tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post5034747192367856646..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Criss-Cross -- Don TracyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-19386545194050442782010-03-17T07:02:22.360-05:002010-03-17T07:02:22.360-05:00Tracy's one of those writers who's slipped...Tracy's one of those writers who's slipped through the cracks and it seldom remembered. Which is too bad.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-39694439340607776692010-03-16T22:58:01.725-05:002010-03-16T22:58:01.725-05:00I read Don Tracy's "The Hated One." ...I read Don Tracy's "The Hated One." It deals with racial issues in the south, as well as alcoholism. I found it very interesting to be in the head of an alcoholic character who happens to be a lawyer and must sober up to focus on the case. Tracy did a great job. I Didn't know he had a problem with the bottle. I have his "How sleeps the beat" on my reading wish-list.RaiderLegendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00169636579747579891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-67481125820416991382007-12-19T16:17:00.000-06:002007-12-19T16:17:00.000-06:00I read The Nightshade Ring about a zillion years a...I read <I>The Nightshade Ring</I> about a zillion years ago, and also another book by Hardy. All I remember now is that I enjoyed both.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-3161159563791045742007-12-19T16:10:00.000-06:002007-12-19T16:10:00.000-06:00Unbelievable. I also found the same edition at ou...Unbelievable. I also found the same edition at our Salvation Army Store last year for $1 People must not know what they have to be getting rid of them. Read his Lion book "The Cheat" -was good, but "Criss-Cross" was better. Also have one of his Historical Novels but thats not my cup of tea.<BR/>Reading now "The Nightshade Ring" by Lindsay Hardy. Believe he is an Australian author?<BR/><BR/>http://vinpulp.blogspot.com/August Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11797743144228505958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-7814619538528583392007-12-15T07:01:00.000-06:002007-12-15T07:01:00.000-06:00I have some of those Griff Speer books.I have some of those Griff Speer books.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-54920110793640821412007-12-15T01:14:00.000-06:002007-12-15T01:14:00.000-06:00You guys are good. You got there before me with th...You guys are good. You got there before me with the Burke's Law and Fugitive info. Don Tracy also did about 6 books in a series about M.P. Giff Speer, books like Look Down On Her Dying, Pot of Trouble and High< Wide and Ransom. <BR/><BR/>RJRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-20260122101495564542007-12-14T15:21:00.000-06:002007-12-14T15:21:00.000-06:00As Roger Fuller he wrote at least one THE FUGITIVE...As Roger Fuller he wrote at least one THE FUGITIVE tie-in, FEAR IN A DESERT TOWN. It's quite good, as I recall.<BR/>CRISS CROSS never made it into Swedish, I'm afraid. Guess it's one of those books I will never read. Sigh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-51408516616828069142007-12-14T10:04:00.000-06:002007-12-14T10:04:00.000-06:00Tracy was publishing pb originals at least as late...Tracy was publishing pb originals at least as late as 1968 -- THE BLACK AMULET from Pocket Books. He seems to have written a fair number of historicals. One of his '50s hardcovers, CRIMSON IS THE EASTERN SHORE, was reprinted in pb in the '70s to capitalize on the popularity of Michener's CHESAPEAKE.Fred Blosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307848103704970189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-58659054272401576422007-12-14T09:47:00.000-06:002007-12-14T09:47:00.000-06:00Among the Roger Fuller TV tie-ins are a couple of ...Among the Roger Fuller TV tie-ins are a couple of Burke's Law novels, WHO KILLED BEAU SPARROW and WHO KILLED MADCAP MILLICENT. I recall liking them quite a bit, although it's been over thirty years since I read them.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-66474058446848808102007-12-14T09:40:00.000-06:002007-12-14T09:40:00.000-06:00The story how producer Mark Hellinger bought Criss...The story how producer Mark Hellinger bought Criss Cross to be made into a movie is of some interest. Hellinger paid Tracy $5000.00 for the book in 1946 and also threw a grand at agent Paul Kohner for setting the deal up. <BR/><BR/>Hellinger hired Anthony Veiller for $30,000 to write the script with a 5% end of the producer's profits. <BR/><BR/>The ending that Veiller came up with had the cop Ramirez ( Stephen McNally in the film) kill Steve (Burt Lancaster) in the barwith a closing line about Steve's service and sea change during WWII: "“He died a long time ago, December 21, 1944 in Bastogne. That’s a little town in Belgium."<BR/><BR/>When Hellinger died at the end of 1947, his widow, Gladys Glad sold the rights to Criss Cross to Universal-International for $115,200. Daniel Fuchs wrote the screenplay, but the great dialogue was largely due to the uncredited work of Bill Bowers who punched up the script. <BR/><BR/>Alan K. RodeUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08246328196627945952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-2136348622796646772007-12-14T08:55:00.000-06:002007-12-14T08:55:00.000-06:00I bought the same edition you have. I think I paid...I bought the same edition you have. I think I paid a buck. Hell of a novel. Tracy had a very bad botte problem which he wrote about. In the Fifties three or four of his hardcovers were bestsellers. I'm not sure when the booze brought him down. But then he began writing a lot of pb originals. He did a couple of series for Pocket, I know, and yes he was Roger Fuller. And probabl some other folk too. Criss Cross is a fine movie with Burt Lancaster, Yvonna DeCarlo and Dan Duryea.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.com