Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More notable than the kick-in-the-teeth plot is the novel technique Director Montgomery uses to tell it. Attempting to put the audience in the detective's shoes, he pretends that the camera is the detective's eyes. Many movies have used this technique in individual scenes, but no Hollywood film has ever before stuck to it consistently through fist fights, automobile chases and lovemaking. In a short introduction to the movie, Montgomery appears at a desk and looks into the camera while explaining that he is Detective Marlowe. Thereafter, he moves (taking the audience with...
James Cain's previous novels (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce) gave readers more than a peek into the nature of sadism, masochism and homosexuality. His new novel, which he calls a "small morality tale," reads just like its predecessors, and claims to be about incest. In his introduction, Cain says: "I like it better than I usually like my work, and yet I have an impulse to account for it. ... The many fictions published about me recently bring me to the realization I must ... be less reticent about myself...
Author Cain's introduction is so spirited that readers are likely to start his new novel with respect and sympathy. Unfortunately, they will find that The Butterfly, despite its air of dealing frankly with the delicate and ancient Oedipus theme, is about as incestuous as Tarzan of the Apes...
...author of this novel about China visited China briefly years ago, and has never been back. Since then Minnesota-born Holger Cahill, 54, has headed the WPA Art Project, and written an able biography of U.S. soldier-of-fortune Frederick T. ("Chinese") Ward. This long, rich novel is as full of indigestible mixtures and exotic surprises as the $1.35 "Chinese" dinner at any U.S. city's Shanghai Palace (one flight up over Jake's Paints & Hardware...
Booth Tarkington was trying to finish this novel when he died last May, aged 76. He had about a third of it still to write. It is now published, unfinished, with an introduction by his widow. She recalls how her husband distinguished what he called "the investigatory novel" from the "escapist" one-and declares that "the truth and mystery of human nature, and how most clearly to tell about that truth and that mystery" were the concern of his mature writing...