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   From: jayembeenospam@snurcher.com   
      
   Audie Murphy's Ghost  wrote:   
      
   > David Matthews  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I once saw an episode of 77 Sunset Strip (another Warners series)   
   >>> that redid Strangers On A Train, with no credit to Hitchcock,   
   >>> Chandler or Highsmith....   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I remember that. I was surprised at it but I guess Warners owned   
   >> the property outright so could do what they liked with it.   
   >> According to Hitchcock very little of Chandler's work remained   
   >> in the final screenplay for the original movie version.   
   >   
   > This happens all the time. I saw an episode of "Okovango" (an   
   > Aussie series that ran on FX briefly after launch) that precisely   
   > duplicated "Old Yeller"   
      
   And another: the second episode of THE EQUALIZER, "China Rain" was   
   lifted from Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW, which itself was based (with   
   credit) to the Ed McBain novel KING'S RANSOM.   
      
   And then they are all the variations of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and   
   RASHOMON to consider...   
      
   -- jayembee   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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