--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, JT Lindroos <juha@...>
wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I remember Thompson working on Paths of Glory. Of
course there's
Leigh
> Brackett working on Chandler in both Long Goodbye
and The Big
Sleep,
> and Donald Westlake working on Thompson in The
Grifters. All
> spectacular successes.
>
> JT
>
> JT Lindroos
> Senior Editor
> Point Blank Press
>
I agree with JT, Mr. T, and other on this one--all great
movies, Paths of Glory might be my favorite movie along with
The Third Man and McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Sterling
Hayden was terrific in The Killing and Long Goodbye.
-Dave Z.
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