culture The Fruitful Collaboration Between Novelist Alistair MacLean and Film Producer Elliott Kastner Koraljka Suton American movie producer Elliott Kastner passed away in 2010, at the age of 80. After starting out in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency in New...
culture Philip K. Dick’s Novels Of The ’50s Are Underrated And (Mostly) Untouched By Hollywood David Agranoff It’s hard to imagine modern science fiction in prose or film in the last seventy years without the impact or influence of Philip K. Dick.
culture Click-In Movies: The Human Factor (1979) Cinephilia & Beyond After a prolific career that spanned more than five decades, two-time Academy Award-nominated director Otto Preminger retired from his filmmaking role...
culture A French Crime Master: The Films Of Novelist Auguste Le Breton Koraljka Suton French novelist Auguste Le Breton became acquainted with suffering in the early stages of his life. His father fell victim to WWI before the future...
culture An Italian Crime Master: The Films Of Novelist Giorgio Scerbanenco Koraljka Suton Italian journalist and crime fiction novelist Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in the Ukraine in 1911, but moved to Italy when he was just a child...
culture Click-In Movies: Night of the Juggler (1980) Cinephilia & Beyond A psychopath outraged by what his beloved neighborhood of South Bronx has turned into decides to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy real-estate developer....
culture The Cinematic Legacy of Donald E. Westlake Koraljka Suton American crime novelist Donald E. Westlake shuffled off this mortal coil in 2008, at the age of seventy-five. The prolific writer left more than one...
culture Broadsword, Meet Danny Boy—the films of Elliott Kastner and Alistair MacLean Ray Banks “Three hours gone, Mr. MacLean, three hours – and never a word of the lifeboat.” So begins “The Dileas”, the winner of The Glasgow Herald’s 1954 short...
culture A Life In Crime, Part Six: ROAD TO PERDITION Max Allan Collins The day before Thanksgiving, 1993, my career decided to implode....
culture A Life In Crime, Part Three: QUARRY Max Allan Collins In the graduate program of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1970, I was something of a black sheep. In a way, I wasn’t even supposed to be there
culture Click-In Movies: Rogue Male (1976) Cinephilia & Beyond British novelist Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller novel  "Rogue Male" got two cinematic adaptations over the course of the 20th century. The first was...
culture Click-In Movies: Loophole (1981) Cinephilia & Beyond In 1981, the British heist drama Loophole saw the light of day, becoming a film that would mark actor Albert Finney’s comeback to the world of cinema...
