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Re: Short Cuts and Films of Multiple Short Stories
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Ken Mogg <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:52:40 +1000
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"Ames, Chris" wrote:

> I'm working on a paper on Robert Altman's "Short Cuts," a film made from
> nine separate short stories by Raymond Carver.  I'm wondering if anyone out
> there can think of other films made from multiple short stories woven
> together.

Well, Hitchcock could be eclectic in this way.  Notably, SECRET AGENT (1936)
took Somerset Maugham's short story "The Hairless Mexican"  (which had been
adapted into an unpublished play, 'Ashenden', by film critic Campbell Dixon) and
combined it with the same author's short story "The Traitor".

- Ken Mogg (author of the uncut UK edition of 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story' - I
disown the cut and 'simplified' US version).
Website: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin

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