Burning Witches
Michael Rogin, 4 September 1997
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,0 7011 6310 0 Show More
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,
Raymond Chandler Speaking
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,0 520 20835 8 Show More
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,
“... you see the film of The Big Sleep,’ Chandler wrote to his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, ‘you will realise what can be done with this sort of story by a director with the gift of atmosphere and the requisite touch of hidden sadism. Bogart, of course, is also so much better than any other tough-guy actor ... Like Edward G. Robinson, all he ... ”