The Moon In The Gutter David Goodis

La lune dans le caniveau is a 1983 french drama film directed by jean jacques beineix it was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival.

The moon in the gutter david goodis.

When he returned he lived in a room in his parents home and published pulp novels as inexpensive paperback originals. David goodis 1917 1967 lived and worked in hollywood before returning to his hometown of philadelphia in 1950. In the rough guide to crime fiction 2007 barry forshaw cites the moon in the gutter as his representative goodis text in arguing that of all the noir novelists goodis comes the closest. The moon in the gutter 1953 is one of david goodis s many tours of the down and out neighborhoods of his native city of philadelphia.

Five noir novels of the 1940s 50s loa 225. Although it immediately followed beineix s big commercial success diva and featured two very big stars gérard depardieu and nastassja kinski the moon in the gutter was not well received by critics or audiences and failed. The moon in the gutter takes place in philly on vernon street a neighborhood in terminal despair and goodis makes us feel it walking us through its crack brained shacks two hundred year old houses that are no better than dumps and the loneliest alley where the blood of william kerrigan s sister catherine has left a residual stain on. The moon in the gutter french.

David goodis robert polito. Dark passage nightfall the burglar the moon in the gutter street of no return library of america noir collection 9781598531480.