The movie was entitled CUTTER'S WAY and the plot and the
characters of the movie are not very similar to the book.
Mark
--- Terrill Lankford <
lankford2000@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >
> >I just reread his masterpiece _Cutter and
Bone_,
> after finding it in a
> >box of miscellaneous crime stuff. This has got
to
> be one of the best
> >hardboiled novels of all time. This second
time
> around it seemed even
> >better. I am going to have to revise my Top Ten
to
> include it. It
> >deserves it. And the other Thornburgs are not
far
> behind: not a
> >prolific author but one who worked at a very
high
> level. You can file
> >Thornburg with Willeford, he's that
good.
> >
>
>
> Couldn't agree with you more, mrt. Thornburg is
a
> true original. A terrific writer who appears to
be
> nearly forgotten now. I know CUTTER AND BONE
was
> reissued about a decade ago, but I think most of
his
> other books are now out of print. Someone
should
> come along and do trade paperbacks of all of
them
> and get this guy the attention he
deserves.
>
> Thornburg didn't much like the movie made
from
> CUTTER AND BONE, but it's on my top five movies
of
> all time list. And it's how I discovered him as
a
> writer. I think both the movie and the book
are
> stone cold classics.
>
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