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When in 1943, Chandler first entered Bill Wilder's office to begin collaboration on the script for 'Double Indemnity' (1944), he knew little about the film industry and less about screenwriting. His first draft was literally hurled back at him: "This is s..., Mr. Chandler." He began again. The final script was nominated for an Academy Award. Success came quickly to Chandler, Though during his turbulent years in Hollywood he was to receive screen credit for only five films - among them 'The Blue Dahlia' (1946) and 'Strangers on a Train' (1951). His screenplays, his fiction, and the films based on that fiction rapidly became associated with a style that French critics were to baptize 'film noir'. Before the Forties were over, there were six films based upon his novels and they included such now recognized classics as Edward Dmytryk's 'Murder, My Sweet' (1944), Howard Hawks's 'The Big Sleep' (1946) - scripted in part by William Faulkner - and Robert Montgomery's 'Lady in the Lake' (1947). In the years that followed, new filmmakers were drawn to Chandler's seven novels as source material. Now in the Eighties it seems likely that we will see new screen reinterpretations of Chandler's sp

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Author

William G. Luhr

Publisher

Frederick Ungar Publishing Co

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804425568

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Art, Mystery

Rating

3.2 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14