> While narratively inexplicable, even
ridiculous,
> it's 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?
>
> Mark
Sure, but the movie would have made real money if it had been
good. It relied on the tough guy star power of Mitchum
entirely. The movie needs to be remade because the Hays
office cut all the most important parts of the story out. The
Stearnwood sister needed to be naked when Marlow finds her in
the bungalo. That's the only reason she could be blackmailed
for those pictures. That was the improvement the Mitchum
vehicle added but the story made no sense at all in England
and completely undermined Chandler's edgy 1940's LA plot. If
they wanted to spin their own story off Chandler's story
line, that might have worked. But if they're trying to sell
people like me, who love Chandler and Mitchum, all their
project is going to do is piss me off. Who did they intend to
make money off of with that hatchet job?
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