Notes
Mohammed Hussain’s Dirty Harry
“Where Hollywood’s films were full of urban grit and cinema verité
style, Bollywood’s were full of blinding color and outlandish levels of
artifice. This did not, however, deter Indian B movie king Mohammed
Hussain from forging ahead with a remake of Don Segal’s Dirty Harry — one in which he attempted to meld those two very different sensibilities[.]” More at Teleport City. (via 4DK)
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Tagged as: 1970s, adaptation, Bollywood, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Don Siegel, India, law enforcement, Mohammed Hussain, movies, musicals, police procedural
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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