Before it slips by uncorrected: Chandler worked on the
adaptation of James M. Cain's DOUBLE INDEMNITY. The Hitchcock
movie Chandler worked on was from the Patricia Highsmith
novel.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Thornton"
<tieresias@w...> wrote:
>
> To tell the truth, when I first read the speculation
that
> Chandler didn't like Hammett based on suposition
that the writer
who goes to
> pot in "The Long Goodbye" is some sort of Hammett
strawman, I
thought
> perhaps the poster (Miker? Can't recall which one it
was) might be
> mistaking Chandler's well-documented antipathy for
James M. Cain
(although
> he wasn't above taking a lucrative contract to
adapt
Cain's "Strangers on a
> Train" for Alfred Hitchcock) for some sort of animus
toward
Hammett. All
> I've ever heard about Chandler's attitude towards
Hammett were
words of
> undisguised admiration.
>
> Brian Thornton
>
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