Brian wrote
. How often has it been that we like a movie far better
> > >than the book on which it is
based?
> >
Although CLEAN SLATE by Lionel White is an excellent HB caper
novel, Kubrick's film version, THE KILLING (with Jim Thompson
on scripting duties) is IMO one of the great films noir, or
one of the great crime melodramas, period.
Rene
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