Word: furthman
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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Someone, at least, seems to have started with the right idea. The screen play is credited to a woman who worked with two other scenarists of some renown (William Faulkner, Jules Furthman) on Howard Hawks' adaptation of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep, released in 1946 and by now a sort of touchstone in the genre. But Altman is no friend of fleet dialogue, especially when it can be replaced by a stumbling, windswept improvisation; other niceties of the writer's craft, like character and coherence, are similarly disdained...
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