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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

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BristleKRS

I love His Girl Friday, one of my favourite screwball comedies. But if you've got that in there, then how about the two versions of the play it's based on, The Front Page (I've only seen the Lemmon/Matthau one), or the updated remake Switching Channels?

Can't quite believe you've put Veronica Guerin in there though!

philc

I should stress that these are suggestions from Twitter followers. I just started with All the Presidents, Sweet Smell and Defence of the Realm and let others add what they saw fit.
There are a couple on the list I'd not include and plenty more missing.

BristleKRS

Another one springs to mind, one with Andrew McCarthy (the least enjoyable BratPacker IMHO) as an American journalist/novelist in Italy during the Strategy of Tension period. Can't remember its name, hang on...

'Year Of The Gun', it's called. Not great, but interesting.

philc

That does sound interesting and probably gets award for least likely casting.
I thought of The Insider (although it is more from the whistleblower's point of view) and Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor.

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Despite all that it must be a generational thing because the 1980s setting of Defence of the Realm resonates stronger than the wider collars in the Washington Post newsroom.

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