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 Message 756 
 Mike Powell to ROGER NELSON 
 Sad Day 
 30 Sep 18 19:31:00 
 
> The Left Hand of God.  I don't think Beat the Devil haar Gene Tierney in it.

That'd be the one then.  :)

> >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> Shazam!??  :)
> Want another guess?  (-:

I actually mis-read it the first time and was guessing which one you WOULD
watch.  LOL, I see my error now.  If I had to choose one of them, it would
also be that one.

>  MP> I am not sure they had trouble with the ending (other than it did
>  MP> not at all match what was in the book) but, at one point, they
>  MP> asked him who was responsible for one of the deaths in the book.
>  MP> He realized that he did not know!  It turned out not to be
>  MP> significant to the overall storyline and apparently remained
>  MP> unsolved when the book was completed.  :)
> Maybe it's some other Sam Spade movie I'm thinking of then.  Many of my books
> dissaopeared around August 2005.

The Maltese Falcon was a Sam Spade movie, and a Dashiel Hammett (sp?) book.
 The Big Sleep was a Philip Marlowe movie, and a Raymond Chandler book.  I
think they are easy to confuse because Bogart played both Sam and Phil.
After seeing Bogart play Marlowe, Chandler supposedly thought he was the
best one to have played him (even though he was not crazy about some of the
story line changes).

Two of my favorite movies and books.  :)

Mike

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