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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: NickNascati on May 15, 2017, 07:48:34 PM
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All,
I am a great fan of Maughm's work. I've been reading "Ashenden", which is a fictionalized version of his actual experiences with the War Department. The book is a series of short stories, each describing a mission the title character has been assigned. It strikes me that these would be great scenarios for Pulp Alley, .45 Adventure or similar rules sets. I would think that Artizan could provide suitable figures.
Nick
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If you haven't seen it, Alfred Hitchcock adapted some of Maugham's stories into a film called, confusingly, Secret Agent* starring John Gielgud as Ashenden, with Madeleine Carroll and Peter Lorre as the Hairless Mexican (who, as you can see below, is neither hairless nor a Mexican in this version!). It loses some of the restraint of Maugham's stories and goes for both suspense and action, which might help with adapting the stories to a game format.
There was also a BBC TV series in the early 1990s, but I haven't seen that.
* Confusingly because he then made a film of Joseph Conrad's novel, The Secret Agent, which he had to call Sabotage. And then he made another film called Saboteur. Oh, Hitch, stop messing with our heads!
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I'm aware of the film, but didn;t realize it was an adaptation of Maughm. I will have to look for it.
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Nick,
I too am a big W. Somerset Maughm fan. I love the short stories from this collection, all sorts of Pulp scenarios in the far-flung outposts of Empire. I look forward to seeing where you go with this.
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Possibly nowhere, I just thought it wiuld be smething useful to share.
Steve, I tried to watch "Secret Agent". I am a fan of Hitchcock, but the film varies too much from the book.
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Interesting find. Thanks for the heads up!