Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / Nightmare ... / I Married a Dead Man (Library of America) Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1557616 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1557616 N2 - {Literature and film buffs will be delighted by this collection of pulp novels, most of which were made into important films. James M. Cain's <i>The Postman Always Rings Twice</i> is a literary masterpiece with its spare prose invoking a savage, sexy, desperate world. It inspired no less than three great movies: Luchino Visconti's classic <i>Ossessione</i>, in 1942; the 1946 remake, starring John Garfield and Lana Turner and directed by the extraordinary Tay Garnett; and Bob Rafelson's underrated 1981 version with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. When you read the magnificent source for these movies, you'll be astonished at how three different incarnations could all, in their own ways, be faithful to the novel. <p> Cornell Woolrich's <i>I Married a Dead Man</i> also became three movies: <i>No Man of Her Own</i>, with Barbara Stanwyk; the French <i>I Married a Shadow</i>; and the American comedy, <i>Mrs. Winterborne</i>, which starred Shirley MacLaine and Ricki Lake. Edward Anderson's vivid <i>Thieves Like Us</i> was transformed into <i>They Live by Night</i>, Nicholas Ray's first important movie and one of the seminal noir films of the 1940s. It was brilliantly remade in 1974 by the great revisionist director Robert Altman. Kenneth Fearing's <i>The Big Clock</i> was transformed into a marvelous film starring Charles Laughton; 40 years later, the same source, retitled <i>No Way Out</i>, brought Kevin Costner to stardom. William Lindsay Gresham's <i>Nightmare Alley</i> was the source for Tyrone Power's best movie; Horace McCoy's experimental <i>They Shoot Horses, Don't They?</i> became one of the seminal films of the 1960s. <p> These dark, evocative novels, when taken together, are a fascinating study of how words can inspire a magnificent variety of cinematic images and styles. } SN - 1883011469 TI - Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / Nightmare ... / I Married a Dead Man (Library of America) PB - {Library of America} KW - film KW - noir AU - Mccoy, Horace AU - Fearing, Kenneth AU - Gresham, William AU - Woolrich, Cornell AU - Cain, James AU - Anderson, Edward PY - 1997/09/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/1883011469 ER -