From Page to Screen with Ed McBain’s King’s Ransom and Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low
By Brian Greene
April 18, 2015I’ve been a fan of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 suspense film High and Low since I saw it years ago. I just watched it again after my first read of the 87th Precinct novel it’s based on: Ed McBain’s 1959 procedural King’s Ransom – the 10th installment of the highly-celebrated series penned by Evan Hunter under…