In Reply to: RE: The best film noir ever, but a victim of the Production Code. Warning - spoilers posted by dancingseamonkey on February 1, 2014 at 16:46:33:
and it is a classic. One can read it in a couple of hours. I read it every couple of years. Camus cited it as a major influence on The Stranger.
The movie script however, was not written by James M. Cain. It was written by Raymond Chandler, and it is brilliant in its own way. It is one of the very best of the noirs.
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- the novel was written by James M. Cain... - tunenut 20:48:49 02/01/14 (2)
- Righto! Cain and Chandler, could it get any better? nt - tinear 10:32:20 02/02/14 (1)
- Yes - Cain, Chandler AND Billy Wilder ! (nt) - Doug Flynn 12:29:30 02/02/14 (0)