Nick- NOT that I'd ever try to persuade you one way or another, but be warned that Upfield's VENOM HOUSE is not a very good representation of his work. I...
I hope everyone had a very happy new year, and it is filled with much hope and promise. I'm going to be travelling in February... first to Atlanta and then to...
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Three or four years ago WGBH and a UK production company signed an agreement to produce JOHN DICKSON CARR: THE SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERIES. Sadly, the idea...
Although, as you say, the solutions are often very complex (indeed, this is one of the best things about Carr, seeing how all the little details fit into the...
Dear Richard, Thanks for the advice. I'll keep an eye out then for the others--I have heard Death of a Lake, The Bone is Pointed and The Sands of Windee are...
Doug, Just out of curiosity, what actor (living or dead) would you have liked to have seen cast as Dr Fell or Sir Henry Merrivale? (I'm thinking of Sidney...
"The New Shoe" is half-caste Boney in a traditional setting (not Outback), and is quite good, but nothing to match with "Death of a Lake," for example. But the...
PS. Who is Jim Broadbent (as Dr Fell), for heaven's sake? (See my message to Doug Greene.) These days I don't know the names of most actors except outstanding...
For those who might be interested, the current issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD includes an article in our subject realm by yours truly, titled "The Bourgeois...
Friends, This may sound funny but I see HM vividly whenever I watch Minnessota Governor Jesse (the Body) Ventura on TV! Enrique F. Bird Picó Business: ...
... Orson Welles as Dr Fell, perhaps? Marlon Brando on one of his better days? Robert Morley as HM? It's hard to think of an actor who has both the bulk and...
Carmichael, I feel, was perfect for the part of Wimsey, though he came to the role a bit longer in the tooth than was probably fitting. Remember, Wimsey took...
I definitely agree with Bill here. The Carmichael series was excellent. I also enjoyed the Campion shows greatly, and wish that they were available somewhere....
Sam- I never saw the younger Alleyn on television, all I've seen are the Patrick Malahide shows. Overall, I didn't really care for the series that much. And...
Richard, If memory serves, which it seldom does, the Alleyn series I liked was done in serial fashion, each one comprising as many hour-long episodes as...
Sam and other friends, I suggest you subscribe to the Columbia House Perry Mason video library, which now comes also in DVD. Each tape has 2 episodes, which...
Splendid news all around, Enrique. Thanks for the info. Best w's, S.T. Karnick S. T. Karnick Editor in Chief, American Outlook (www.americanoutlook.org) ...
Sam- A&E owns the rights to the NBC Mystery Movies: Columbo, McCloud, Banacek, etc. It is probably just a matter of time before they are released. However, I...
Richard, I think what you say makes great sense, and will wait awhile to see if the Masons come out in season-long packages. That would be, as you note, a...
The book Winsey showed both cheeks. The early Wimsey was a left buttock, the later one a right. Middle Wimsey was the best, but here I don't want to continue...
It's like having a great collection on 78 records (like my grandmother's -- Caruso originals, etc.). Except, with a Victrola (if you can find one), you can at...
PS. Ted Turner's waiting to colorize them. But I shouldn't really say that on a Yahoo web site. ... was done in serial fashion, each one comprising as many...
Complete Perry Mason: God, I envy you. I had an almost complete set of the little Pocket Book editions from the 50's-60's but got rid of them when I had to ...
Didn't George Peppard (or whosit), who played Banacek, die a few years ago? As network TV productions go, this was one of the best attempts to propose...
Incidentally, they're just repeating a Bony series on daytime TV in Sydney - not the earlier one where Kate Fitzpatrick got her start, but the later one from...
I find it very easy, actually, when reading the Mason books, to see Perry not as Raymond Burr, whose portrayal I always thought far too bourgeois. It is...
I think that Peppard died a couple of years ago. I certainly miss him, as he was a fine actor and his low-key charisma was perfect for BANACEK. As to the...
... P> atrick Malahide shows. Overall, I didn't really care for the series that m> uch. And this is due to the fact that the Marsh stories were squeezed ...
