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4 August 2008 10:06 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

Kicking off the “Streets of No Return” series with a screening of Delmer Daves’s Dark Passage (1947), Pfa curator Steve Seid outlined in his introductory remarks that hopefully—along with the series’ objective of spotlighting the work of a lesser-known pulp writer like David Goodis—would be an attempt to gain a sense (over the length of the series) of the concept of filmic adaptation of literary works; to finesse what’s left behind when novels are adapted, or what is included to make them screenworthy; and to determine if justice has been done to the writings of David Goodis.

Succinctly profiling that Goodis began writing in the late ‘30s, with a brief irreconcilable stint in Hollywood in the late ‘40s, Goodis parted ways with Hollywood to return to “a decrepit life” in his hometown Philadelphia until his death in the ‘60s.  Even while he was alive, however, non-Hollywood film

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1 article from 2008