Well, except for the dresses Madonna almost wore. 
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Michael Madsen might be good for the part. He can be fairly menacing and is big enough to carry off my mental picture of Davenport.
That’s an interesting choice and I never would have thought of him. He might work. Brooding, dark hair & blue eyes.
I picture Lucas as tall and slender, mid-length dark hair and a little sullen.
I was picturing a Tom Cruise type but not Tom Cruise. What would you think of Clive Owen with an american accent?
I’ve always had a soft spot for Gil Hamilton.
Or maybe I just want Known Space to finally make it to the big screen.
Chris Noth (the image on the right)! I seem to recall that the book indicates that Lucas is pretty broad across the shoulders, somewhat intimidating, and able to take care of himself.
I am not entirely certain. I had most and as a rule I usually would only loan out out ones I had doubles of, which I seem to remember were Dreadful Yellow Sky, Turquoise Lament, Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper and Empty Copper Sea. But as I said, I was kind of interested in this young lady so I probably would have bent my standing rules a bit. It was quite a while ago and I am not certain.
Apparently I was wrong.
On a slightly reversed direction; I understand that the Philo Vance movies were pretty successful in the 1930s. Why? If there ever was a static one-dimentional, long-winded, efete detective, it was Vance. I have read all of the novels with him as the detective (even the Gracie Allen Murder Case) and I am amazed at that too (my actually reading them when I never really warmed to them, I mean).
“Boney” was an excellent series - very fondly remembered as a high water mark in 70’s Australian TV
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That’s one of my favourite books of all time! I was just thinking about re-reading it.
'bye, Jack, from me, too.
To address the topic, how about John Marshall Tanner, My Secret Fictional Boyfriend? Author, Stephen Greenleaf.
They’d probably end up being terrible, but it still might be interesting to see film versions of the Carnacki stories by William Hope Hodgson and the John Silence stories by Algernon Blackwood.
The basic plot for the Continental Op’s chief novel, Red Harvest has been used a couple of times, but not as detective movies. Yojimbo and Fistful of Dollars everyone knows. Roadhouse Nights might come closer to the novel, but I doubt it. I suspect it is to Red Harvest as Satan Met a Lady is to The Maltese Falcon.
Miller’s Crossing has attributions to Red Harvest – as well as The Glass Key – but I gotta say it’s hard to discern either.
I would love to see Red Harvest as originally written – 20’s era mining town in Idaho with the Op blowing into town and setting things to rights – but I doubt it will ever happen unless there’s a major Hammett revival.
The movies were much more standard detective films. And William Powell was the first Vance. He played it as jaunty William Powell. Worth seeing just for him.
In the same way, the first few Ellery Queen mystery novels were heavily based on Vance, but the movie Ellery was much lighter, jauntier I guess, than the book Ellery.