As noted earlier in this article, the medical thriller was published under the pen name of Jeffrey Hudson while Crichton was still in his mid-20s and received critical acclaim, winning an Edgar Award.Ĭhock-full of medical terminology that is imcomprehensible to a lay person, such as myself, the novel makes extensive use of footnotes to explain the abbreviations that are constantly referenced. That reminded me that Crichton's novel Jurassic Park had awakened a long-dormant, fiction-reading phase in my life when I read it, shortly before Steven Spielberg's film version was released in 1993.Ĭurious as to whether Crichton's fiction held up, I visited my local Half Price Books and picked up a few of the author's paperbacks, including the earliest-published I could find, A Case of Need. I enjoyed the movie, which is based on Michael Crichton's novel, published in 1980. Blake Edwards)Ī few months ago, I happened to watch Frank Marshall's Congo (1995), which I'd never seen before. Paul Sorvino pops up as a taxi driver.Īs a burgeoning Crichton completist and confirmed Hershey fan, I was happy to track this down, since it's now out of print (evidently) on DVD, but, unfortunately, it's a woeful effort. Barbara Hershey enlivens her scenes, while Charles Durning provides solid support as a law enforcement officer. Lyons) to transport drugs cross-country from Boston to San Francisco. Lithgow plays a college drug dealer who enlists a fellow student (Robert F. I haven't read the novel, but the unremarkable film version is primarily noteworthy as John Lithgow's screen debut.
(Michael wrote the first draft, Douglas wrote the second draft, Michael wrote the thrid and final draft.) Michael Crichton collaborated with his younger brother Douglas Crichton on the novel, published in 1970 under the pen name Michael Douglas. Most recently viewed December 24, 2019, via Starz viewed multiple times since I first saw it on television in the mid-1970s.ĭEALING: OR THE BERKELEY-TO-BOSTON FORTY-BRICK LOST-BAG BLUES (1972 d. It harkens back to Wise's earlier efforts, such as The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Run Silent Run Deep, and even Executive Suite, mining terror from the trajectory of his camera and the expressions on the faces of people who know, deep down, that they are not masters of their own fate. Briskly-told in an authoritative yet inviting manner, filled with medical and scientific language, sparsely populated with a team of four scientists who are entirely focused on trying to prevent the end of the world, Crichton writes clean prose that continually drives the story forward.ĭirected by Robert Wise from a screenplay by longtime collaborator Nelson Gidding, the suspenseful film version adapts a similar style to Crichton's book. satellite crash-landed in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, bearing a virus that causes near-instant death.
Robert Wise)Ĭrichton's novel is a true page-turner, imagining what might happen if a U.S.
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