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     Aug wrote --   
      
   > this one was NOT as effective as the book. In the book, you get a much     
   > better sense of his growing obsession with the missing Laura. In     
   > the film, there is far too much of going for the booze and     
   > "wanna cigarette?" to fill in the apparently moody and     
   > thoughtful moments that would be "explained" in the book.   
      
     Movies seldom follow the book they are based on.   
     Plus, in a book it will take paragraphs to explain something that in a   
   film is a look/glance, movement, etc, is all it takes to convey the situation.   
      
   >  JM>   At times Vincent Price was a bit a hammy.  To me that was   
   >  JM>   part of his style.   
   >    
   > True.  But he found his niche in horror films in the 50's.   
      
     A lot of A and B actors of the '30s and '40s wound up doing horror type   
   films.  Films they wouldn't have touched during "their day".   
     Price always seemed the perfect fit for just about every part he played.    
   He could be witty and charming, or sinister.  Sometimes both at once.    
     He really hammed it in the Hammer Poe movies.  (Often with those the only   
   part of Poe that was used was the title).   
     He, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were always good in whatever part they   
   had in those and could really let go and let the ham fly, with a wink and a   
   nod.  :)   
       
   > Myself, I would say that the Canadian novelist Peter Robinson resembles me   
      
     I used to be mistaken for Tom Cruise and later Matt Damon, but I kept   
   telling everyone no, I'm taller than they are.  :)   
     Joe   
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