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Mid-1980s. Color. Scenes going back to the maid's youth reveal a condition of dyslexia so severe that she failed to learn to read. Was mocked by other students, and by her father. Became a competent cook through verbal instruction, interpreting pictures on labels. Supported herself by staying within those boundaries. Offed her father when she'd had enough. After her move, she made a good initial impression on the American family that employed her.

Ellison, Steve (The Durango Kid) -- Charles Starrett in *Trail to Lorado* (1948)

*Eat a Bowl of Tea* *Tea and Sympathy* *The Cake Eaters* *The Lotus Eaters*

Thanks, Sixes. Now, not supernatural or sci-fi horror, but human thriller/horror from a source that looks so ordinary that the victims usually do not see it coming. A young English woman comes to America (Canada film site), finds work as a cook-housekeeper. She had kept house for her father at home; it emerges slowly that she had killed him.

*Watermelon Man* *Greengage Summer* *Paris Trout*

*Home Fries* *Fried Green Tomatoes* *Freebie and the Bean* *Cornbread, Earl and Me* *A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich* *Eat the Peach* *Eating Raul* *Eat Drink Man Woman* *Pie in the Sky*

*Babette's Feast* *Like Water For Chocolate* *Hard Candy* *Tortilla Soup*

I guess I mentioned Mexico too soon if I wanted to stretch out the mystery. "B. Traven" is the name under which this writer published. There are disputes as to birth name and birthplace. A knowledgeable film buff whom I knew in the 1960s passed along to me a legend about the making of *Treasure of the Sierra Madre*. Supposedly there were sometimes glitches with the film company working on foreign soil. Sometimes a man seen only at a distance would approach local authorities, and consult with them, and then things would be working well again. This man never talked with director John Huston or any of the Americans on the site -- just the local people of authority. Supposedly, that was believed to be the author himself. I have never read or heard that allegation from any other source. Aside from what got run through a printing press and put on paper, little else is known about "B. Traven." Oh, yes. -- he seems to have held some very Leftist views at a time -- and in some places -- where that was not a safe thing to do. Dothery's thread. Edited by: flashback42 on May 31, 2013 5:36 AM

*Come Back, Charleston Blue* *The Keys to Tulsa*

This reclusive writer made his home in Mexico. One of his best-known novels in set in that country. Then the movie version -- a very well-received opus -- was filmed there. 1940s. BW.

*Whisperer in the Darkness* ??

*Souix City Sue* *Goodbye, Columbus* *Goodbye, New York* *The Boys From Syracuse*

*Downhill Racer* Gambling addiction

> {quote:title=lavenderblue19 wrote:}{quote}Flatbush is in Brooklyn, it's a neighborhood. Brooklyn is a borough, not a city. Good morning. Are Paris and Tokoyo American Cities? I know there's a Paris, Texas, but is that where the American was?

?:| psssst! Is Flatbush a city, or just a neighborhood?

*Fargo* *New York, New York* *The Palm Beach Story* *Miami Blues* *Dallas* *Detroit Cop* *Chicago* *San Francisco* *It Happened in Brooklyn*

Correct, Sixes. She was absolutely stunning in *Blade Runner*, but she do have her moments, don't she?! Sixes' thread.

Correct. Your tread.

Coffin Ed Johnson -- widely-used nickname of Raymond St. Jacques' character in *Come Back Charleston Blue* (1972)

I've enjoyed about as much of this as I can stand. Nobody knows who devised her own Catwoman outfit and tried to confront Tim Burton and Michael Keaton during the casting of the first "Batman" sequel?

Okay, next up, a brief exchange. "Ain't gone be no rematch. Ain't gone be no rematch." "I don't want one!"

Your thread, Swithin.

WAG that worked out just because I recently looked up some material on Mr. De Wilde. From sundown to sunup.

Thanks, Dothery. BTW, re clues: You gave it away when you named the list he was on and his position on it. Less definite info likely would have let the question last longer. Most around her get that definite after a question has lasted for a while, and it's time to let it go. Now I'll try to adhere to that principle with my own question: I won't start with the usual question, because almost nobody knows me, and the people who claim to know something about me make wildly different assertions. I have the kind of anonymity that J. D. Salanger wishes he had achieved. The name under which I published some novels, short stories and reportage is not the name I was born with, and there are disputes about the name and the place on those two points. It's generally agreed that my birthplace is in Europe. I moved to a "New World" country, and made my base there. Where my name appears in a film context it is in a "based on a novel by" mode. Who am I?

*All Fall Down* ??