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The Shooting Script

by Laurence Klavan
Nick Sullivan
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Roy Milano, a self-described movie detective who is devoted to finding, hoarding, and reciting arcane information about films, once again stumbles into a murder case - this one centering on a copy of Jerry Lewis's infamous uncompleted film, The Day the Clown Cried, shot in Sweden in 1972. Though rough cuts were apparently screened for the filmmaker's colleagues and Hollywood insiders, the movie was quickly suppressed and never exhibited to the general public or to any critic or film historian. And now certain cinema buffs are ready to kill to possess that elusive footage. It's up to Roy to save the day, and the film, before everything unspools.

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  • Release date

    August 29, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792741077
      • File size: 211858 KB
      • Duration: 07:21:22

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      THE CUTTING ROOM, Laurence Klavan's first adventure of film-freak turned investigator Roy Milano, was a fresh twist on the detective drama in which Milano tracked down the world's most valuable lost film. Klavan's latest work has an unkempt plot, heavy on atmosphere and light on logic. In it, Milano becomes embroiled in a series of murders while trying to track down the second most valuable lost film, Jerry Lewis's 1972 dark drama THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED. Sensing a pattern? The work is performed beautifully, but reader Nick Sullivan does not have a lot to work with. His delivery is flawless, but even his skills cannot rescue this illogical saga from mediocrity. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 14, 2005
      A whirlwind of movie trivia whips up Klavan's (The Cutting Room
      ) second hyperactive, hilarious yarn starring Roy Milano, the hardcore film fanatic last seen gleefully pursuing Orson Welles's lost treasure The Magnificent Ambersons
      . But Roy is now facing desperate times as a walking billboard for the Union Square Farmer's Market to pay for his suddenly mute mother's convalescence. Roy's unrewarding pavement pounding brings him face to face with the ultimate "trivial person success story," arrogant Abner Cooley, who brags he's been commissioned to write a script for the 12-part cult fantasy novel The Seven Ordeals of Quelman
      . Abner's stroke of fortune has made him a target for fanatic Quelman
      fans, one of whom is trying to kill him. Abner hires Roy to find his attacker, but Roy is soon sidetracked by the prospect of obtaining a priceless copy of Jerry Lewis's unreleased Nazi drama The Day the Clown Cried
      . The plot thickens when Roy finds the movie's owner, Ted Savitch, dead of a heart attack—or was it murder? A retired television star, Savitch's daughter, Dena, and a whole gaggle of oddballs sweep Roy from Manhattan to the Hamptons, on to Los Angeles and a bicycle built for two in Amsterdam, and all the while he's dodging bullets and Oscar statuettes in hectic hot pursuit of the elusive stolen videotape. A gratifying ending drops the curtain on this wholly entertaining sequel: a frenzied encore for suspense fans and an edifying indulgence for seasoned film buffs. Agent, Victoria Sanders.

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