Barry - I don't always 'get' your film-response pieces but this one is
right up my alley. Great! Brilliant first verse for any kinda poem.
Thanks.
Androo
On 19/10/06, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> THE BIG COMBO
>
> [via Joseph H. Lewis]
>
>
> Bar open. Gambling outside city limits.
> If I can get hold of her & make her talk . . .
> Girls will come tumbling after . . .
>
> Could get me a nice rich hoodlum.
> Once it gets started, it's hard to stop
> my sworn duty to push too hard.
> Blind & twisting maze, & all the little paths lead back
> out—-let's never come back.
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 10-18-06 (6:48 PM)
>
>
> Written during my first viewing of this beautifully-restored
> film noir, helmed by one of the best B-movie directors, but
> apparently somewhat overlooked at the time of its release in
> 1955, a bit after the genre had peaked. I chose a multi-voiced
> strategy, though after learning that the persistent police
> investigator and the gangster's mistress were husband & wife
> in real life, I might limit myself to their lines whenever I'm
> able to see this film again.
>
--
Andrew
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