Book Ad of the Week: THE SUMMER THAT BLED (1973)
May 21, 1973The Summer That Bledby Anthony MastersSt. Martin's Press, 1972This non-fiction account of the life and death of Hannah Senesh was never adapted into a major motion picture. However, Yoel...
View ArticleBook Ad of the Week: THE SURVIVOR (1980)
September 28, 1980The Survivorby Jack EisnerWilliam Morrow & Co., 1980Jack Eisner's autobiography The Survivor became the 1985 Moshé Mizrahi film WAR AND LOVE, starring Kyra Sedgwick, Sebastian...
View ArticleBook Ad of the Week: HARRY S. TRUMAN (1974)
January 2, 1974Harry S. Trumanby Margaret TrumanWilliam Morrow & Co., 1972This biography of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, was written by his daughter Margaret Truman,...
View ArticleBook Ad of the Week: THE DAY BEFORE SUNRISE (1976)
May 2, 1976The Day Before Sunriseby Thomas WisemanHolt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976Thomas Wiseman's novel The Romantic Englishwoman became the Joseph Losey film of the same name, but a major motion...
View ArticleBook Ad of the Week: CITY PRIMEVAL
September 19, 1980City Primevalby Elmore LeonardArbor House, 1980A number of films have been made from Elmore Leonard's novels and short stories, beginning with THE TALL T and 3:10 TO YUMA in 1957, but...
View ArticleBook Ad of the Week: TEN PLUS ONE (1963)
September 12, 1963Ten Plus Oneby Ed McBainSimon & Schuster, 1963The seventeenth novel in Ed McBain's popular 87th Precinct series became the Philippe Labro film SANS MOBILE APPARENT/WITHOUT...
View ArticleBook Ad of the Week: RASCAL (1963)
February 6, 1964Rascalby Sterling NorthE.P. Dutton & Co., 1963Sterling North's novel became the Walt Disney production RASCAL (1969) directed by Norman Tokar and starring Steve Forrest, Pamela...
View ArticleJapanese Tie-in #1: AQUARIUS (a.k.a. STAGE FRIGHT)
by Michael GingoldWhat’s a movie tie-in paperback collector to do when he’s acquired almost all the English-language books he’s been looking for, and the few that are left are proving maddeningly...
View ArticleBRUTES AND SAVAGES by Arthur Davis and Ben Parker
Reviewed by Chris PoggialiArthur Davis, known as “Mr. International Showman” in the film distribution world, was a familiar face to people who read Variety during the 1960s and ‘70s. The son of a...
View ArticleA STUDY IN TERROR by Ellery Queen
Reviewed by Nathaniel PoggialiEllery Queen, the erudite master detective who first appeared in The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) and documented his cases as a series of mystery stories, was both the...
View ArticleTHE SAINT AND THE FICTION MAKERS by Leslie Charteris, adapted by Fleming Lee...
Reviewed by Nathaniel PoggialiThe crime-fighting gentleman thief Simon Templar, alias The Saint, was the creation of Chinese-English author Leslie Charteris and first appeared in the novel Meet the...
View ArticleDoc Savage (Gold Key, 1966)
In 1966, Gold Key put out a one-shot Doc Savage comic book that was originally commissioned as a tie-in for a DOC SAVAGE movie from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, to star Chuck Connors. Both the...
View ArticleTHE CAT O' NINE TAILS (Award Books, 1971) by Paul J. Gillette
Reviewed by Nathaniel PoggialiAn American publication based on a European co-production, The Cat O’ Nine Tails is the only novelization of a Dario Argento film. It’s also one of the few penned by...
View ArticleADAPT OR DIE: MALZBERG'S PHASE IV
Review By Nathaniel PoggialiThe sci-fi thriller PHASE IV, graphic designer Saul Bass’s only feature film as director, had a chilly reception from audiences in 1974 and fell into obscurity for many...
View ArticleSoon to be a Major Motion Picture?
The Adulteressby William MaidmentApollo Books, 1971In the late 1960s, American International Pictures attempted to produce a film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel Letting Go. That didn't end happily,...
View ArticleLAST MAN STANDING by Jerome Preisler
Reviewed by Philip Nathaniel PoggialiThe plot of writer/director Walter Hill’s gangland thriller is nothing original, following A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and a slew of other unofficial remakes of YOJIMBO...
View ArticleBack to Blaise: Peter O’Donnell’s Celluloid Heroine
"...There came a time when fear was transmuted into stimulus, and the moments of danger which had once brought terror now brought only a keener sense of being alive." (O’Donnell, Blaise, 19)Back to...
View ArticleTHE EXTERMINATOR by Peter McCurtin
Reviewed by Paul Talbot and Chris PoggialiFor his second feature film, director/writer James Glickenhaus created the low-budget, brutal vigilante thriller THE EXTERMINATOR (1980), which quickly became...
View ArticleSheckley, from 7 to 10
by Philip Nathaniel PoggialiRobert Sheckley’s short story “Seventh Victim” first appeared in an April 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, and imagined a future society where military wars were...
View Article“THEY STILL HAVE PRISONERS”: A REVIEW OF INVASION
by Philip PoggialiLate at night a rural English hospital receives an unusual patient who has been struck down by an automobile. The patient is rubber-suited, has an unidentifiable blood type, and...
View ArticleNOVELIZED: A LOOK BACK AT EXTREME PREJUDICE, PART 1
By Phil PoggialiSPOILER WARNING!Celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year is EXTREME PREJUDICE, a fast-paced and violent modern western in director Walter Hill’s inimitable style. The film’s...
View ArticleLE JUMEAU (THE TWIN) ON BLU-RAY
by Phil PoggialiLast May, the Museum of the Moving Image hosted “Crime Scenes,” a series focusing on the film adaptations and screenplays of legendary novelist Donald E. Westlake. The weekend of...
View ArticleBook Ad of the Week: BLUE MERIDIAN (1971)
April 25, 1971Blue Meridianby Peter MatthiessenRandom House, 1971This non-fiction book, an account of author Peter Matthiessen's experiences working on the shark documentary BLUE WATER, WHITE DEATH...
View ArticleJames Bond in Find Your Fate
The James Bond Find Your Fate books were published in the U.S. and Canada in 1985. Marketed to young readers, the books were inspired by the popular Choose Your Own Adventure series, essentially game...
View ArticlePaperback Procession: 66 Novelizations by Screenwriters
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymoreby Robert GetchellWarner Books, 1975All the Loving Couplesby Leo V. GordonHolloway House, 1969Benji: Off the Leash!by Joe CampHarperCollins, 2004The Big Red Oneby Samuel...
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