Raymond Chandler is "The Big Sleep" (1946), by Howard Hawks, with Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe. William Faulkner was a co-writer of the screenplay. Chandler's few screenwriting efforts and the cinematic adaptation of his novels proved stylistically and thematically influential on the American "film noir" genre. Notable for its revised take on both the Marlowe character, transplanting the novel to the 1970s, is Robert Altman's 1973 neo-noir adaptation of "The Long Goodbye". Chandler was also a perceptive critic of detective fiction; his essay "The Simple Art of Murder" is the canonical essay in the field. Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23,
The Last Days of American Crime The Last Days of American Crime The Last Days of American Crime is an upcoming American action crime thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton from a screenplay written by Karl Gajdusek. It stars Edgar Ramirez, Anna Brewster, Michael Pitt, and Sharlto Copley and is based on Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini’s 2009 graphic novel of the same name. On July 27, 2018, it was announced that Edgar Ramirez would star as a career criminal Graham Bricke in the crime thriller film adaptation of the comic book "The Last Days of American Crime" by Rick Remender, which would be directed by