Book Ad of the Week: TELEFON (1975)

May 23, 1975

May 31, 1975

June 17, 1975

Telefon

by Walter Wager

Macmillan, 1975

The movie TELEFON (1977) stars Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, and Sheree North, and was directed by Don Siegel (who replaced co-screenwriter Peter Hyams). Music score by Lalo Schifrin.

Paperback Procession: The Radley Metzger Edition

"As a genre, the 'sexploitation' films of the early and middle Sixties more than lived up to their name; they exploited not only sex but also their actors and their audiences. The one great exception to this standard was Radley Metzger's Audubon Films. Metzger -- first as a distributor and then, concurrently, as a director -- did for sex films in the Sixties what Playboy had done for sex magazines in the Fifties. His movies were classier, more literate, better-made, and blessed with women who looked as if they could communicate desire without carrying disease."
                                          -- Richard Corliss in Film Comment, 1973

Camille 2,000

by Sebastian Grant

Award, 1969

Novelization

Carmen, Baby

by Sebastian Grant

Award, 1968

Novelization

The Cat and the Canary

by Gerry Kingsley

Dale, 1978

Novelization

Her and She and Him...

by Lisa March

Audubon Ace, 1970

Novelization

(Film a.k.a. CLAUDE ET GRETA, LES LIAISONS PARTICULIÈRES,

and ANY TIME, ANYWHERE)

I Spit on Your Grave

by Boris Vian

Audubon Ace, 1971

Movie tie-in of J'irai Cracher sur Vos Tombes
(1959 film - U.S. release in 1963)

The Image

by Jean de Berg [Catherine Robbe-Grillet]

Grove Press, 1975

Movie tie-in of L'Image with b&w photos

(Film a.k.a. THE PUNISHMENT OF ANNE)

The Laughing Woman

by Hadrian Keene

Audubon Ace, 1970

Novelization

(Film a.k.a. THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN)

The Libertine

by Jacapo Massimo

Award, 1969

Novelizaton

The Lickerish Quartet

by Radley Metzger

Audubon, 1970

Screenplay with b&w photos

Madame O.

by T. Horoku

Audubon Ace, 1970

Novelization

Thérése and Isabelle

by Violette Leduc

Dell, 1968

Movie tie-in of Thérèse et Isabelle with b&w photos

Book Ad of the Week: GOOD LORD, YOU'RE UPSIDE DOWN! (1963)

March 10, 1963

Good Lord,

You're Upside Down!
by Clair Huffaker
Cornerstone Library, 1963

The major motion picture starring Jack Lemmon was never made.

Book Ad of the Week: THE HEPHAESTUS PLAGUE (1974)

January 13, 1974

The Hephaestus Plague
by Thomas Page
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973

This was filmed as the final William Castle Production from Paramount, BUG (1975), starring Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Jesse Vint and Patty McCormack and directed by Jeannot Szwarc.

Book Ad of the Week: THE SOPHOMORE (1968)

May 25, 1968

The Sophomore
by Barry Spacks
Prentice-Hall, 1968

The major motion picture of Spacks' book was never made, by acclaimed Broadway and TV producer Fred Coe or anybody else.

Book Ad of the Week: FREE FALL (1980)

February 10, 1980

Free Fall
by J.D. Reed
Delacorte, 1980

This book became the 1981 film THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER, directed by Roger Spottiswoode (who replaced Buzz Kulik, who replaced John Frankenheimer before filming began) and starring Treat Williams, Robert Duvall, Kathryn Harrold, and R.G. Armstrong. Dell published the paperback movie tie-in as The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper in 1981.