Geoffrey Homes (1902–1977)
Autor de Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956 film]
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Mainwaring, Daniel
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1902-07-22
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1977-01-31
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Oakland, California, USA
- Educación
- Fresno State
- Ocupaciones
- screenwriter
- Biografía breve
- After his first novel, One Against the Earth, all Daniel Mainwaring's work was published under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Homes".
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- Miembros
- 424
- Popularidad
- #57,554
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 29
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- 5
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One thing no one seems to argue about, one film everyone seems to agree is not only film noir but the quintessential film noir is OUT OF THE PAST (1947). Everything people do agree on about noir is in this film, and in it just about perfectly. It's in my top ten films of all time list, and lots of other people's, too.
OUT OF THE PAST is based on the novel BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH, by Geoffrey Homes (a pseudonym for Daniel Mainwaring). It is as noir as the film, at least. It's plot is roughly the same, but it is a bit more tangled, more intricate, with a pair of antagonists who were combined in the film. The main character, Red Bailey (Jeff in the film), is a former private investigator caught up in the wreckage of a ten-year-old case, with revenge and a femme fatale of the first order dogging his heels. Homes writes poetically, yet with Hemingwayesque strength. The book is no longer than it needs to be, but is rich and evocative. If you've seen the film, the book will strike you as having been perfectly captured in the film, even with the plot adjustments. The same sense of place, of topography, of architecture fills the book. It's a wonderful book, now in my top ten favorite crime novels.… (más)