Film Adaptation
The novel's version of the main story was adapted to film in 2001 as The Pledge, starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Sean Penn.
Read more about this topic: The Pledge: Requiem For The Detective Novel
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“This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.”
—British Board Of Film Censors. Quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984)
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