Born on this day – Ovid Demaris:

Ovid Demaris

Writer

September 6, 1919 – March 12, 1998

Credits:

Books:

America the Violent (1970); Brothers in Blood (1977); Candyleg / aka Machine Gun Mccain (1961); Captive City (1969); Dirty Business (1974); Fatal Mistake (1966); J. Edgar Hoover (1994); Jack Ruby (1967); Legs Diamond (1973); Lucky Luciano (1959); Mason's Women (1971); Ricochet (1988); Ride The Gold Mare (1957); The Best Pulp Noir Fiction Super Pack (2020); The Best Pulp Noir Fiction Super Pack 2 (2021); The Best Pulp Noir Fiction Volume Six (2020); The Board-walk Jungle (1986); The Dillinger Story (1961); The Director (1975); The Enforcer (1960); The Extortioners (1960); The Gold-plated Sewer (1960); The Green Felt Jungle (1963); The Hoods Take Over (1957); The Last Mafioso (1980); The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1961); The Long Night (1959); The Lusting Drive (1958); The Organization / aka The Contract (1965); The Overlord (1972); The Parasite (1963); The Slasher (1959); The Toughest Customers (1965); The Vegas Legacy (1984).

Movies and television:

Gang War (1958); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Machine Gun McCain (1969); The Bob McLean Show (1981).

On this day in movie history - Machine Gun McCain (1969 movie & novel):

Machine Gun McCain

Italian title: Gli intoccabili,

English translation: The Untouchables,

directed by Giuliano Montaldo,

written by Mino Roli, Israel Horovitz and Giuliano Montaldo,

based on the novel Candyleg by Ovid Demaris,

was released in Italy on April 1, 1969.
Music by Ennio Morricone.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, Gabriele Ferzetti, Pierluigi Aprà, Luigi Pistilli, Margherita Guzzinati, Claudio Biava, Steffen Zacharias, James Morrison, Florinda Bolkan, Tony Kendall, Salvo Randone, Gena Rowlands, Maria Mizar, Euplio Moscusu, Mirella Pamphili, Raffaele Triggia, Gaetano Imbró, Silvana Bacci, Franco Riti, Jack Ackerman, Annabella Andreoli, Val Avery, Carla Brait, Nat Bush, Ennanno Consolazione, Carol Doda, Dan Gregory, Tery Hare, Werner Hasselmann, Billy Lee, Giuseppina Quinn, Dennis Sallas, Karen Valenti, Bill Vanders.

Recommended reading:

Candyleg

By Ovid Demaris.

Filmed as Machine Gun McCain (1969), directed by Giuliano Montaldo.

Published by Gold Medal Books.

First published 1961.

ASIN: B002M39644

Mass Market Paperback.

Description:

Irene was damaged goods, passed along by the gang and used according to its whims. No one took her seriously, and her life story read like one long dirty joke. She was blonde dynamite, so they gave her the job of warming up Hank McCain, the master thief who'd just spent 20 years cooling his heels in Alcatraz.