, and I had
come to
> the book through the magnificent J. Dassin film (the
best and
meanest film
> noir to my eyes) with brilliant performances of
Richard Widmark,
Francis L.
> Sullivan and Stanislaus Zbyszko as Gregorius the
Great, and the
story of the
> Polish wrestler/intellectual is worth reading since
it probably
inspired a
> lot of the Kersh
> story...(
http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=4243&p=1).
Stanislaus
> was inducted in the Wrestler¹s Hall of Fame in 2003
and I learned
about that
> in a French film magazine!!...
> I read in France as a younster the S鲩e Noire version
called ³Les
Forbans
> de la Nuit² (SN480), translated by S. Henry and R.
Amblard, which
I still
> have, and about 20 years ago bought a copy of the
Dell Book (#374)
at a
> second hand bookstore in a small town in Michigan.
This version has
a
> picture from the film on the cover and a map of
Œunderworld London¹
on the
> back with a complete list of the locations mentioned
in the story
such as
> the Silver Fox Club or Fabian Promotions or East
& West Caf鮮..
> I bought a cassette of the Dassin film on e-Bay for
about $5.00, 6
months
> ago since there are yet no DVD¹s of this magnificent
film. The 92
version is
> farce, and a sad reminder that a sometimes
interesting Producer
should
> remain on the phone and not behind the camera...poor
Jessica Lange
> participated (that¹s the best one can say in that
case) to this
debacle
> which has one redeeming value: the presence of Eli
Wallach....
>
> Steve Novak
> le Montois de D鴲oit
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