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(Or almost, anyway...)I have one:
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe)
The book was almost the screenplay.
Also, every ambiguity and confusion in the movie, originated in the Marlowe text.
Could hardly believe it, when I finally read it... On a canyon vacation day above L.A., where both were set.
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Not sure because I didn't read the book, nor did I see the "film". However, I'm pretty sure that there wasn't much deviation from the book.
A fantastic read as well.
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The movie is peculiarly static and anodyne. I don't know how it could've come out that way with HST's involvement.
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FWIW, I think most of the film versions of Thomas Harris' books (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, even Black Sunday) do a reasonably good job of following the story line and intent of the book...Hanibal is one of those films I should have mentioned that the film improved upon (at least the ending was better!), imo.Of course, it's been some time since I read the books...so I could be completely wrong!
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I found it the closest to the book of any film I have seen.
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I saw it when it first hit our pulbic t.v. and picked up the book shortly afterward--it was like reading the script.
...are faithful both to the spirit and to the letter in the books.Regards
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The film also retained this anachronism: it's supposed to be 1932 but the narrator mentions Roosevelt's "nothing to fear but fear itself" quote, something he didn't say until 1933.
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