On Thu Sep-27-2018 17:48, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to ROGER NELSON:   
      
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    MP> To Have and Have Not would be on my list, too.  I like those other   
    MP> two also, but they are not my favorites.  I would also include:   
      
    MP> Casablanca   
    MP> The Maltese Falcon   
    MP> The Big Sleep   
    MP> We're No Angels (my favorite Christmas movie)   
    MP> The Petrified Forest   
    MP> Dead Reckoning   
      
   Good choices all.  What was the one where he had to pretend to be a priest?    
   I've forgotten the title.   
      
    MP> As for books vs. movies, I really like the movie The Big Sleep, but   
    MP> I also like the book.  There were actually two versions of The Big   
    MP> Sleep.  The first was filmed before the war ended and was closer to   
    MP> the book.  However, the studio wanted to get its war films out   
    MP> before the war ended, so it got shelved.  In the meantime, Laren   
    MP> Bacall got a part in a movie with a horrible French actor.  It   
    MP> tanked.  So, they reshot and replaced several scenes in The Big   
    MP> Sleep to play on the chemistry she had with Bogart. Howard Hawks   
    MP> did not want her career tanking with the bad movie!    
      
   The one that came the closest was 2001: A Space Odyssey, because the movie and   
   the book were written at the same time (or close to it).  Also, I have seen   
   trailers (I don't like that name because they are really previews) that were   
   better than the movies and vice versa.   
      
   Another pair of movies coming out next Spring are Captain Marvel (starring a   
   female in the lead role) and Shazam! (with a youung boy playing Billy   
   Batson).  Guess which one I'm not going to watch.  (-:   
      
    MP> Sometimes, Turner Classic Movies will play the original version.    
      
    MP> The book is my favorite and is written by my favorite author,   
    MP> Raymond Chandler.  I would say I prefer the story in it a little   
    MP> better, but it is difficult to beat Bogey and Bacall on-screen.  :)   
      
   I read somewhere that Chandler and the screenwriters had a little trouble with   
   the ending.  I read a lot of Mickey Spillane books back then.  They were more   
   interesting somehow.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+ Pamela Bowman   
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