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To avoid any confusion, I will note upfront that this is not the movie called The Actor directed by Richard Blake that was released earlier this year and is currently available on streaming services (although that one looks like it might be fun). Donald Westlake’s superb posthumous novel Memory is getting a movie […] Note: This is the fourth of four posts on Donald Westlake’s 1977 collection of two novellas, Enough, reprinted by Hard Case Crime as Double Feature. The series covers the novellas and the movies based on them. Links to the other entries in the series are at the bottom of this post. In 2004, a […] Note: This is the second of four posts on Donald Westlake’s 1977 collection of two novellas, Enough, reprinted by Hard Case Crime as Double Feature. The series covers the novellas and the movies based on them. Links to the other entries in the series are at the bottom of this post. A Slight Case […] The Donald Westlake novella Ordo was recently reprinted as part of the two-fer Double Feature for Hard Case Crime (a look at that volume is coming soon). Did you know there was a movie based on Ordo? It’s a French film from 2004. It’s fairly expensive in its US edition, but I found a […] In the early days of this site (2000), I had a couple of brief exchanges with Donald Westlake. One of them went like this (excerpted from longer e-mails): DEW: What do you mean, two movies of JIMMY THE KID? If I knew how to ubderline [sic] on this despicable machine, I would […] Wonder Publishing Group has just released Donald Westlake’s 1961 sleaze novel, Campus Doll, as an eBook. It is available for Kindle from Amazon and some other formats from Barnes & Nobles’ Fictionwise. As a bonus, it’s cheap, listed at $5.99. While it’s always great news when rare Westlake becomes available, I can’t help but […]
This trailer for the completely unnecessary remake of the Westlake-written The Stepfather appropriately features a completely unnecessary cover of The Cars’ “Drive.” If you’re planning on seeing this, be warned that the trailer seems to give away the entire film. The Stepfather comes out on October […] Donald Westlake was one of the writers of this 1979 comedy starring Dom DeLuise, Suzanne Pleshette, and Jerry Reed. I’ve never seen it. Hot Stuff trailer Hot Stuff is rare on VHS and has never been released on DVD, but you can watch the whole movie via this YouTube […] Donald Westlake as drawn by Darwyn Cooke It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these–let’s see what I’ve accumulated in the past month or so. Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!! has Darwyn Cooke’s portrait of Donald Westlake (above). (Thanks to Will Kane of World of Kane.)
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