Fallen Angels: Murder, Obliquely
MURDER OBLIQUELY
Based on the short story by Cornell Woolrich
"Fallen Angels was a crime television anthology that aired on the American network, Showtime, in the 1990's. Not all the episodes featured private eyes, or even detectives, per se, but who cares? It paired some great hard-boiled and noir short stories by some of the genre's masters (hacks like Raymond Chandler, William Campbell Gault, Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson) with some pretty interesting choices for directors, including Peter Bogdanovich, Tom Cruise, Phil Joanou, Jim McBride, Steven Soderbergh and Tom Hanks, and some pretty spiffy casting, with folks like Gary Oldman, Laura Dern, Danny Glover, Bonnie Bedelia and James Woods. And the writers assigned to script the adaptations weren't too shabby either: they included Howard Rodman, Scott Frank and Donald Westlake."
LAURA DERN
ALAN RICKMAN
DIANE LANE
ROBIN BARTLETT
JOHN A. ZEE
MICHAEL VARTAN
PATRICK MASSET
