The Damned

[Richard Romeo]

I could have sworn the credits mentioned based on story by Thomas Mann--I, 
of course, have seen the beautiful version of Visconti's Death in Venice as 
well--

Oh well...

Rich


>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>To: Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: The Damned
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Are you sure you're not short-circuiting The Damned
>(1969) with Visconti's Death in Venice (1971), which
>is of course based on a Thomas Mann novella, as well
>as with Istvan Szabo's Mephisto (1981), adapted from a
>Klaus "Son of Thomas" Mann novel and apparently
>sharing certain elements with The Damned?  Of course,
>all I know about Luchino Visconti I learned from Monty
>Python's Flying Circus, so ...
>
>http://www.montypython.net/scripts/fraud.php
>
>--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently saw Visconti's film, The Damned starring
> > Dirk Bogarde--it's worth seeing, if a bit over the
> > top at times. My question is what Thomas Mann story
> > is it based on--same title? a short story, perhaps?
> > Thx.
>
>... so don't thank me yet ...
>
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