Re: RARA-AVIS: Harper about to come on - TCM

From: James Michael Rogers (jeddak5@cox.net)
Date: 21 Aug 2010

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    Personally, I rather liked both of the Newman flicks. Particularly "Drowning Pool". Naybe I'm just not enough of an Archer fan for the changes to offend me. Conversely, I really didn't like the Mitchum as Marlowe films. I'll take Dick Powell, thanks.

    James

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      From: Patrick Kennedy
      To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
      Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 17:28
      Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Harper about to come on - TCM

        
      They're showing 'The Drowning Pool' on a UK television station next week. I saw
      it on its first release but can't recall much about it now -- not a good sign,
      usually.
      'Harper' was released here as 'The Moving Target' which I believe was the title
      of the Ross MacDonald Lew Archer novel upon which it was based. I never could
      understand the reasoning behind the name change for movie purposes, but no doubt
      those clever all-knowing marketing guys had their reasons.
      I think originally the makers had intended adapting Chandler's 'The Long
      Goodbye' with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe but failed to get the green light on the
      project, so they made 'The Moving Target' instead with Paul Newman not
      resembling Lew Archer any more than Elliott Gould did Marlowe in Robert Altman's
      art movie subversion of Chandler's themes.

      Patrick

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      From: "funkmasterj@runbox.com" <funkmasterj@runbox.com>
      To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
      Sent: Sat, 21 August, 2010 22:25:14
      Subject: RARA-AVIS: Harper about to come on - TCM

      It will be my first time seeing it. I did enjoy Twilight.

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