> It also has the wonderful add-on of being based on
a
> novel (by Lionel
> White), and featuring a great crime fiction
author
> as a co-screenwriter
> (Jim Thompson), a feat only trumped by Billy
Wilder
> when he had Raymond
> Chandler as a screewriter for James Cain's
Double
> Indemnity.
>
Oddly, Jim Thompson also worked on Spartacus. And Chandler's
script for Strangers On A Train was tossed by Hitchcock even
though Chandler still got the screen credit.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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