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Well, I finally watched it. What took me so long? I’ll get to that. The Score is the fifth of Richard Stark’s Parker novels and universally thought of as one of the series’ very best. I bet some would say that The Score is the best. It’s probably in nearly everyone’s top five, and […]
Mise à Sac (AKA Pillaged, AKA Midnight Raid) is the one and only movie based on The Score, the one and only movie based on a Parker novel I haven’t seen, and, without question even though I haven’t seen it, the best French film based on a Parker novel. I’ve put countless hours […] I have been terribly remiss in sharing this news from Miroslav, a French reader who continues to send me great stuff even though I seem to take forever to post it. But as I’ve said before, nothing that is e-mailed to me is forgotten. I’ve got lots of great cover scans and other goodies […]
Since beginning this site over a decade (!) ago, one Parker-related item has eluded me. That item is Mise à Sac (“Pillaged”), a French film based on The Score. So far as I’ve been able to tell, the movie has not been released on video in any format. Posted by Trent on September 8th, 2009 | Tags: Alain Cavalier, Michel Constantin, Mise a Sac, The Score | Category: Parker Movies | Comments are closed It was recently announced that there would be American theatrical showings of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 film, Made in U.S.A. (based on The Jugger). A company called Rialto Media has just posted the trailer to YouTube. If they went through the trouble to do that, I think it’s a safe bet we […]
Just added to the obituaries page, from the L.A. Times: “Hollywood Rarely Did Donald Westlake Justice.” This contains the news that Made in U.S.A. (based on The Jugger) will have its American debut next week. Will video follow? Next week, the first-ever film adaptation of Westlake’s work, “Made in […] |
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