Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Crying Out Loud in the Wrong Direction

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 30 Oct 2007


William wrote:

What a grand job he did and how easily a book can be slim and unnecessary campared to the Huston version. an odd take or two on elements of the book but they're the other two versions of The Maltese Falcon.

Except Spade, to Bogart movie viewers, can never be a "pleasant blond Satan," & so the entire Faust angle is out the window._,_._,___

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