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FILM 160

FILM NOIR ADAPTATIONS O F H A R D - BOILED DETECTIVE FICTION

SOURCE MATERIAL FILM ADAPTATIONS

Raymond Chandler adapted works: (1939) The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946) and The Big Sleep (Winner, 1978) Farewell, My Lovely (1940) The Falcon Takes Over (Reis, 1942) and , My Sweet (Dmytryk, 1944) and Farewell, My Lovely (Richards, 1975) The High Window (1942) Time to Kill (Leeds, 1942) and (Brahm, 1947) (1943) Lady in the Lake (Montgomery, 1947) (1949) Marlowe (Bogart, 1969) (1953) The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)

screenwriting: (Wilder, 1944) [Co-Scr Adpt] (Pichel, 1944) [Co-Scr Adpt] The Unseen (Allen, 1945) [Co-Scr Adpt] (Marshall, 1946) Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951) [Co-Scr Adpt]

James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) Ossessione (Visconti, 1943) and Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, 1946) Postman Always Rings Twice (Rafelson, 1981) Double Indemnity (1936) Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) and (Kasdan, 1981) Mildred Pierce (1941) Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945) Love’s Lovely Counterfeit (1942) Slightly Scarlet (1956)

Dashiell Hammett adapted works: The Maltese Falcon (1930) The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1940) The Glass Key (1931) The Glass Key (Heisler, 1942) screenwriting: City Streets [Scr-st]

Cornell Woolrich (selected examples) Black (1943) Black Angel (Neill, 1946) Black Curtain (1941) Street of Chance (Hively, 1942) The Black Path of Fear (1944) The Chase (Ripley, 1946) Deadline at Dawn (1944) Deadline at Dawn (Clurman, 1946) “Fall Guy” Fall Guy (Le Borg, 1947) “Two Men in a Furnished Room” The Guilty (Reinhardt, 1947) “I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes” I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (Nigh, 1948) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Farrow, 1948) “Nightmare” Nightmare (Shane, 1956) Lady (1942) (Siodmak, 1944) “The Window” The Window (Tatzlaff, 1949) The Bride Wore Black (1940) The Bride Wore Black (Truffaut, 1967) Waltz Into Darkness (1947) Mississippi Mermaid (Truffaut, 1969)

W.R. Burnett adapted works: The Asphalt Jungle (1949) The Asphalt Jungle (Houston, 1950) High Sierra (1940) High Sierra (Walsh, 1941)[Co-Scr] and I Died a Thousand Times (Hiesler, 1955) [Scr] Nobody Lives Forever (1944) Nobody Lives Forever (Negulesco, 1946) [Scr] screenwriting: Beast of the City (Brabin, 1932) [Scr-st] The Racket (Milestone, 1928) [Co-Scr] This Gun for Hire (Tuttle, 1942) [Co-Scr] Leo Rosten adapted works: “The Dark Corner” The Dark Corner Sleep, My Love Sleep, My Love [Co-Scr] screenwriting: Where Danger Lives (Scr-st)

Mickey Spillane I, the Jury (1947) I, the Jury (Essex, 1953) Kiss Me Deadly (1952) Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955) The Long Wait (1951) The Long Wait (Saville, 1954)

Jim Thompson adapted works: The Killer Inside Me (1952) The Killer Inside Me (Kennedy, 1975) After Dark, My Sweet (1955) After Dark, My Sweet (Foley, 1990) (1959) The Getaway (Peckinpah, 1972) The Grifters (1963) The Grifters (Frears, 1990) screenwriting: The Killing (Kubrick, 1956) [Co-Scr]

Vera Caspary adapted works: Laura (1941) Laura (Preminger, 1944) screenwriting: Letter to Three Wives (1949) [Scr-Adp] The Blue Gardenia (Lang, 1953) [Scr=St]

Dorothy B. Hughes (1946) Ride the Pink Horse (Montgomery, 1947) In a Lonely Place (1947) In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950)

Other Authors

Criss Cross (Don Tracy, 1935) Criss Cross (Siodmak, 1949) andThe Underneath (Soderbergh, 1995) Long Haul (A.I. Bezzerides, 1938) They Drive By Night (Walsh, 1939) Thieves Like Us (Edward Anderson, 1938) They Live By Night (Ray, 1949) and Thieves Like Us (Altman, 1973) Night and the City (Gerald Kersh, 1938) Night and the City (Dassin, 1946) and Night and the City (Winkler, 1992) I Wake Up Screaming (Steve Fisher, 1941) I Wake Up Screaming (Humberstone, 1941) The Big (Kenneth Fearing, 1946) The Big Clock (Farrow, 1948) and No Way Out (Donaldson, 1987) Dark Passage (David Goodis, 1946) Dark Passage (Daves, 1947) Build My Gallows High (Daniel Mainwaring) (Siodmak, 1946) and Against All Odds (Hackford, 1987) The Hitch-Hiker (Daniel Mainwaring) The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino, 1953) The Big Heat (William P. McGivern, 1952) The Big Heat (Lang, 1948) Night of the Hunter (David Grubb, 1953) Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)