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Article: `Flash of Green' crackles // `American Playhouse' gives film thriller second chance
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 21, 1986
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One of fiction's most prolific writers, John D. MacDonald always has
suffered the indignity of having his superb thrillers trashed by
Hollywood.
But with the release last year of "A Flash of Green," which
Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert awarded three stars during its
all-too-brief run at the Fine Arts Theaters, at last a MacDonald work
was treated with respect.
If you missed this fascinating character study of a corrupt
reporter's effort to reclaim his self-respect, you're in luck tonight
when the film is presented from 8 to 10 on WTTW-Channel 11 as part
of the "American Playhouse" series.
Like MacDonald's fiction, "A Flash of Green" is rife with rich,
complex characters, ...
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The Boston Globe;
June 14, 1989 ;
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