Post by paulpogue on Apr 2, 2010 11:39:48 GMT -8
Because I really, really love the trivia I learn from others whenever we do one of these.
Post a question, post an answer, say what you feel like, no need to be orderly about it. I'll start:
One of Frank Sinatra's most successful films was 1968's "The Detective," in which he plays a hard-boiled, erm, detective.
It has no sequel ... sort of. The story was picked up on and continued in film many years later, albeit with a considerable asterisk, in a film that probably next to nobody at the time or even now thought of as a sequel to anything.
What was the "sequel"? And why do I feel the need to put that in quote marks?
Post a question, post an answer, say what you feel like, no need to be orderly about it. I'll start:
One of Frank Sinatra's most successful films was 1968's "The Detective," in which he plays a hard-boiled, erm, detective.
It has no sequel ... sort of. The story was picked up on and continued in film many years later, albeit with a considerable asterisk, in a film that probably next to nobody at the time or even now thought of as a sequel to anything.
What was the "sequel"? And why do I feel the need to put that in quote marks?
. "The Detective" was written by Roderick Thorp in 1966 as the story of Detective John Leland investigating a murder. Sinatra's movie adaptation came two years later. Late in the 1970s, inspired by "The Towering Inferno," Thorp wrote a sequel, "Nobody Lives Forever," which saw John Leland running through a high-rise building trying to rescue his family from terrorists.