Trouble Was His Business — Raymond Chandler

Posted on March 6, 2009 by lmharnisch




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I hate to say it, but as far as I can tell, The Times didn’t review Chandler’s second novel, "Farewell, My Lovely," at left. We did review the 1945 film, however.

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1 Response to Trouble Was His Business — Raymond Chandler

  1. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:
    March 6, 2009 at 11:17 am

    Wonderful to see that the film version of ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ was appreciated in its time. First saw it on TV in the mid fifties, before knowing Dick Powell as boy singer in those Busby Berkeley classics of twenty years before. The seedy morality of Powell rivals that of Bogart and Mitchum. All excellent Chandler actors.
    So much of ‘Farewell’ haunts Polansky’s ‘Chinatown’. that it is evident how much Robert Towne admired Chandler.
    Viva Raymond Chandler.

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