Hammett, Chandler, Cain: the modern mystery thriller starts with them. They are the godfathers of that sensibility that would come to be called noir which would, in time, overflow the printed page and onto the stage, the big screen, and eventually even to television. Identified primarily with mysteries, the concept of flawed human beings ethically tripping and stumbling in a moral No Man’s Land, equidistant between Right and Wrong, Good and Bad would bleed across genre lines. There would be noir Westerns (Blood on the Moon, 1948), noir war movies (Attack!, 1956), noir horror (The Body Snatcher, 1945), even noir melodramas like Cain’s own Mildred Pierce, adapted for the screen in 1945.
But they all started with what Hammett, Chandler, and Cain did on the page, and each provided an evolutionary step which took what had once been usually dismissed as a flyweight genre dedicated to colorful private investigators and clever puzzles,...
But they all started with what Hammett, Chandler, and Cain did on the page, and each provided an evolutionary step which took what had once been usually dismissed as a flyweight genre dedicated to colorful private investigators and clever puzzles,...
- 9/19/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Today, on the day I discovered that a shitload of Gil Brewer books have been re-issued by Prologue Books for the kindle (with some pretty average covers to be honest, except for possibly The Brat – amazing what a Meiko Kaji hat will do for a chick in lingerie), Amazon execs high-five each other with the news that certain publishers alleged attempts at eBook price fixing has been smashed by the Us Justice Department.
I mention the Brewer eBooks for two reasons:
He is my absolute personal favourite of the old-time pulpsters, and I kind of want to be the Australian him (without the crippling alcoholism) and I haven’t read several of these releases Prologue Books are selling the Brewer books for $3.19.
At $3.19, I have to admit, these people are pushing it. I worship Brewer, but I am a bit of a tight arse when it comes to eBooks (not just eBooks.
I mention the Brewer eBooks for two reasons:
He is my absolute personal favourite of the old-time pulpsters, and I kind of want to be the Australian him (without the crippling alcoholism) and I haven’t read several of these releases Prologue Books are selling the Brewer books for $3.19.
At $3.19, I have to admit, these people are pushing it. I worship Brewer, but I am a bit of a tight arse when it comes to eBooks (not just eBooks.
- 4/12/2012
- by Cameron Ashley
- Boomtron
PARIS -- Veteran French director Jean-Pierre Mocky said Thursday that Harvey Keitel, John Malkovich and Jeanne Moreau have been lined up to star in his first-ever English-language film, 13 French Street. The film will be based on American author Gil Brewer's best-selling 1960s novel. Known for his iconoclastic and quirky films, the director says he's "sick and tired of France," where he has made 45 films, and is looking forward to shooting his next project in London and Oslo, Norway, starting early next year.
- 10/31/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Joy Bryant, Gina Gershon, Desmond Harrington, Ali Larter and Dominic Purcell will star in Hyperion Pictures' Three Way Split for director Scott Ziehl. The suspense drama will begin shooting June 8 in Los Angeles. The project is based on Gil Brewer's 1963 pulp novel Wild to Possess, described as a darkly comic story of murder, kidnapping, blackmail and sexual deception. Russell Marleau adapted the script, which he will also produce with Christian Mills. This is the first production greenlighted under the first-look producing deal Marleau and Mills signed with Hyperion last year. Hyperion principals Kurt Albrecht, Tom Wilhite and Willard Carroll will executive produce with Brainstorm Media's Meyer Shwarzstein. Richard Middleton is the co-producer.
- 5/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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