From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Office Mitchell. We, of course, know the writer-director,

Scott Frank, who was last year in 2007,

this film, his directorial debut, The Lookout, but his career as a writer goes way back to a little film

about an undercover cop at a high school.

Oh, man, you had to bring that one up, didn't you?

Yes, I did, but he's done so many great adaptations, of course, Minority Report and Get Shorty.

His newest film is an adaptation of the Lawrence Block novel, A Walk Through the Tombstones, and Matthew Scudderbook.

Scott, first of all, so good to have you back.

Thanks for having me.

And let's talk about a walk through the tombstones.

First of all, let the audience know what the film's about.

Should we go back and correct? Because it's a walk among the tombstones. First of all, let the audience know what the film's about. Should we go back and correct?

It's a walk among the tombstones.

Yes, we should correct.

Okay.

A walk through the tombstones is a western.

A walk among the tombstones is the Matthew Scudder.

And, of course, the studio wanted me to take away the A.

Walk among the stones.

It's like a 50s do-up song. If we could walk among the tombstones again, please tell us about a walk among the tombstones.

It is the story, it's a very old school private eye, New York private eye story,

...