I am writing about the different endings and how I think which one goes more along the lines of film noir.  The ending in the book has them getting on a ship together because they were going to end up being together but in the end jump of the ship and die together.  The movie ends it with her dying and Huff siting on the ground smoking a cig.  I think that the book ending was a lot more in line with film nior.  In the book it give more of the view that Phylis was more of a bad women.  She goes and tries to get with her daughters boyfriend and then lets him off after she is going to go and be with Huff.  Then when she goes off with Huff and goes on the ship and talks him into jumping and dying with her in the icy water with shark as they feel the moon.  In the movie she seems like she isn't as bad as the book.  She doesn't really try to double cross Huff and she gets shot instead of them dying together.  With the movie it feels like their was justice but in the book their was but not in the traditional sense