Talk:Francis Durbridge

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Love the recent additions by Wittkowsky! Fascinating information. Was Paul Temple considered to be part of the Edgar Wallace school in Germany? Is the word I'm after "Krimi"? If so, someone should mention this in the article. Rayray 09:26, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello, thanks for the kind words. Yes, indeed, these are the so called "Krimi"-stories. The long word for that is "Kriminalroman" (crime novel). The TV-series after Durbridge's novels were made about at the same time, the Edgar-Wallace-movies came to the big screen in Germany and England in the 1960ies (although there already were some in the 30ies and 40ies). But as Wallace first was a writer for the stage (e.g. The Squeaker), not all (but quite a bit) of his novels were made into films, it is on the other side with Durbridge, who first only wrote for radio-plays and therafter these stories first were made into books and then TV-films / serials. And except for some of the Paul Temple-stories none other made it to the big screen, as far as I know. But all two were very much loved by the German audiences, in radio and cinema and TV (we do have a faible for the good old sophisticated crime stories with British "dark humor"). --Wittkowsky 16:35, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

his work in Italy
His work in Italy became sometime inspiration for sceneggiati (in english the word would be "tv movie"), for example "A man called Harry Brent" became "Un certo Harry Brent"... ask italian embassy for more informations ;) ...93.32.249.51 (talk) 19:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
Footnote 14 links to a private company's website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.223.105 (talk) 20:33, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Excessive detail?
I've removed some material which seemed to me obviously irrelevant to the subject of the article. I'd like to hear from others about whether they think we can't cut it down a bit more, particularly the details (lists of actors, DVD releases) in the passages about adaptations of Durbridge's work. Harfarhs (talk) 23:12, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

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