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Posts Tagged "Raymond Chandler"

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Time to Kill **** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Ethel Griffies, James Seay, Doris Merrick) – Classic Movie Review 2497

Time to Kill (1942) is the first screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The High Window and the final Michael Shayne film starring Lloyd Nolan made at Fox, which then closed down their popular B-movie […]

May, 17

The Brasher Doubloon [The High Window] **** (1947, George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 2496

Director John Brahm’s 1947 film noir detective thriller The Brasher Doubloon is smart and intriguing, though, even so, it is probably the least good (apart from Michael Winner’s The Big Sleep) and least well-known (apart […]

May, 17

The Unseen *** (1945, Gail Russell, Joel McCrea, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 2278

Director Lewis Allen’s fairly involving, creepy and surprising 1945 chiller is Paramount’s less gripping but still enjoyable follow-up to their previous year’s hit The Uninvited (1944). It reunites the director with star Gail Russell, who this time plays […]

Mar, 18

The Long Goodbye **** (1973, Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 1881

Director Robert Altman’s 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe, […]

Nov, 24

Marlowe **** (1969, James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 1880

The slick and complex 1969 neo-noir thriller film Marlowe stars James Garner as Raymond Chandler’s all-time great LA private eye Philip Marlowe. It also stars Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell […]

Nov, 24

The Blue Dahlia ***** (1946, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Doris Dowling, Howard Da Silva, Tom Powers, Hugh Beaumont, Howard Freeman, Don Costello, Will Wright) – Classic Movie Review 1,012

The great 1946 film noir crime thriller The Blue Dahlia stars Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix, and boasts Raymond Chandler’s first and only original screenplay. Chandler called her ‘Moronica’ Lake and Ladd a […]

Mar, 29

Farewell, My Lovely **** (1975, Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Zerbe, Joe Spinell, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 740

Director Dick Richards just caught Robert Mitchum, aged 58, while he was still in his world-weary prime in 1975 to play classic private eye Philip Marlowe in this enjoyable, taut and atmospheric remake of Raymond […]

Jan, 25

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