Mark,
Re your comment below:
"While narratively inexplicable, even ridiculous, it
[setting Mitchum's version of THE BIG SLEEP in London] is
easily understood by film business standards -- didn't the
financing come from England, with the proviso that it be made
there? Money vs. Art, wonder which one Hollywood's going to
go with?"
If the financing, etc., came from England, you can hardly
blame Hollywood, but I infer that, by
"Hollywood," you mean the film business in general.
Nevertheless, while you're point is well-taken, it's one
thing to shoot a movie in England, and quite something else
to SET it in England.
IIRC, the PHILIP MARLOWE - PRIVATE EYE TV series that ran on
HBO in the early '80's (which I quite liked despite Powers
Boothe's ill-fitting fedora), was at least partly filmed in
England, but it was still set in Southern California.
And, by the same token, movies like the Ingrid Bergman
version of GASLIGHT, and, just to keep things
ever-so-slightly on the thread's topic, the Jack Palance
version of THE LODGER (was it called THE MAN IN THE ATTIC?)
were filmed in Hollywood, but set in London.
They've got big honking film studios in London, and a good
chunk of the film takes place indoors. How hard would it have
been to set the film in Los Angeles, wherever it was actually
set?
JIM DOHERTY
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