Rare Raymond Chandler Film Cameo

[NOIRTRASH]

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James M.Cain wrote the book, Chandler wrote the movie script.

 

[ChloeTzang]

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James M.Cain wrote the book, Chandler wrote the movie script.

That's so cool. I watched that snippet with Chandler in. Have all his books stacked up waiting to be read.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

That's so cool. I watched that snippet with Chandler in. Have all his books stacked up waiting to be read.

I resisted Chandler forever, and was hooked when I started reading THE BIG SLEEP.

What blew me away was learning that Tampa was as prominent as New York and Los Angeles as detective settings. I use Tampa in my stories but call it Port Desoto. In the 20s-50s Tampa was a tropical-Hispanic paradise in the grips of gangs and organized crime and circus. But I was there in the 50s and have a good memory.

 

[DewMee]

Love Raymond Chandler's Marlowe books. Just read Farewell My Lovely!

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Love Raymond Chandler's Marlowe books. Just read Farewell My Lovely!

TRY THE GIRL is the novella Chandler developed FAREWELL MY LOVELY from. Its the same story just different, the endings are very different. I prefer TRY THE GIRL. Chandler usually wrote the novellas first, then made novels of them. THE BIG SLEEP is a blend of 3 novellas.

 

[ChloeTzang]

TRY THE GIRL is the novella Chandler developed FAREWELL MY LOVELY from. Its the same story just different, the endings are very different. I prefer TRY THE GIRL. Chandler usually wrote the novellas first, then made novels of them. THE BIG SLEEP is a blend of 3 novellas.

Well, I've got Farewell my Lovely and The Big Sleep - dug them out of the pile. After I get my Valentines story done, I shall take a short break and read them.

 

[ishtat]

That's so cool. I watched that snippet with Chandler in. Have all his books stacked up waiting to be read.

The comment that intrigued me was that Chandler overruled Wilder's objections and changed Cain's dialogue for the film. Wilder was no mug with a script but Chandler's genius saw the flaws in this particular application of Cain's genius. Big call by Chandler because Cain's dialogue for the printed page is superb.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The comment that intrigued me was that Chandler overruled Wilder's objections and changed Cain's dialogue for the film. Wilder was no mug with a script but Chandler's genius saw the flaws in this particular application of Cain's genius. Big call by Chandler because Cain's dialogue for the printed page is superb.

And Cain was a script writer!