John D. MacDonald

This is the third major go at the same material.

John D. Macdonald wrote the novel back in 1957, and it was called The Executioners.

Hold on to that title, because it comes back later in a way I actually really liked.

That book became the 1962 film with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, and then Martin Scorsese remade it in 1991 with Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte.

End of The Plotters by Alexander Blade.

Common Denominator by John D. McDonald.

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I've had a really, really interesting life.

When Louise and I first got married 54 years ago, we had been reading John D. McDonald's Travis McGee novels.

And he's this guy who lived on a houseboat down in Florida.

And whenever he needed money, he would find things that people had lost in exchange for half of the value of them.

So, you know, and she, she thought that I could read pretty much whatever I wanted to.

So I was digging into people like Ross McDonald and John D. McDonald and, you know, Chandler and all the rest of it when I was very young and also the golden age writers.

I read tons of, Well, not tons of, because Christy kept writing.

I was in my forties when she died.

But, but coming, it's, but kinda a lot of the source material is from people from the South, like with Streetcar.

I think with today's movie, with the original author, John D. MacDonald of Cape Fear, uh, all kind of based in the South, which I think is, uh, interesting to see how non-Southerners view the South and how they're able to latch onto those themes that are kinda part of it-

Mm-hmm

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Uh, Sam Bowden, the lawyer, is played by Nick Nolte.

His family, Lee Bowden and Danielle Bowden, are played by Jessica Lange and, and Juliette Lewis.

Uh, it is directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Wesley Strick, uh, based on a novel, The Execu- Executioners by John D. MacDonald, and the 1962 film, Cape Fear.

Produced by Barbara De Fina, the soundtrack by Freddy Francis, edited by Thelma Schoonmaker, music by Bernard Herrmann with partnership with Elmer Bernstein.

Written by?

John McDonald.

Oh, John

McDonald wrote the novel, which was originally called The Executioners.

Let's see.

Wesley Strick.

There's credit here given to John McDonald, the author, and James Webb, who wrote the first screenplay.

But Wesley

Before we can even conceptualize a 10-hour runtime, how was this narrative originally constructed?

So the foundational text is a 1957 novel by John D. MacDonald titled The Executioners, and Feenberg astutely points out in his review that this original source material was the very definition of, um, brutally efficient.

MacDonald was a master of the pulp format.

He wasn't interested in sprawling sociological treatises, you know.

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What Christmas Did for Jerusha Grumble by John D. MacDonald.

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