Yes, the Jim Shepard book was exactly what I was erroneously thinking of as the movie's source material. A while back, before it came out, somewhere I read that this was the film's inspiration.Thanks for setting me straight. Although with regard to the screenwriter's possible lack of awareness regarding his own main character... >But the writer of the "Shadow" screenplay said in several interviews that Schreck only made one film which means this writer worked on the script a full decade without doing some elementary research on a main character. So what should we expect? ...it seems equally likely this is merely a calculated pose in an attempt to promote the film along the logical lines suggested by its narrative. At 10:54 PM 5/9/01 -0400, you wrote: >But the writer of the "Shadow" screenplay said in several >interviews that Schreck only made one film which means this writer worked >on the script a full decade without doing some elementary research on a >main character. So what should we expect? ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite