Just finished Martin Goldsmith's _Detour_. Along with
expunging the Sue Harvey/Hollywood sub-plot, all of the sex,
Haskell's weed habit, and some of the ambiguity about the
second crime, Goldsmith & Ulmer interestingly decided to
remove from the novel the main character's Jewishness. Al
Roberts in the film was Alex Roth in the novel, stage name
for Rothenberg. It reminded me of Nick Charles losing his
Greek name, Charalambides, in the Thin Man films, and got me
to wondering how many other characters have lost their
ethnicity in the transfer from page to screen in noir
adaptations.
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