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pattern has been isolated in the public psyche. It is an oil strike
or a gold mine that can be depended on to yield a fair amount
of boodle to the careful and canny processor. Hollywood
bankers, that is, are smarter than literary historians, for the
latter despise popular taste except when it has been filtered
down from lecture course to literary handbook.
Lillian Ross in Picture wrote a snide account of the
filming of The Red Badge of Courage . She got a good deal of
easy kudos for a foolish book about a great film by simply
assuming the superiority of the literary medium to the film
medium. Her book got much attention as a hybrid.
Agatha Christie wrote far above her usual good level in a
group of twelve short stories about Hercule Poirot, called The
Labours of Hercules . By adjusting the classical themes to make