MR. & MRS. NORTH
This series was a popular radio show and then transferred to television. It only ran for two seasons from 1953 to 1955. It starred Richard Denning and Barbara Britton and Francis De Sales as...
View ArticleSotomayer honors Erle Stanley Gardner
Sotomayer honored Erle Stanley Gardner recently by mentioning Perry Mason. Gardner's founding of the Court of Last Resort does indeed qualify him as a human rights activist, so she did well to honor...
View ArticleQuestion about the Shadow; Three X and Double Z
Took out Otto Penzler's book Great Detectives. Walter Gibson mentions that he based Double Z on a New York terrorist called Three X. Anyone have any info on this case?
View ArticleAttempts at Detective Movie Series in Recent Years
While walking around one day in the inner city, I walked up a flight of steps for a bit of exercise. I saw people dressed up for a Harry Potter film. I realized that in less than 10 years, six Harry...
View ArticleTravis McGee film coming up
http://monsterkidclassich...-Deep-Blue-Good-Bye.html An interesting test case, in that I wonder if they will do it as a period piece. The last McGee novel stands at 25 years ago.
View ArticleHow many TV/film adaptations of The Double Take did they make?
Has anyone made a list of how many times Roy Huggins adapted The Double Take for those TV series he worked on?
View ArticleThe Silver Age of Detective Fiction
People often think of around 1920 to around 1939 as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The Nicaraguan government seems to agree, since when they commemorated the founding of Interpol, they released...
View ArticleEnsemble Parody/Spoofs/Homages of Sleuths
Much as spoofs of the horror genre will feature analogues of Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolfman, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, etc., occasionally spoofs of the crime genre have featured...
View ArticleNext Topic >> If the recent Sherlock Holmes film does well, will any other...
I started to wonder if the Downey Holmes film did well, would that lead to other stalwart icons of the genre returning to the screen? After, the success of Blade, X-Men, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and...
View ArticleDetective and other thriller series that started having stories featuring...
When World War II started to shape up, many thriller series started doing stories featuring cases involving the Axis. This occurred in both prose and film. Can anyone name some examples? Preferably...
View ArticleMovie versions of TV police shows
Other than the recent film versions of Miami Vice and SWAT, the only movie versions of TV police shows that come to mind include Dragnet (1987) and Starksy and Hutch (2004). (I exclude Jack Webb's...
View ArticleAgatha Christie on DVD
This finally seems to be a reasonably complete filmography. Feel free to post updates, comments, further information, other resources, or whatever.Key: available on DVD (may be OOP) available on VHS...
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View Article'MOUSETRAP' SKEWERED IN HOLLYWOOD!
SHAMELESS PLUG: my Agatha Christie-related one-act comedy KILL A BETTER MOUSETRAP will be playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June. It relates the frustrations of Miles Merbinau, a poor schlep...
View ArticleIRONSIDE returns
Raymond Burr's wheelchair bound police detective returns. Only now he is embodied by Blair Underwood. The new NY based production ( a move from the original shows San Francisco )will begin airing in...
View ArticleMISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES
Anybody watching the Australian (ABC) TV series, MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES? Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger based the series on novels by Kerry Greenwood. I haven't read the novels, but I've put them...
View ArticleSergeant Cork (ATV 1963-1968)
Anyone here a fan of this series. It has been released in its entirety in the UK (Region 2) by Network. Set in late Victorian times (1890's) shortly after the formation of Scotland Yard's Criminal...
View ArticleSexton Blake: The Silent Thunder Caper
Hopefully, it's OK for my first post to be a heads-up for a new book which might be of interest to Scarlet Streets members?Obverse Books is proud to re-launch the famous Sexton Blake Library with a...
View ArticleNeed Help Searching for a Film--"The Phone Don't Phone!"
Hi everybody-- I'm new here, but I've been reading these forums for a while--I really enjoyed the back-and-forth, and the theorizing (mostly by freddybastion!), on the "Favorite Whodunit Fims" thread....
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