Meatball And A Movie

Spaghetti and meatballs. Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. This was the fourth installment in the Thin Man series and the creative talents had walked away; Dashiell Hammett wasn't involved. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the husband and wife team who wrote the first three Thin Man scripts, refused to write another one. And it shows, not much meat on the bone in this story (that's an Asta pun). Hammett was a good writer. His Continental Op stories are favorites. I would think someone in the film or television industry would pick those up and put them on a screen, big or small. One Continental Op story was the basis for an episode in the Fallen Angels anthology series, Fly Paper in Season Two, Episode Seven. So it can be done. It should be done.

Lasagna. Blade Runner, 1982, directed by Ridley Scott, screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.  

Spaghetti and meatballs. The Phoenician Scheme, 2025, written and directed by Wes Anderson, starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton and Michael Cera.  

Spaghetti and meatballs. Topkapi, 1964, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley and Akim Tamiroff. Yet another mid twentieth century caper movie.