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What does it take for a movie to become more successful and memorable than the book it was adapted from? If the writing duo Boileau-Narcejac's The Living and the Dead is talked about today, it is rarely without a mention of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) (also applies to another great movie based on a Boileau-Narcejac novel, Les Diaboliques [1955]). Where the former's first half meanders tediously and overall never takes flight as a psychological story or a mystery story or whatever it wants
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