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Article: Obituaries in the News
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- January 15, 2007
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A.I. Bezzerides
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A.I. Bezzerides, a novelist-turned-screenwriter best known for post-World War II film noir classics such as "Kiss Me Deadly," "On Dangerous Ground" and "Thieves' Highway," died Jan. 1 after a brief illness, his daughter said. He was 98.
Bezzerides was working as a communications engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power when his 1938 novel "Long Haul" was turned into "They Drive by Night," a 1940 melodrama starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as struggling trucker brothers hauling produce.
After Warner Bros. paid him $2,000 for the rights to his novel and put him under contract as a $300-a-week screenwriter, Bezzerides discovered ...