No thread for Raymond Chandler?! (s/d, c/d, discuss, whatever)

"Farewell My Lovely" (1975 w Robert Mitchum) is a pretty good adaptation of the same book too

Mike Mazurki was the perfect Moose.

John Wayne was a big Chandler reader.

Marlowe in the novels is a tough guy, not physically a Dick Powell type, but Powell gets the sarcasm across better than Bogart did.

got vol 2 of his Library of America anthology -- read his essay on screenwriting in Hollywood, which is crisp and just weary enough.

oh, huh. what else is in there other than the obvious?

some letters

also an essay on mystery writing

And the screenplay to Double Indemnity, et al.

https://slate.com/culture/2018/07/raymond-chandler-in-the-age-of-metoo.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru

oo, megan abbott!

i think i heard about megan abbott via some ILX thread, and I've really enjoyed her stuff so far!
i just randomly watched the late 70s remake of the Big Sleep starring Mitchum (and a Jimmy Stewart cameo!) — thought at the very least I'd be getting some good late 70s Los Angeles vibes, but it was set (for no apparent reason) in London. Weird. Wouldn't say it was a lost classic by any means, but Mitchum is definitely a pleasure.

The Mitchum Big Sleep was financed by Lew Grade's British production company ITC, and directed by Englishman Michael Winner, so I'm guessing the relocation to London was mainly for budgetary reasons.

never read a good word about that one

really odd how three years before Mitchum played Marlowe in the 1941-set Farewell My Lovely (which is very good iirc) and then hops in a time machine and a plane to tackle a case in London.

i saw The Big Sleep a long time ago, caught some of it on TV. It seemed extremely inessential, to say the least. Mitchum at least was comfortably solid in the role. Better in FML.

it's funny, because they even try to retcon marlowe into London — he says he's been there since "the war" or something.

I think Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes also wound up in the middle of WWII in his film series

He was battling Nazis in at least one film, England recruited everyone in their darkest hour.

His Encore