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WITH THAT SAID about Marathon Man, the film and the book, it is worth taking a moment to consider William Goldman, whose screenplay credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, but who is held in highest regard by this writer for Boys and Girls Together, a novel about growing up in the 50's, published over a decade ago, that is remarkable for a set of extraordinarily well-developed characters and strikingly witty and realistic dialogue. Having failed to encounter anyone who has heard of this book, or anyone who knew of Goldman...
...Screenplay by BARRY BECKERMAN
...Screenplay by FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT and SUZANNE SCHIFFMANN...
Barry Beckerman's screenplay offers Director J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) several good chances to take advantage of the flush, neon lowlife of L.A. Thompson sedulously ignores every opportunity and does not try to sort much sense out of the plot, either. He has all he can do to keep his actors from tripping over corpses. In addition to the ravishing Jacqueline Bisset, who appears as a rather tricky temptress, and Houseman, whose air of hothouse gentility is persuasive, Charles Bronson makes a pleasing shamus out of St. Ives. No big thing, mind. But he eases through...
...Screenplay by AGENORE INCROCCI and FURIO SCARPELLI...