Books to Movies: L’Amour’s Shalako How many books did Louis L’Amour write before he died in 1988 at the age of 80? 105 novels and other books, almost all of them westerns or set in the West. This one was written in 1962. It’s a western genre piece by a king of western genre…
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The Name of the Rose, The Name of Eco – Book to Movie
The Name of the Rose! Back in 1986, a certain new “detective movie” came out of nowhere. A certain, dramatically new “Sherlock Holmes.” The plot unlike any other – “The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission…
The Anderson Tapes – Book to Movie
The Anderson Tapes was the debut crime fiction novel by Lawrence Sanders, published back in 1970. The story is about the complicated burglary of an upscale New York apartment building by a gang of ex-convicts, unaware that the operation is under wiretap and camera surveillance by various agencies. The same year, the book was produced…