![]() Revír, 1970 Panenka, 1980) and elsewhere.Īs McBain, Salvatore Albert Lombino (aka Evan Hunter) was the acknowledged master of the police procedural, the series comprising 55 books over half a century, and possibly inspiring Hill Street Blues. The other is the use of McBain’s all-American romans policiers for films from France ( La soupe aux poulets, 1963 Sans Mobile Apparent, 1971 Claude Chabrol’s Blood Relatives, 1978), Czechoslovakia ( 87. One was the penchant of Kurosawa, arguably Japan’s greatest filmmaker, to adapt writers as diverse as William Shakespeare ( Throne of Blood, 1957 Ran, 1985), Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( The Idiot, 1951), and Maxim Gorky ( The Lower Depths, 1957). ![]() ![]() ![]() Akira Kurosawa’s Tengoku to jigoku ( Heaven and Hell, aka High and Low 1963), based on Ed McBain’s tenth 87th Precinct mystery, King’s Ransom (1959), epitomizes a pair of fascinating, complementary trends. ![]()
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